February 28, 2009

Covers, best & worst

The CD Cover Meme is pretty terrific, challenging you to combine randomly selected Wikipedia topics, quotations, and images from Flickr into album covers. Check out some of the results. (Here’s my personal fave of the moment.) [Via Kent Christiansen]

Elsewhere in cover-land:

• Joseph Sullivan from the NY Times shares his Favorite Book Covers of 2008.
• Pitchfork offers a funny take on The 20 Worst Album Covers of 2008. (Hey man, I like the Death Cab piece.)
• Sans value judgements, The Book Cover Archive offers up a trove of inspiration.
• Cedillas + Op Art = 60′s & 70′s Brazilian Album Covers
• There’s tons to love in this Ode To Criterion Box Art.