From MIrror80’s piece on ’80s album cover trends:
Some 1980s album covers went with a “less is more” approach, celebrating the stark modernity of brightly-colored shapes against a basic background. Take the iconic cover for New Order’s 1983 hit “Blue Monday” …, designed by English art director and graphic designer Peter Saville. Does it get any better than this?! The color palette for Yes’ 1983 album 90125…is undeniably appealing, as is the logo designed by Garry Mouat. Finally, we have Foreigner’s cover design for the 1984 album Agent Provocateur …, which shows that turning an “F” on its side and detailing its edges with primary colors can be the answer to a graphic design challenge:
An interesting little technology parallel between the New Order and Yes sleeves: The “Blue Monday” sleeve was inspired by the floppy disks used by the band’s Emulator sampling keyboard. The 90215 design was created using a Robograph 1000 system on an Apple IIe with 64K of RAM.
