When painter and sculptor Devon DeJardin needs an extra dose of inspiration in his downtown Los Angeles art studio, he likes to put on some rap. Only this isn’t just any regular rap music: “We call it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Vella illustrations from The Curepedia book Think of the alternative rock group The Cure and you'll surely picture Robert ...

The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...

There’s a story that album designer Gary Burden liked to tell about shooting the cover for the Doors’ 1970 classic Morrison Hotel. The manager from the eponymous hotel had refused to let the band ...

Joy Feuer insists that she has always seen the sound of music and the images behind it as inseparable. From the looks of the crowds pouring into the Art of Music Experience at the Orange County Fair ...

For a band with such an unmistakable style—eyeliner, red lipstick, black garb, tousled hair—the Cure, in frontman Robert Smith’s telling, has long resisted iconography. “I don’t want to be known for ...

Following the global success of “Creep” from their debut album Pablo Honey, York invited Donwood to design cover art for Radiohead’s EP, My Iron Lung (1994). Donwood accepted because he knew and liked ...

Billy White Jr. the tattoo artist who designed the iconic cross image on the cover of Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut album Appetite For Destruction has died. “RIP Billy White Jr. OG designer of GNR cross ...

Frank Kozik, an acclaimed graphic designer and visual artist whose work graced album covers from The Offspring, Queens of the Stone Age, the Melvins and many more, died at 61 last Saturday (May 6), ...

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