“The new album is The Cure at their classic best,” Andy Vella ... The designer then worked with his Arts University Bournemouth colleague Ben Parker to bring the sculpture to life in motion across the ...

As a final touch, Vella created a custom typeface—a serif design with light smudging—to spell out the album title and the band’s name, effectively producing a new logo for the Cure.

In the same spirit of recollection, we got Vella to talk us through the creative thinking and processes behind his enduring art for the Cure. Here are his stories behind five of the band’s most ...

The Cure held the audience in a trance without any of the special effects, pyrotechnics or state-of-the-art visuals that most other artists use at a venue that size. Here were six guys just ...

Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a long-time Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The LP’s cover art features “Bagatelle,” a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.

While still studying at art school, Vella was approached by on-off Cure guitarist Porl Thompson who wanted him to photograph another group he was playing in. "He said, 'You've got a reputation at ...

Goths, rejoice: At long last, The Cure have released new music. “Alone”, their first new song in 16 years, premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music radio show Thursday morning (26 September.

Famously, The Cure are that rarest of rock beast ... for the ambient gloom of “All Cats Are Grey” or the spacious art-mospheres of “Underneath the Stars”. Here, forswearing all singles ...

It’s the most critically acclaimed Cure album by such an insurmountable ... by Blink-182 (a year removed from proving their newfound art-rock ambitions with a Robert Smith cameo on “All ...