John Bergĭuring the sixties and seventies John Berg had a great impact on sleeve art. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1969. Peter Blake and Jann Haworth won the price for Sgt. Voormann won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts.
The latter designed by Klaus Voormann, which combined line drawing with a photo collage. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road, and Revolver. The Beatles manage to add new ideas to the art of creating iconic sleeve art with several of their studio albums, like Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolver Let us just mention a few artists and creators that will always be remembered for their art works. Some have managed to find that extraordinary that makes a cover art iconic – and some have, of course, failed miserably.
Sleeve art or album covers plays a significant role in the success of a music album and was, perhaps, even more important when albums was released in vinyl and large sleeves.īut the cover art of music albums still challenges artists and record companies to search for something that can attract a new audience and become memorable.