These are some examples of impressive video game and comic book concept art.

BATMAN (DC/Rocksteady Studios)

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ASSASSIN’S CREED (Ubisoft)

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BIOSHOCK (2K/Irrational Games)

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DEAD SPACE (Visceral Games/EA)

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FINAL FANTASY Series (Square Enix)

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GEARS OF WAR (Epic Games/Microsoft)

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HALO (Ensemble Studios/Microsoft)

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MASS EFFECT (Bioware/EA)

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MONSTER HUNTER (Capcom)

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PROTOTYPE (Radical Entertainment/Activision)

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YTD takes part in the Beer Can Appreciation Day celebration with this collection of 35 tasteful beer can designs. Check them out and don’t forget to leave a comment after. Cheers!

Hurlimann Sternbrau

SAA Design
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Intuition Ale Works

DeRouen & Co
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Upslope Brewing Brown Ale

Anthem Branding
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Great Western

Saint Bernadine Mission Communications
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Heineken Rugby World Cup 2011

Raison Pure
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Bulldozer Beer

Firstbase
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Arctic Beer

Tank
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Howe Sound Lager

The Antidote Inc.
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Club Colombia Special Edition

JWT
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Tui Repackaged

DesignWorks
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Glow

Neumeister
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Smrprty

Tank Design
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Abro Organic Lager

Mattias Frodlund
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Austin Beerworks

Helms Workshop
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Pilsner

TAXI
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Vintage Packaging – Beer Cans

Hello Again
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Guinness Beer can re-design

Tamara Maksimovic
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Diesel 6%

Pavel Gubin
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Grolsch Beer Can FC Twente season 2011

Elroy Klee
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“1410″ Beer can design

Ignas Kozlovas
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beer can packaging

Sergey Prostov
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Carling beer brand design

Ingrida Liepyte
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Beer Can Label Design

Gradinar Razvan
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Brøckhouse 33cl Can

Morris Pinewood
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Saku On Ice 0,5L Can

Hannes Paesoo
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Asahi Breweries

Phil Munro
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John Davey’s Cornish Bitter

Pascal de Moratti
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Miller Cans

Tim Pokrichuk
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Three Towns Premium Lager (2009)

Mikael Hulkko
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Hockley Valley Brewing Co.

Andrew Oliver
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Latas tematicas Nova Schin

Fausto Uehara
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Heisenberg Beer

This is
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package design

Tim Murphy
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Negra Modelo

Mauricio Muñoz
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Beer Can Appreciation Day (we’d like to believe) wasn’t just created to give people an excuse to drink more beer. A bit of research about beer cans would tell you that they do deserve our appreciation.

First, beer cans are relatively cheaper than beer bottles. They require minimal energy to produce and most of the materials used in these cans can be reused to manufacture new ones. Second, beer cans do a better job in preserving the beer’s flavor. Aluminum cans prevent beer from getting “skunked” due to exposure from UV light. They are also very durable and contain lower oxygen levels than bottles which increases shelf life. Lastly, the variety of beer can designs makes them perfect collector’s items. And with beer cans that look as good as the ones above, it shouldn’t be a surprise that some people are more interested in the cans than the booze!

This January 16, the world will once again celebrate Martin Luther King Day. As a tribute to the master orator/civil rights icon, we have collected 30 digital artworks that creatively illustrate King’s image and some of the most unforgettable words he uttered. Feel free to share your thoughts about this collection and King’s legacy by leaving a comment.

Remembrance – Martin L. King

PureBear
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martin luther king

lefgozerdesign
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A Great Man Once Said…

Godzilla12356
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Martin Luther King Jr

thefreaks
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- Martin Luther King -

vervex
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

cxard
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Martin Luther King Jr.

