KUBIIK: Bych teda čekal, že příklad dobře udělaného obalu z knihy Jazyk grafického designu dostane víc než -1, ale proti gustu...

Sugarcult - Start Static (2001)

Start Static is the third full length album released by alternative rock / punk rock band Sugarcult, released on August 21, 2001 by Rumbo Records. It was their first album to receive mainstream success.

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)

Good News for People Who Love Bad News is the fourth full-length album recorded by indie rock band Modest Mouse.
The album was released by Epic Records on April 6, 2004 on both CD and 180g/m² vinyl record. It was rereleased on DualDisc on October 11, 2005. The art and design of the album was done by Houston ( http://www.wehaveaproblem.com/ ).

Four Tet - Fabriclive 59 (2011)

A strong photographic cover for this episode in the compilation mix serie from Fabric, already responsible for a great number of interesting cover designs. Beyond the photography (from Roberto Kusterle's serie "Rites Of The Body" http://www.robertokusterle.it/ ), the typowork here is also worth a glance.

Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)

An illustrated theme for the self-titled album from Bon Iver, released on 4AD. The album is available as CD and LP, both with gatefold cover. The design is from Daniel Murphy, and the paintings from Gregory Euclide.

Junior Boys - It's All True (2011)

Avoiding any cheesy reference to the famous docu-fiction of Orson Welles the title could have suggested, the It's All True album of Junior Boys pays tribute in this cover to the city of Shanghai were the duo composed the songs : the image is a close-up of the British pavillon at the Expo in Shanghai. The cleverly spaced typography contributes to the zen atmosphere of the ensemble. The artwork is from Errol F. Richardson.

David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time (2011)

The Crazy Clown Time album from David Lynch was released in 2011 on Play It Again Sam. While the general art direction is from the master himself, it comes with a sleeve design from Vaughan Oliver and Chris Bigg, just like Lynch's previous album.

Debutová eponymní deska Laibach (1985):

Pterodactyl - Spills Out (2011)

A great artwork on Jagjaguwar Records, this time for the album of Pterodactyl, an brooklyn-based indie noisy punk band. For the cover art the band re-tapped the designer for their 2010 vinyl-only EP, Arnold's Park: a brilliant young artist called Otecki, from the small city of Wroclaw, Poland.

2562 - Fever (2011)

A refreshing sleeve, as much as a nice concept. The idea behind the music was that 2562 used sounds, extracts and samples from his 70' and 80' Disco collection, treat them and combine them in order to forge an hommage to the original 4x4 stylistic elements, but twisting them through the Dubstep, Post Garage the Techno musical techniques of our time. Logically, the artwork expresses his fascination for the era, and shows him as the boy he was back then. The picture is credited to Hans Huismans, presumably his father.
The treatment of the image has the delicate color balance of an old picture, and subtlely evocates nostalgia, without the excess of the Instagram fashion.

Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (2010)

A Sufi and a Killer was realesed in March, 2010 with its intensely graphic psychedelia, which was the work of Michael Raymond Russel, aka MRR. Avoiding the easy paths of the indian inspiration behind Sumac Valentine's music, and giving such an austere yet rewarding visual experience was a coup de maitre, and MRR created here a truly captivating object that do what the best sleeves has to : being a companion for the music, that inspires the listener, and not a mere illustration of the idea or concept of the piece.

NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo (1996)

The cover art for Heavy Petting Zoo, by illustrator Mark deSalvo, depicts a man sexually touching a sheep. The LP version was even more graphic, showing the same man and sheep, except in Position 69. The title itself is a play on words, with the phrases heavy petting and petting zoo combined to suggest taboo human-to-animal interactions. The alternate LP title, Eating Lamb, suggests both regular eating and the slang use that means performing oral sex, and the cover art shows a human "eating [a] lamb" in the latter sense.