Album design

Today I took the picture I'm using for the album cover. While I was researching what size an album cover is I found an interesting article about how designing album art has changed. In the past people had a larger canvas to work on, because the record sleeve would have been a bigger image (Vinyl LP cover: 153.1 square inches), whereas right now, most people will see album artwork on the screen of their iPod (iPod Nano Cover Flow icon: 0.4 square inch). Due to this, more and more albums have much more minimalist covers, with a simple design, usually using bold colours that stand out together, making them easily recognisable on a small screen. Some examples:






















































This kind of made me think about my cover design, and I think I'll definitely take this info on board in future projects.


The article in question.
http://www.wired.com/culture/design/magazine/17-03/dp_recordart