How the 'Voodoo Lounge' Cover Used Digital Artistry to Build a Surreal Desert – And Who Made It

The cover of the Rolling Stones’ 1994 album Voodoo Lounge was a breakthrough in digital album art, created entirely on a computer by British designer Mark Norton (often credited as Mark “André” Norton). He used early 3D modeling, fractal generators, and Photoshop layering to construct a desert that never existed—complete with a giant, eroded