The Album Artwork of "+"

Ed Sheeran's album "+"

The artwork for Ed Sheeran's album "+" was done by Phillip Butah, an artist from East London known well for designing portraits of people that reflect their personality and character. Phillip Butah gives a deep insight into the designing of the artwork for "+" describing the portrait as "the emerging singer finally coming out of the darkness which represents the dark clubs and venues that the singer would go to and perform on his steady rise."

Phillip Butah himself

Ed Sheeran has known Phillip Butah for years and in his own blog Butah tells us how he thinks that Ed Sheeran's album is one of the most anticipated album's of the year. We also find out that he hasn't just done one drawing of Ed: with the album cover being followed up with iconic pictures of his singles like "You Need Me I Don't Need You."




Community Channel also got an interesting insight into Sheeran's and Butah's relationship. From the interview with Phillip Butah we can see that Ed and Phillip are very good friends who intend to help one another in their career's. Also we can see that Ed Sheeran clearly admires Butah's artwork as he says that Phillip was one of the best artists he had ever known and that he wants him to keep providing artwork for his albums. This shows us that Ed intends to continue his friendly, helpful relationship with Phillip.

I personally think that Ed Sheeran's album artwork is really good because it is different to the average album artwork. Instead of there being the normal stereotypes on the cover, Ed Sheeran has used a nice, classy, pastel portrait of himself which I think shows his personality and character just like Butah said.