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When it comes to building a recognizable brand—whether you’re a musician, podcaster, or content creator—your cover art is one of your most powerful tools. It’s not just decoration. It’s a statement.

Let’s be real: there are plenty of good reasons why artists, bands, and podcasters choose to DIY their cover art. Budgets are tight. You're trying to get your content out into the world quickly. And sometimes, it feels like slapping something together in Canva or Photoshop is “good enough.”

One day your videos are trending, and the next, your audience can’t find you. It’s a stark reminder that while social platforms are....

In this festive episode of Judged by the Cover, we’re diving into a few unexpected Christmas albums—the ones you didn’t see coming!

Panelists are presented with and judge 4 different album covers, each with its unique story and artistic elements.

For musicians, bands, and podcasters, one powerful tool for capturing attention and enticing new listeners is often overlooked...

Go on a journey with us as we discover an amazingly fun album and band by doing some curiosity buying solely based on the cover art!

To kick off this new season, I thought it would be fun to look at some of our favorite album covers, physical packaging, and music from 2023

If you are a band, musician, or a podcaster...you might be asking yourself can I design my own cover art...? I think my answer might surpris

New episode of the Judged by the Cover podcast, with the theme Cars on Album Covers.

With all these different options, it can be intimidating to figure out which graphic designer is best for you and your project. I’m going to

Website design projects can be some of the most exciting and rewarding things that I work on at JW Creates. In this note I'll share how I...

Custom album cover process for the band FACE. Check out the behind the scenes process in creating the album cover for the band FACE.

Since you may not know yet how much I love creating logos and branding, let me take you back to a few logos that helped shape my process.

My most common projects are logo and branding projects. Look at my project for Land of the Dad, and let me walk you through my design proces

Forget new year, new you... Lets get your brand or business looking fresh and professional with a new website!

How important cover art is for music in our digital streaming music world. In today’s digital world, we don’t interact with physical albums

One of my favorite things to create, and what actually started this business, is album covers. I love getting to visually communicate the...

Intro When we think of bands, we usually think of a group of guys or gals that start jamming together, writing some songs, they start...

Intro Welcome to the first episode of the Judged by the cover podcast. Today we are talking about the album cover that started this thing...