10 Creative CD Cover Designs For Your Inspiration

While CDs are no longer part of today’s music world, remember how cleverly designed they used to be? With the limited area and circular canvas, creating unique and attractive CD cover designs was quite a hassle.

As with any other creative field, music blends wonderfully with design when it comes to creating appealing album covers. That’s why you will find music CD covers with fantastic graphics, cartoons, type treatment, photo manipulations, drawings, paintings, and more.

The cover usually illustrates the feelings the artist wants to transmit with his music, and it often takes a very personal approach.

Here are some awesome music CD cover designs to inspire you and spark some creativity. Some are known, and some are not, but they are all great! Read ahead and enjoy.

1. Kanye West – Graduation Album Cover

2. Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple Album Cover

3. Lily Allen – Alright, Still Album Cover

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4. Menomena – Friend & Foe

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5. Stuck In Travel CD Cover

6. Ephemer – WIP

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7. Neraida CD Cover

8. ZZK Vol.2 CD Design Covers

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9. Celebration Album CD Artwork

10. CD Artwork By Andy Warhol For The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Aren’t these covers unique and full of inspiration? You can see how the music influences the emotions of the CD cover designs.

While CDs may not be popular today, looking at these cover designs might give you some creative inspiration. Working with a small space and creating a meaningful design for the artist and the album is quite a task.

But the above artists seem to have nailed it with their spectacular designs. Which one did you like? Let us know in the comments below, and share more CD artwork you have seen.

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