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Encyclopedia > Cover art
Example of book cover art.
Example of book cover art.

Cover art is the illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book, magazine, product package, video game, DVD, CD, videotape, audio album, manual or brochure. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1420x1023, 734 KB) The full cover of Douglas Couplands City of Glass. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1420x1023, 734 KB) The full cover of Douglas Couplands City of Glass. ... Illustration by Jesse Wilcox Smith. ... A sepia-toned photograph taken in England in 1895 U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945 Peter Leibings photograph of Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on August 15, 1961 Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag on the surface of the... A chained book in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University A Chinese bamboo book, in a collection at the University of California, Riverside. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a cultural phenomenon. ... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ...


One type of cover art is that of CDs or DVDs. Most notable of this category would be album art, referring specifically to artwork created for a music album. Among the most noted are those by Pink Floyd, especially The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. An album cover is a cover used to package commercial audio recordings such as the printed cardboard covers that were typically used to package 12 gramophone records from the 1960s through to the 1980s when the 12 record was the major format for distribution of popular music. ... The Mona Lisa Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ... The Dark Side of the Moon (titled in the 1993 CD release as Dark Side of the Moon) is a concept album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released in 1973. ... Wish You Were Here is the name of: Wish You Were Here (album), a 1975 album by Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here (1975 song), a song included in that album Wish You Were Here (Rednex song), a song by Rednex Wish You Were Here (musical), a 1952 Broadway musical...

Album artwork from Richard Devine's Cautella. Artwork by Keep Adding, Sublight Records 2005.
Album artwork from Richard Devine's Cautella. Artwork by Keep Adding, Sublight Records 2005.

Image File history File links Cautella_keepadding. ... Image File history File links Cautella_keepadding. ... Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. ... Keep Adding is an artist group formed in the year 2001. ...

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Cover Art | Author Guidelines | BioTechniques® (112 words)
Cover candidates should be images of high scientific quality and aesthetic appeal, accompanied by a caption of up to 50 words.
Covers do not have to be associated with a manuscript, although some preference will be given to those that are.
Images used on the cover of BioTechniques are entered in the annual cover competition, in which one winner is selected by readers and awarded a $1000 cash prize.
Cover Art (403 words)
Art Chantry, the 43-year-old graphic designer who's been called the "monarch of messy" and the "master of grunge," always wanted to be an archaeologist.
Chantry's posters and record covers in the early '90s for a then-fledgling Sub Pop label and, more recently, for garage-rock label Estrus Records, are adding up to a vernacular of his own: a glorification of middle-American "low art" sensibilities which has been called "unslick" by fans and "ugly" by detractors.
In town to speak at the American Institute of Graphic Arts' Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs (a one-day exhibition showcasing the best in CD design from the past five years), Chantry knows a thing or two about the importance of packaging, in the music industry and beyond.
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