Arabic album art covers

Posted by fawzi | Filed under Arabic

Some of the ugliest album art covers ever are the Arabic ones. We [Arabs] tend to take a picture, slap a headline with any available Arabic typeface and then (for a strange reason) add the Latin text vertically as if it's a cheap motel sign calling people to stop by. If Arabic music is noise according to some people, they shouldn't even attempt to look at these albums!
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Permalink | May 27th, 2009

9 Responses to “Arabic album art covers”

  1. hala Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 21:20

    so many of these “artists” need to be introduced to the concept of graphic designers and visual importance of album covers, instead of having anything thrown together at the printers!! But then what can you expect from this mediocrity…

  2. mariam Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 23:39

    Yuck! I don’t even know where to begin!

  3. marianna Says:
    May 28th, 2009 at 10:12

    i love how “7assan il 2asmar” is so attached to the mole on his forehead.

  4. fawzi Says:
    May 28th, 2009 at 11:50

    I think it’s the mole that’s attached to his forehead! But that’s the least of the issues Marianna! Diana with the D being so intricately stolen from a free (and bad) font with 20 layers of photoshop effects in her evening gown hanging on a bus with the milky way in the background somehow baffles me!

  5. A.K Says:
    June 11th, 2009 at 03:16

    man they look so cool, whats wrong with them… just great art:D

  6. Joesbox Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 23:55

    This is a big question that I always ask to myself
    But you know It is not their fault at all, as we know the Arab singers are not so educated all they know is to dance and hold a micro….. but it is the big fault of the producers to reduce the coast of the production they hire an amateur to take some photos… after that they send it to the Photoshop department to make it worst…. And the result is this ALBUM…..so you can listen to this Cd by its cover 
    I have to mention The New Elissa one is the best in the Arab world I was wondering who did it!!!
    nice blog!

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    May 2nd, 2011 at 13:00

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    January 2nd, 2012 at 22:15

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