Virgil Abloh Album Cover Designs Memes
From the classical art of caravaggio for the westside gunn album to the surrealist butterflies double quote to the silence of the lambs.
Virgil abloh album cover designs memes. Hey virgil we need new album. Update june 30 2020. In a since deleted instagram post abloh touched on the design cues and said he had. Abloh though will get another chance to design the cover according to 50 cent who helped executive produce shoot for the stars aim for the moon after pop died.
Love ya work let s get to it. The last conversation i had with realpopsmoke was about what we we were gonna to do in the future. Pop smoke s label unveiled the album cover for the late rapper s upcoming posthumous album designed by designer virgil abloh but fans of the artist hated the artwork so much the label is having to go back to the drawing board. Virgil abloh is credited as the art director for kanye west s 2010 album my beautiful dark twisted fantasy the designer was the one who picked artist george condo to paint several different.
Abloh though will get another chance to design the cover according to 50 cent who helped executive produce shoot for the stars aim for the moon after pop died hey virgil we need new album art they ain t going for this bullshit 50 cent wrote on twitter. As evident of the whole idea the t shirt insinuates it s. In your memory i just finished it yesterday. Abloh s mind conceived the artwork of many of kanye west s albums and even the cover of watch the throne officially designed by riccardo tisci was created under his supervision all the artworks have aesthetic elements that recall his artistic obsessions.
Following a barrage of online backlash virgil abloh took to instagram to explain the creative inspiration behind his design for pop smoke s debut album shoot for the. Art cover virgil abloh made for his album. You wanted virgil to design your album cover and lead creative. First his name became synonymous with fifty after he screenshot evidence of himself giving all of 50 to support protests against racial violence.
Virgil abloh keeps racking up ls in 2020. Abloh s cover art for pop smoke s posthumous album shoot for the stars was unveiled yesterday only to be mocked so overwhelmingly that the late rapper s team quickly announced it ll be revised. This album cover was one of like 5 things we talked about. He mentioned his story felt like the metaphor of a rose thorns growing from concrete of of his hood in canarsie brooklyn.