There it is in all it’s glory. Classic album. Classic album cover, designed by Zombart JK, who has also done album artwork for DJ Jazzy Jeff. It inspired everything from Q-Tip’s rhymes, to cool kids, to Nike SB kicks, which makes it this week’s Artwork of the Week.
With his guerrilla interviews of everyone from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z, Canadian-born celebrity interviewer Nardwuar has definitely made a name for himself. Here he interviews one of hip-hop’s biggest talents at South x Southwest 2012: Kendrick Lamar.
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Lately we’ve been picking out some of our favorite album cover art of all time. The Strokes have always been known for their usage of some pretty elaborate artwork for their album covers, in this case the artwork for Room on Fire.
A little bit of Internet research reveals that the album cover is actually a derivative of the original, done by the English artist Peter Phillips:
War/Game. 1961.
Slightly different than the album cover, but it definitely brings out the sentiments of the music. Rich, dark colors hypnotically arranged on tile mosaics and juxtapose with gunplay. The Strokes always make you feel like that–a little grime. a little anger. That one of a kind New York-style Cool.