Eskipo
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Martin Luther King Jr Mosaic

unremarkedlove
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MLK

Bigboithomas84
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Martin Luther King

icantfindone
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martin luther king jr. in grey

wateradept8
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I Have a Dream

bronze-dragonrider
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The King, The Dream

TheIronLion
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Da Kang

ProjectPeach262
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MLK

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MLK 2

TheCharles
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Famous People Typography

Riyad Hamad
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I Have A Dream

PhotoLife512
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The America That Should Be

LifeisArt91
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Martin Luther King

lilianbourgevin
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DREAM BIG

maddnyss
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Martin Luther King

ecaty
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Individualistic

ModernHippy
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The Dream” Martin Luther King

Jonas Fleuraime
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Martin Luther King Jr.

Ed Deezy
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“King”

Kerry Laster
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He Had A Dream

Maxim Zudilkin
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The Voice of Change

Richie Stutler
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There are millions of light painting photographs. These are just 36 of the best.

Alabama

Photographer: LED Eddie
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Dennis

Photographer: LED Eddie
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They Can’t All Be Zingers

Photographer: Tackyshack
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Light Drawings

Photographer: Eric Staller
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Window Dressing

Photographer: Eric Staller
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Happy Street

Photographer: Eric Staller
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Painted Light Portrait

Photographer: Robert Knapp
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LAPP 2007

Photographer: Lapp-Pro
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LAPP 2007

Photographer: Lapp-Pro
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LAPP 2008

Photographer: Lapp-Pro
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LAPP 2009

Photographer: Lapp-Pro
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Painkiller

Photographer: Janne Parviainen
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Eos

Photographer: Dennis Calvert
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Red vs. Blue

Photographer: Dennis Calvert
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Untitled

Photographer: Dennis Calvert
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Light Painting

Photographer: Donatello Trisolino
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Light Painting

Photographer: Stuart Freeman (Hype Photography Ltd.)
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Light Painting

Photographer: MG/BS4
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Light Painting

Photographer: Samuel Gachet
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For The Love of Light Painting

Photographer: Christine Lam
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Light Painting 2 – Dome

Photographer: Mohammed Al-jawi
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11-11-11 Light Painted

Photographer: Kevin Lajoie
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Light Dresses

Photographer: Maria Elisa Duque
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The Time Turner

Photographer: Ed McGowan
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Ludicrous Tree

Photographer: Dan DeChiaro
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Where Rainbows Play 2

Photographer: David Gilliver
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A Round The Christmas Tree

Photographer: Duane Schoon
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Wanageeska

Photographer: Wes Whaley
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Light Painting – Bike

Photographer: Sampo
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Light Painting

Photographer: Florian Kehrer
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Light Painting The Guitar

Photographer: Syakster
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Dark Water

Photographer: Brian Matthew Hart
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Absurdist Portrait of Dena with Umbrella and Bike

Photographer: Brian Matthew Hart
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Dragonflies 4

Photographer: Jason D. Page
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Midnight Bliss

Photographer: Jason D. Page
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Absolut Glimmer

Photographer: Jimmy X
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“1Q84″ by Haruki Murakami

Designed by Chip Kidd
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“The Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach

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“At the Fights” edited by George Kimball and John Schulian

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“Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell

Designed by Paul Sahre. Illustrations by Brian Rea
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Malcolm Gladwell Collected

Designed by Paul Sahre. Illustrations by Brian Rea
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“Bulletproof… I Wish I Was: The Lighting and Stage Design of Andi Watson” by Christopher Scoates

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“Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne

Brazilian Edition designed by Carlo Giovani
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“A Moment in the Sun” by John Sayles

Designed by Aaron Horkey
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“The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights”

Designed by Coralie Bickford Smith
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“The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories” by HitRecord and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Design by The Made Shop
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Various titles by Oliver Sacks

Cardon Webb
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“The Facts of Winter” by Paul Poissel

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“The Joys of Excess” by Samuel Pepys

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“Recipes from the White Hart Inn” by William Verral

