The new trend in album art is go geometric!! And is seems to be working...
Take a look at these albums in the top 100 on itunes!
Bruno Mars makes a bold attempt, but someone needs to remind him it is impossible to cover the surface of a sphere with perfect squares!! A sphere is not a Euclidean surface, the sum of the angles in a quadrilateral exceeds 360. Maybe you need to review your spherical geometry notes, Bruno.
Jason Mraz joins the game using geometric figures rather than letters. Will this catch on? Can we abolish the alphabet? Although the E is a bit shaky, I think we all know what he is trying to say. Jason loves his Geometry. I'm sure this warms his math teachers' hearts.
Although only #86 on itunes, Gotye's Somebody that I used to know may be my favorite cover.
Notice the Geometry and shading. Four equal squares are crisscrossed by a number of diagonals. There is some rotational symmetry about the center and for those of you who are more advanced, you may notice a glide rotation!! Clearly marketing to the Math geeks!!
Cher Lloyd and Calvin Harris deserve a mention. Check out their covers to see if you can recognize the geometry yourself. Who knows, maybe they will be trending up in the week to come.
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