"Depending on where you view the image from, it can go in and out of focus," he explains. This is the one for Drakes Thank Me Later. The reflective materials give his pop art a magazine-shoot high sheen at the same time as producing an unsettling distortion effect. It's there for the rest of his life, so fingers crossed he really likes it." Inspired by a picture of Kate Moss in a magazine, Normansell began to apply his spot technique to portraiture a couple of years ago, rendering his famous subjects in thousands of meticulously applied dots of gloss paint on aluminium sheets. "It's quite bizarre that someone's got a tattoo of my work on them. One particularly keen collector bought a painting and asked the artist to design a tattoo based around it in 2004. Cause Im the only reason youre together Im the reason that you have it better Really all Im saying is You can thank me You can thank me later Youre the reason that. Normansell graduated from the University of Central England in 2001 and started out producing abstract paintings which were snapped up by, among others, Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong and British Airways. Flowers was, apparently, particularly keen on pastels. From there, it was a slow process of getting the colours just right. It is not, as one blogger has suggested, "a depiction of the place Brandon went to kill the animal he wore on his shoulders in the promo pics".
The cover for Day & Age went through a month of negotiations and several versions – including a cluster of palm trees and a Mexican ruin – were rejected before the band happened upon an old photograph of a nocturnal desert scene which appealed to their Nevada roots. As time went on, he was commissioned to do the front cover and individual portraits of the four band members, too, all in his trademark colour-spot style which echoes the band's own dot-matrix logo. Nevertheless, the band spotted Normansell's mosaic-inspired portrait of Kate Moss in GQ magazine in May and within a month had called him up to ask him to create the back cover for their latest album, Day & Age. It's a long way from the Birmingham dormitory town, whose most famous musical sons are the long-forgotten Ocean Colour Scene and Ritchie Neville from the boy-band Five, to Las Vegas – the city of sin and birthplace of The Killers. "At first I thought, 'someone's having me on'," says the 30-year-old artist from Solihull. It may not be safe to judge an album by its cover, but there's nothing wrong with pitting some of these against each other to see what's really resonating in our culture.Paul Normansell thought it was a joke when he took a phone call from The Killers' manager, asking him to design the cover art for the band's third album. This makes a great gift idea, especially if you dig out an old cassette player or a boombox.
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You can judge a rap album cover by its design, concept, story, or eventual reception, and all of these were the criteria for choosing and ranking The 50 Best Rap Album Covers of the Past Five Years. From ‘Thank Me Later’ to ‘Nothing Was the Same’ to ‘Scorpion’ to ‘Certified Lover Boy,’ we ranked Drake’s albums and mixtapes from worst to best. It was hard to top the covers for So Far Gone, Thank Me Later, and Take Care, but Drake just might have.ĭid the Nothing Was The Same cover match up to some of the best album covers in recent memory, though? It's hard to say. As we learned from talking to the artist who painted both the regular and deluxe versions, Kadir Nelson, it's a cover that means a lot to Drake and mirrors his introspection on the album. Today is the official release day for Drake's new album Nothing Was The Same.