1000 Record Covers

1000 Record CoversRecord covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand forAndy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. This edition of Record Covers presents a

Sigur Rós and Ágætis byrjun

on a table

Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different

silver & gold colours

The work of William Kentridge (born 1955) has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s

The other player can’t see the question

soft terry knit ears and a high contrast blue and white handle

While the three artists collected here share a wide set of historical touchstones

A cheeky little number with curves for days

The flexi cover celebrates the historical charm of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours—the influential colour classification system famously used by pioneers like Charles Darwin to describe the natural world with accuracy and poetry

A perfect instrument to discover the marching band

Whether you’re reading a book