Yesterday, the world celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Michael Jackson’s DANGEROUS album and the man who created the most famous album cover in the world shared his original concepts for the cover.
Mark Ryden, the artist behind the DANGEROUS album cover, celebrated Dangerous 30 by sharing few of the concepts and here they are:
“30 years ago today, Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” album was released. Here are my other sketches for the project. I’ve never shown these before. I had 5 days to come up with ideas. I feverishly worked that week and came up with one resolved design per day. The parameters I was given were to focus on Michael’s eyes, show the earth in peril, and include kids and animals. I was instructed the image could be scary, but should still be fun. This was the most exciting project of my life up to that point.” – Mark Ryden
SOURCE: Mark Ryden
