Pen & Pixel

The Brauch brothers and their staff worked with over 8,000 clients and completed 19,180[1] album covers before the company closed its doors in 2003.

[2] The brothers cited peer-to-peer file sharing website Napster and the September 11 attacks as reasons for the close; artists were reluctant to fly to Houston to view artwork that listeners would be unlikely to see.

[5] Common themes included bullets, cars, drugs, fire, gems, money, women, and other examples of wealth and riches.

These sketches would then be scanned by a computer, which would generate a list of items needed for the cover, such as cars and diamonds.

[8] The artwork is in their signature design, "heavily" inspired by those of Cash Money and No Limit and is a nod to the "bling rap" album covers of the 1990s.