The Very Best of Supertramp

Designed by Scotland-born graphic artist and founder of L.A. based DesignArt Inc Norman Moore.  The Very Best of Supertramp is a 1990 retrospective compilation album from the British pop-rock group Supertramp. 

Since the late 80's Moore has  designed album covers for a variety of musicians including but not limited to Tina Turner, The Police and Michael Jackson. Previously, Moore worked with Supertramp producing covers for their 1985 studio album Brother Where You Bound and its opening single Cannonball.

Similarly to the idea of a compilation album, within the design Moore appropriates elements from previous Supertramp releases to build up the image creating a new unified identity akin to a collage.

In the center of the front cover floats the grate of a prison window, pulled directly from the band's third studio album Crime of the Century (1974, designed by Fabio Nicoli and Paul Wakefield). The hand of a waitstaff member penetrates the grate offering  an umbrella-adorned refreshing orange drink to the viewer (Breakfast in America, 1979, designed by Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty). Typographically, the band's name is spaced across the top borrowing the same  bold elongated  sans-serif typeface used for Breakfast in America (1979) while implementing  a color sequenced pattern similar to Moore's previous Supertramp cover design for Brother Where You Bound (1985).