Album tArt Blog

Lovely album art inspired Stop Motion piece for VH1 by Alexey...

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:38:26 -0400

Lovely album art inspired Stop Motion piece for VH1 by Alexey Astafiev

Not a bad selection of albums either:
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Destroyer by KISS
Nevermind by Nirvana
Under the Iron Sea by Keane
Britney by Britney Spears (CLASSIC!)
Abbey Road by The Beatles
Life in Cartoon Motion by Mika
Confessions on a Dance Floor by Madonna

More Album tArt design inspiration. Rows and rows and rows of...

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:45:43 -0400

More Album tArt design inspiration. Rows and rows and rows of album art to discover and inspire! Nothing beats the real thing, hopefully Album tArt will fill the digital fix between visits to your local record shop.

- Jason Powers

Design inspiration for Album tArt. We wanted to capture a taste...

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:41:41 -0400

Design inspiration for Album tArt. We wanted to capture a taste of flipping through bins at the hip record shop that had the best stuff.

- Jason Powers

MTV loves Album tArt!

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:58:00 -0400

MTV loves Album tArt!:

Some of the fine folks at MTV saw our presentation at the Facebook Developer Garage NYC and gave us a lovely write-up on their blog. I love being sandwiched between Amy Winehouse and America’s Best Dance Crew. A life long dream has finally been fulfilled.

- Steve J Baughman

Demoing our new Facebook application

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:56:00 -0400

On Tuesday, June 24th, we will be talking about our new Facebook Album tArt shelf at the Facebook Developer Garage NYC. Hope to see ya’ll there!

- Steven J Baughman

A podcast is born.

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:40:00 -0400

A podcast is born.

Ok, so you may have noticed a new flash coverflow-eque viewer on the main page of Album tArt. This...

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:56:00 -0400

Ok, so you may have noticed a new flash coverflow-eque viewer on the main page of Album tArt. This is not just eye-candy (though it is so so pretty). We’re working on making this a latest activity viewer. It will display the latest comments, ratings, and collecting on the site.

Above is a mock-up of how I was thinking of integrating the activity into the album display. I thought including a thumbnail of the user image would be nice to spotlight the user, and then displaying a selection of the comment, the rating, or the shelf icon (well, not really an icon…) to quickly communicate what action took place. I think we could display the user’s name in a tool-tip when the profile image is rolled over.

I think really long album names could become problematic, but we could truncate them, OR eliminate them completely and have them only show up when user’s roll over the album image. Thoughts? Ideas of how to expand this to include more behavior or display more content?

- Steven J Baughman

Lp3 by Ratatat - Official Album Artwork That sticker peels is so...

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:02:00 -0400

Lp3 by Ratatat - Official Album Artwork

That sticker peels is so fresh…but it looks real familiar. Did you design this album Jason?

Phase 1 almost complete

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:29:00 -0400

Wrapping up a few of the final details for our Phase 1 launch. Squash them bugs! Tweak that code! Align those pixels! Go, tArt, go!