自1877年爱迪生发明留声机,音乐得以以一种固体的形式开始传播,在一百多年的时间里载体从唱筒发展到黑胶唱片、磁带、CD、MP3,今天更成为集成数字媒介的一部分,音乐载体的更迭无疑代表着科学技术的进步与发展,也同时体现了音乐民主化道路的进程。而现代意义上的唱片封面设计概念却直至20世纪40年代才出现。虽然出现的时间不长,却因其与所承载音乐的紧密性连接一直是所处时代艺术观念与设 Since 1877, Edison invented the gramophone, music began to spread in a solid form. For more than a century, carriers evolved from singing to vinyl recordings, tapes, CDs, and MP3s. Today they are even more part of an integrated digital medium The change of music carrier undoubtedly represents the progress and development of science and technology and at the same time embodies the process of democratization of music. In the modern sense, the concept of record cover design did not appear until the 1940s. Although it did not take long, it has always been the artistic conception and design of the times in the world because of its close connection with the music being carried