Nexus creates AR Christmas greeting for the US White House
Nexus Interactive Arts has created a festive AR experience for the US White House, which brings an animated version of the building to life on a dollar bill
Nexus Interactive Arts has created a festive AR experience for the US White House, which brings an animated version of the building to life on a dollar bill
A new photo book by Hoxton Mini Press focuses on a subject often experienced but rarely discussed: the night bus.
Webber Represents is to auction works by 16 photographers with all the money going towards Refugee Support Europe, a charity that responds to the migrant crisis
The National Portrait Gallery’s Eggleston show raised many issues — about the history of photography, the nature of portraiture and so much more — that it was a natural choice to be our photography exhibition of the year, says Eliza Williams
Parquet Courts vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Andrew Savage has designed covers for each of the band’s three albums. He repurposed a Chinese take-away menu for the cover of American Specialties and used an image of a man riding a bull for its follow-up, Light Up Gold. The cover of Human Performance features a painting titled Seizure […]
The mysterious symbols on the cover of Bon Iver’s album 22, A Million were created by Brooklyn-based artist Eric Timothy Carlson. Carlson created a numerical symbol for each track on the album, with his artwork informing some of the final track names. The symbol for 21 Moon Water, for example, is based on the astronomical […]
In the 1990s, Earl Brutus gained a cult following for their raucous live shows, provocative album art and unusual mix of punk, glam rock and electronica. Scott King’s Closed box set for the band perfectly captures their eccentricity and aesthetic. It’s everything a commemorative box set should be – a beautifully produced and loving homage […]
Aphex Twin’s Cheetah EP was made using 1980s technology manufactured by British company Cheetah. Warp premiered the album at a music convention in Nashville this summer, setting up a listening station laid out like a product demo stand with a Cheetah MS800 synthesiser displayed in plexiglass. The album’s artwork was created by The Designers Republic […]
Stanley Donwood has created some brilliant covers for Radiohead and A Moon Shaped Pool is no exception. The deluxe edition of the album comes with 32 pages of artwork and is packaged with a piece of original master tape from a Radiohead recording session. The artwork was created using huge canvases which were exposed to […]
The vinyl edition of Nicolas Jaar’s album Sirens comes with a scratch-off cover. The sleeve is coated in a white ink similar to the kind found on scratchcards and supplied with a quarter, which can be used to scratch off the coating. Underneath is an image of A Logo for America – a provocative artwork […]
The vibrant artwork for the debut album by Haitian-Canadian DJ and producer Kaytranada (AKA Louis Kevin Celestin) was created by Spanish illustrator Ricardo Cavolo. Cavolo was asked to create a portrait of Kaytranada and incorporate a series of symbols, including aeroplanes, a broken heart and a storm. “I think he was leaving a darker time […]
On August 19, Frank Ocean dropped a 45-minute visual album and a beautiful video for the track Nikes directed by Tyrone Lebon. The following day, he released his much-anticipated second album Blond (also referred to as Blonde), giving copies away for free at pop-up stores in London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The album […]