Featuring 21 designers and studios passionate about music, this collection showcases the best in album design across a myriad of genres. Paired with insightful interviews and essays, the projects in Behind the Album illustrate each designer's vision from concept to cover.

Includes designers such as:

• Lawrence Azerrad – Has designed albums for top acts such as Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication) and Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and also wrote the foreword to the book.

• Stefan Sagmeister – No contemporary survey would be complete without the inclusion of Sagmeister’s stunning album cover designs for Lou Reed, David Byrne, The Rolling Stones and beyond.

• Aubrey Powell – Much of Powell’s best known work is photographically motivated (Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap), but perhaps his best known, most recognized cover for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was a brilliant response to the band’s dictate of a design with NO Photography.

• Pilar Zeta – She started from a digital synthetic style of design, but realized her breakout opportunity by designing Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams by taking a collaborative handmade organic approach with the band’s input.

• Although Weirdcore is inextricably linked to the bizarre stylings of Aphex Twins, his conceptual work for acts such as Le Dom and Dopplereffekt are equally impactful.

• Michael Cina’s cerebral, impressionistic works for Ghostly Records is beyond description, see it for yourself within these pages.

Hardcover: Approx. 10" L x 8" W (2 lbs) 224 pages