Bjrk's album artwork in pictures | Music

Whether shes playing it stark and simple or sitting in a giant egg with blue feet, Bjorks cover art is as experimental as her music. To mark the release of her latest record, Vulnicura, heres a look back over her album sleeves, featuring collaborations with Alexander McQueen, M/M Paris and others

Björk's album artwork: from sci-fi Mother Earth to McQueen's kimono – in pictures

Whether she’s playing it stark and simple or sitting in a giant egg with blue feet, Bjork’s cover art is as experimental as her music. To mark the release of her latest record, Vulnicura, here’s a look back over her album sleeves, featuring collaborations with Alexander McQueen, M/M Paris and others

Thu 22 Jan 2015 15.50 GMT First published on Thu 22 Jan 2015 12.27 GMT

  • Vulnicura, 2015

    The cover character for the singer’s most personal album yet was created by Björk and the Dutch husband-and-wife photography duo Inez and Vinoodh

  • Biophilia, 2011

    The Biophilia cover depicts a bewigged Björk as a kind of sci-fi Mother Earth. The image weaves together elements of the universe, as illustrated by M/M Paris.

  • Volta, 2007

    This cover echoes the bright, bombastic sound of the singer’s seventh album, and was a collaboration between the German fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm and British fashion photographer Nick Knight.

  • Medúlla, 2004

    This album was initially named Ink, because Björk wanted it to symbolise the “5,000-year-old blood that’s inside us all; an ancient spirit that’s passionate and dark, a spirit that survives”.

  • Vespertine, 2001

    This ethereal artwork mirrors the delicacy and introverted romance of her album, which detailed her new relationship with the artist Matthew Barney. The swan, as famously seen at the Academy Awards in 2001, was illustrated by the design studio M/M Paris.

  • Homogenic, 1997

    Björk approached fashion designer Alexander McQueen to create an outfit that would evoke Homogenic’s song about a someone who “had to become a warrior. A warrior who had to fight not with weapons, but with love.”

  • Post, 1995

    Björk’s second album explored the isolation she felt from her friends and family in Iceland. For this cover, Me Company surround her with giant abstract postcards that represented the communication between the peripatetic artist and her loved ones. The image was photographed on a street in London.

  • Debut, 1993

    This photo captures Björk at the start of her solo venture, and is the most stark and simple of her career.
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