23 cool illustration style J-pop CD cover art
24.09.08Filed Under: Art & Design, J-Pop
Today we are going to appreciate the beauty of illustration style Japanese music CD cover art. CD cover art is something unique, some covers are designed to reflect the music styles and atmosphere, and some are to portray the personality of the music artists or groups. Many of them are using illustration instead of using their own appearance to design the CD covers, and it does giving an artistic sense of the artist itself. This also shows that art and music are inseparable!
Various illustration style can be apply to the cover design, for example some using clean vector style, and some are using hand drawing to illustrate the cover. Plus, it does not restricted only Japanese Pop music, many other music genres also using illustration style especially rock/alternative music. Well I don’t want to touch much on anime related soundtracks, because most of them are illustrated! Ok, below are the 23 covers selected by me.
Well this is it. I hope you like some of those cover designs. To check out the larger versions of the cover, I created a Flickr sets to store all these nice covers above and will upload more J-pop nice illustration style CD covers in the future.
Credits: Amazon JP, j-pop.cn
Muramasa always has awesome cover art, but no Asian Kung-Fu Generation? They always have such awesome covers♥
September 25th, 2008 at 3:44 pmYeah, murasama’s cover arts are nice. Ok, will check out AKF’s stuff. Thanks for suggeestion.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:22 amSome great cover art and I like the レインブック one
and all YMCK covers rock 
October 1st, 2008 at 1:55 pmА чё, неплохо.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:45 amhello,i majored in design.i love these.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:24 ami.yoho.cn/joyleung
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hye,love all the cover art!hope we can keep in touch so that we can share our interest..;p
June 5th, 2009 at 11:40 pm