Alex Steinweiss

Also known as the man who invented the album cover. He definitely took another aspect of music and made it marketable... and not in a bad way either. If anything, I truly believe music provokes visuals. That's just the type of humans most of us are. We listen to something that is gracing our ears wonderfully, and we can't help but close our eyes and imagine some sort of visual accompaniment. The development and evolution of the album cover is what helps listeners and fans gain a greater perspective into what kind of people or person this is that is producing this music.

Here are a few album covers of Alex Steinweiss':



And here are a few album covers of some recent bands that are out today:

and Radio Head

You can definitely see a lot of Alex's influence. The big chunky and random shapes, like the triangles used in the Keane album. The typography that is used is very simple sans fonts, some look hand written... What I like about these album themes is that it uses very primary and basic colors, and it doesn't look like it really has a color scheme that it follows. It's still very eye catching and appealing.