The folks over at Ear Candy Mag have posted a very cool collection of “Alternate Universe Album Covers.”
Created by graphic designer Jon Hunt, former co-creator of Beach Boys fan site Smile Shop, they imagine what albums that never were might have looked like, right down to the cellophane wrap and stickers.
Two samples of special interest to Floyd fans are below: Hunt’s re-imagining of “The Wall,” if it had been done by Storm Thorgerson; and art for the abandoned “Household Objects” project.
See more of his work covering The Who, The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys and others.
Good stuff – the link doesn’t seem to be working though! Did it move?
LOVE the “Household Objects” album cover!
Wouldn’t it be awesome, if EMI brought out another box set that put together more stuff from those sessions and used this as a cover for it!
GOOD stuff!!
The Household Objects cover is right on the money. However – had Storm done the Wall like this , I am pretty sure the beach would have been littered with tanks and men and the sea probably with landing craft – all real!!! Good stuff.
I like them both but don’t think Storm would have done The Wall that way. The references are a bit too direct. Look at WYWH, TDB, or MLOR. None of them directly mention burning men on a movie backlot, huge metal sculptures in a field, or thousands of beds on a coast.
@Ed: Links seems to be working fine
@Ian: Good point! Cool as it is, Storm probably would have come out of left field with something much less expected.