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“Wildwood” by Colin Meloy

Illustrations by Carson Ellis
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“The Free World” by David Bezmogis

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“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

Jacket illustrations by Ivan Brunetti
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“Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef” by Gabrielle Hamilton

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“Mission Street Food” by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz

Illustrations by Walter Green
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“Habibi” by Craig Thompson

Art and design by Craig Thompson
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“The Belief Instinct” by Jesse Bering

Designed by Christopher Brand
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“The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury

Designed by Adam Johnson
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“Beck” by Autumn de Wilde

Cover and book design by Glen Nakasako and Jeri Heiden at Smog Design Inc.
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“And So It Goes” by Charles J Shields

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“Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee” by Megan Boyle

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“Mr. Fox” by Helen Oyeyemi

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“Whole Beast Butchery” by Ryan Farr with Brigit Binns

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“Ghost Lights” by Lydia Millet

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“The Information: A History. A Theory. A Flood.” by James Gleick

Designed by Peter Mendelsund
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“Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” by Touré

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“James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl

Jacket Illustration by Jordan Crane. Illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burket
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“The Tragedy of Arthur” by Arthur Philipps

Designed by Ben Wiseman
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“The Pale King” by David Foster Wallace

Designed by Karen Green
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“Stop the Violence” by Francois Robert

Designed by Thirst
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“A New Ghost” by Robert Hunter

Art and Design by Robert Hunter
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ACIDMAN – And World

Recommended Track: Kisetsu no Tou (????), “Light of the Seasons”

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Japanese minimalism at work? Indeed. ACIDMAN’s simple yet eye-catching and almost kaleidoscopic cover (by frontman/guitarist Ohki Nobuo) is a window of sorts; take a peek at almost every first in your life through these sweetly—and at times painfully—evocative tracks.

Björk – Biophilia 

Recommended Track: Cosmogony

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A visual and musical chameleon, since when has Björk NOT had an interesting album cover? Biophilia’s tracks are at once ethereal and eerie. The cover (by M/M Paris and Inez Vinood, two well-known teams in the field of art direction and fashion photography respectively) portrays Björk in all her cosmic glory.

Blue Sky Black Death – NOIR

Recommended Track: If I Fall Short

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Overexposure in just the right places and a one-word album title in a simple font – Blue Sky Black Death’s vintage LP-reminiscent cover, created by Tim Green from DestroyWerk.com, just kicked up hipster dust and turned it into dandelions in the wind. The tracks are quaint and dreamy – a little like a box of old Polaroid prints, an expired roll of negatives, or perhaps a vintage reel.

The Cinematic Orchestra – Man with a Movie Camera 

Recommended Track: Awakening of a Woman

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Here’s an anthropomorphic personification of a movie camera, solid black on white with a touch of red here and there. The overall simplicity of the cover contrasts greatly with the dramatically flowing tracks contained in this soundtrack to the re-released silent film documentary Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by director Dziga Vertov.

Claude Bolling and Yo-yo Ma – Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio 

Recommended Track: Galop

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Bolling and Ma’s anthropomorphic selves turn the cover into a quirky portrayal of their musical creativity. The album’s six tracks are at once sweet and jaunty, jovial and serene, a walk in the park.

Electro Deluxe – Stardown 

Recommended Track: Point G

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White on black? A definite A+. The modest-looking cover is striking yet unpretentious, devoid of self-aggrandizement, telling you to simply listen to these funky, upbeat urban rhythms.

Julian Velard – Mr. Saturday Night 

Recommended Track: Everybody Wants To Be Famous

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A classy take on scrapbook cut-and-paste! From a Gil Elvgren pinup to a strongman to the Vaudeville Revue, the Mr. Saturday Night album cover’s motley selection of “clippings” is a real retro delight. Julian Velard’s groovy tracks are, true to the cover’s era inspiration, at once playboy feisty and introspective.

