Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Roasted Swan]

We have gone from "worst looking CD/LP artwork" to "graphic designers are lazy and lack creativity."

I suspect with this Elgar 3 the idea - perhaps a lame play on words - was the the "negative" image was of the existing sketches played without Payne's elaborations and the standard photograph of the complete Symphony was after the negative had been "developed"?? [doesn't make it a good cover image mind!]

[AnotherSpin]

The chap on the cover is clearly Kepler. In his right hand he holds a stick with his own head impaled on it; in his left, something that at first glance looks like chopsticks, though it's rather more likely some antique astronomical contraption.

His head and hands float about independently against a star-strewn sky. All of which, in its own whimsical way, ties in rather nicely with the notion that our bodily sensations are fleeting and disjointed, while the idea of the body as a whole and unchanging is nothing more than a construct of the mind.

[SimonNZ]

The chap on the cover is clearly Kepler. In his right hand he holds a stick with his own head impaled on it; in his left, something that at first glance looks like chopsticks, though it's rather more likely some antique astronomical contraption.

His head and hands float about independently against a star-strewn sky. All of which, in its own whimsical way, ties in rather nicely with the notion that our bodily sensations are fleeting and disjointed, while the idea of the body as a whole and unchanging is nothing more than a construct of the mind.

A drawing compass, I assume. You didn't use one in school?

[AnotherSpin]

A drawing compass, I assume. You didn't use one in school?

Yes, I had compasses when I was a child, different kinds: measuring ones with two needles at the ends, and drawing ones with a needle and a lead. In our school curriculum, drafting held quite a prominent place.