Metric – Fantasies 

Recommended Track: Gimme Sympathy

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An idea in the dark, the cover of Fantasies speaks for itself: it’s striking but does not impose, inviting the viewer to use their own imagination; to spark their own plugs, so to speak.  Metric’s tracks are pensive yet danceable, a questioning post-punk revival. As the song goes, who would you rather be: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?

Nujabes – Modal Soul 

Recommended Track: Light on the Land

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An Oriental silk scarf comes to mind; a hand-painted sunrise. The Modal Soul cover is Japanese minimalism at work yet again. Get those creative juices flowing with Nujabes’ easy-on-the-ears tracks.

Nujabes – Modal Soul Classics 

Recommended Track: Iyawo (Omar Sosa)

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Another Nujabes album cover? Why yes, of course, thank you very much! Not so minimalistic this time around, but still incredibly dreamy. Flowers, Southeast Asian tie-dyes, birds and such flow across the cover, akin to Ophelia’s hair in the stream. It may not play up the understated elegance that the Japanese are generally known for, but like the music within the visuals, it takes hold and leaves nothing wanting. Everything is beautiful, emotional, transcendent.

Pretend – Bones in the Soil, Rust in the Oil

Recommended Track: Those Luminous Noises are God

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We should all be like children, they say. This post/math-rock band’s album cover for Bones in the Soil, Rust in the Oil is reminiscent of Quentin Blake’s Roald Dahl illustrations—childlike yet eloquent. The tracks exude a raw, tender melancholy that calls to mind a return to one’s roots.

Parov Stelar – Coco

Recommended Track: Hurt

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Cream and old rose bring an elegantly vintage sophistication to the cover of this nu-jazz album by Parov Stelar. Fusing breakbeat with 40’s jazz samples has never sounded this good. The track “Hurt,” in particular, hints at a noir film, or perhaps a black and white graphic novel featuring a private eye, a sinister mob boss, and a beautiful blonde bombshell with a pocketbook sporting the album cover’s delicate design.

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Recommended Track: Any Colour You Like

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Less is more, or so they say. Simple on the outside, genius on the inside: this Pink Floyd cover art, sporting a prism on a black background, is a rather apt way to describe the iconic band’s music itself.

Mock Orange – Mind is not Brain

Recommended Track: Hawks Can Go

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Adorable doodles on paper and cardboard as well as tiny bits of wood: this odd eye-catching assortment—analogous with the tracks themselves—lends the scrapbook-ish pop-art cover a curious air.

Bon Iver – Bon Iver

Recommended Track: Holocene

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The wonderfully detailed cover on Bon Iver’s self-titled album calls to mind a watercolour postcard, a small precious oil painting hidden behind a thrift store’s usual junk. The tracks evoke a certain kind of nostalgia, triggering the same kind of wanderlust that this cover so delicately implies.

Final Fantasy X – Piano Collections

Recommended Track: Guadosalam

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If you’re a gamer (and most graphic designers are), then I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of the Final Fantasy X Piano Collections. Selected songs from the game composed by Squaresoft’s premiere music composer, Nobuo Uematsu, are rearranged into piano pieces with theme alterations and embellishments woven into the music. The tracks are sweet and at times melancholic. Echoing the album’s motif, the cover shows a piano being carved out of plaster, conjuring a vision of what was intended and what else could still be.

The Bird and the Bee – The Bird and the Bee

Recommended Track: I’m a Broken Heart

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This cover’s idiosyncratic painterly look is the perfect partner to The Bird and The Bee duo’s pleasantly and sweetly quirky sound. In stark contrast to the generic pop star-splattered album covers on every rack in record stores, you’ll end up listening out of curiosity alone at what this package might be hiding. Strategic? Quite.

Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch

Recommended Track: Us

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Matryoshka doll cutouts and a pretty, vodka-swigging Russian pianist in a tank top? The almost-tacky scrapbook approach gives the cover an interesting, almost playful aura, echoing Regina Spektor’s tongue-in-cheek tracks.

The Foreign Exchange – Leave it All Behind

Recommended Track: Sweeter Than You

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A wedding, or a funeral? The cover’s use of ambiguity is certainly thought-provoking. Either way, you leave something behind—give the tracks a listen and decide for yourself.

The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore

Recommended Track: Daphne Descends

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The Smashing Pumpkins’ iconic sound is preceded by a beautiful woman in shadowy makeup on a black and white cover. While this isn’t the first time that this formula has been used, it proves quite suitable for this particular album that features darkly brooding tracks like “Daphne Descends” and the album’s namesake itself, “Ava Adore.”

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Quantic – The 5^th Exotic

Recommended Track: Life in the Rain

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Undeniably crisp. From the clean lines to the colour scheme, Quantic’s album cover is as fresh as their samples.

Radiohead – Hail to the Thief

Recommended Track: Sail to the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs of the Sky)

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The album’s title being a satirical take on the Presidential theme, “Hail to the Chief,” the somewhat rebellious poster-like album art centers on current events and the state of the nation. Radiohead’s cover art attempts to create a depth of national consciousness in tandem with the angrily pensive, sometimes flowing tracks.

Radiohead – The King of Limbs

Recommended Track: Morning Mr. Magpie

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The eerie otherworldly figures dripping down the cover of this iconic band’s new album lends it a dark, slightly unnerving air; in contrast, the trance-like tracks are strangely soothing: unafraid, provoking a certain level of introspection.

School Food Punishment – School Food is Good Food

Recommended Track: Snap

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The clean vector work combined with childlike doodles on this School Food Punishment cover brings a signature Japanese quiddity to life. Just like the cover, the tracks are playful, danceable and easy on the ears without sacrificing that jazz-rock edge.

Sigur Ros – Takk

Recommended Track: Sæglópur

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The ink-on-tea look, while not new, is perfect for the nostalgia-driven content of the album. Just like the Icelandic post-rock group’s music, Takk’s album cover is unassumingly poignant; hauntingly beautiful and at once sweeping and delicate.

Stars – Sad Robots EP

Recommended Track: Undertow

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The somber yet heartwarming feel to the cover echoes the EP’s predominant bittersweet tracks; the steampunk element (coupled with that grainy period look) is aesthetically appealing in an anachronistic manner. Why a sad robot? Setting pop-culture appeal aside, give the EP a listen and maybe you can come up with an answer yourself.

The Album Leaf – One Day I’ll Be On Time

Recommended Track: Story Board

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The Album Leaf’s tracks are meditative, almost therapeutic in their simplicity. In the same manner, the geometric shapes provide an interesting edge to the otherwise incomplete paint strokes on this album’s cover.

Tokyo Jihen – Kyoiku

Recommended Track: Yume no Ato

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The patriotic combination of red and white, along with the origami crane, is signature Tokyo Jihen. Lauded in their own country as well as internationally, the powerhouse band’s sassy tracks with their intricate jazz arrangements provide a playful contrast to the simple yet striking album cover.

Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer?

Recommended Track: Ampersand

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The Who Killed Amanda Palmer? cover resonates the tracks it houses, calling to mind a post-mortem life review. Gently contemplative and uproariously satirical, punk cabaret-inspired Amanda Palmer started this solo career thing right.

The Bad Plus – These are the Vistas

Recommended Track: Heart of Glass

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The Bad Plus’ album cover, consisting of a white robot on a sky blue background, contrasts greatly with the mad tracks housed within. The frisky jazz renditions of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and Nirvana’s “Smells like Teen Spirit?” manage to be eccentric without veering too far from memorable form.

And there you have it—30 offbeat albums’ artistic covers and transcendent sounds for your listening as well as viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoyed going through this selection as much as I enjoyed compiling it for you. For any recommendations of your own, feel free to comment below!