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Contrast [[Detail-Hogging Cover]], which goes for the opposite strategy.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Studio Ghibli]]'s Japanese Blu-ray releases all come in monochrome cases, a single color background with the title and a silhouette of the main character in white.
* The Japanese Blu-ray [https://web.archive.org/web/20160912155859/http://www.asianblurayguide.com/detail/976/rebuild_of_evangelion_20_you_can_not_advance_anime_japan releases] for ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' are a plain single color, with the title on the front in black text.
* [[FUNimation]]'s covers for [http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Funimation_Remastered_Box_Sets some boxsets] of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' just have the character standing there with a cool pose and a one color background.
* ''Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service'' has covers in brown and one other color, a dramatic difference from most manga covers.
* Drawn & Quarterly's translations of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's one-shot collections have fairly minimalistic [https://web.archive.org/web/20060808191542/http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?st=art cover art].
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* Some collected editions of ''[[Watchmen]]'' only have the smiley face on the cover.
** Some have an extreme close up on it that shows only part of one eye.
* Variation: In some versions of ''[[Final Crisis]]'' issues, anything that isn't a text cover only a 1/3 of the front [[Department of Redundancy Department|cover]].
** And the collected edition has a black-and-red cover of Superman holding Batman. While not as minimalist as other examples, it's certainly minimalist compared to other Crisis covers.
* The all-black cover of ''[[JMS Spider-Man|The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' #36 (#477), save for the Marvel Comics header and the logo. This issue is the 9/11 tribute issue.
* The all-white cover for ''[[Zero Hour]]'' #0 (1994), which implies that the [[DC Universe]] was already erased at that point.
* Back in 1968, [[media:shield 4.jpg|this]] Steranko [[Nick Fury]] cover was considered almost too minimalist to publish—Stan Lee couldn't fathom publishing a cover that was black and white, and so insisted that Steranko color the title and Fury.
* ''[[Superman]]'' Vol 2, #100 had an almost entirely white cover, except for the title logo, the S-shield reflected in a broken pair of glasses and the legend "The Death of Clark Kent!" ''Action Comics'' #720 duplicated this, only the S-shield was reflected in an abandoned diamond ring, and the legend was "The Engagement Is Off!"
* DC had a horror anthology title in the 80s called ''Wasteland.'' Due to one error or another, issue #5 was published with issue #6's cover. When [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/effect/images/wasteland6.jpg the real #6] came out, it was numbered "the real number six", and the cover, apart from framing elements, was pure white. For a horror comic, it worked quite well.
* The new hardcover editions of some [[Sin City]] yarns went for this, with just close ups of their protagonists. However, given the Sin City art style and design, it fits perfectly.
* The new [[Rice Boy]] hardcover edition is going to look like [http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llyvkbs1An1qa4eg7.jpg this], hiding the colorful surrealistic art inside.
* The ''[[Judge Dredd]] Case Files'', a series of trade paperbacks collecting the ''entire'' thirty five plus year run of the series have covers that are half solid colour, half black with a logo, plain text title and an image of the Judge himself. In the earlier editions, the image of Dredd was black and white which enhanced the effect. This style has since been carried over to other 2000AD complete collections, including ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' and [[Nemesis the Warlock]].
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad023.html parodied] [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad083.html this] [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad091.html more] [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad115.html than] [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad163.html a] [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad210.html few] [http://www.madcoversite.com/mad416.html times.]
== [[Film]] ==
* [[wikipedia:File:NothingFilm.jpg|The poster]] of the Vincenzo Natali film ''Nothing'' only feature the two protagonists on a white background. And the said protagonists don't cover much space there. Besides the title, billing block and the company logos, that's pretty much it.
* Aside from all of that text, the poster of the ''[[Children of Men]]'' adaptation is all about the fetus.
* Some posters (and covers of few DVD versions) of the Darren Aronofsky film ''[[Pi]]'' were this.
* Some theatrical posters of the second, fourth and fifth ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' movies.
* The theatrical poster of [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s adaptation of ''[[The Shining]]''.
* ''[[The Frighteners]]''.
* Some DVD editions of ''[[12 Monkeys]]'' were this.
* Oliver Stone's ''The Hand''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Guess what the poster contains.]]
** There's also his ''World Trade Center''.
* The [[wikipedia:File:Poltergeistposter.jpg|first]] [[wikipedia:File:Poltergeist-2-the-other-side.jpg|two]] ''[[Poltergeist (film series)||Poltergeist]]'' movies.
* The original poster and the DVD cover of the [[Batman (film)|1989 Batman movie]] has the [[Iconic Logo|iconic Batman logo]] on a black background and nothing else. Not even a title.
* ''[[Zelig]]''
** On the subject of all things [[Woody Allen]], a good number of his films had theatrical posters that were basically these.
* ''[[Malcolm X (film)|Malcolm X]]''
* ''[[wikipedia:Helvetica (film)|Helvetica]]'', a documentary about an eponymous ''[[Useful Notes/Fonts|typeface]]''.
** And from the same filmmaker, ''[http://aslittledesign.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/objectified_poster1.gif Objectified]''.
* Covers made for [[The Criterion Collection]] edition videos<ref>Which are all original cover designs specifically for the Criterion Collection release.</ref> are generally very minimalist.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The covers of the second and third ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' novels are black backgrounds with the title and some random object that may or may not relate to the plot. (A flower and a ribbon, respectively.)
** And given Twilight's success, every other YA fantasy novel cover these days has a [[Trend Covers|similar design]].
** The torn ribbon may be interpreted to symbolise the tear between Bella's Vampire boyfriend and family and her "Werewolf" friends, who are enemies. However, Meyer has stated she had no control over the flower cover, and it has no relevance.
** The first one's ''less'' minimalistic, since it shows its random object on a black background ([[How Do You Like Them Apples?|an apple]]; I don't know what apples have to do with the plot, but [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]?) being held in a pair of disembodied hands. But it still probably counts.
* Many, many old (and other hardcover) books are like this, with just a title printed on the spine. Of course some of those could be because the book jacket is missing. It can also be because the original paperback cover fell off and got lost, and the book was rebound in hardcover in a library.
* Faber & Faber's poetry books are often this ([https://web.archive.org/web/20101217005337/http://faber.co.uk/site-media/onix-images/thumbs/10493_jpg_280x450_q85.jpg example]).
* [[Gravity's Rainbow|Thomas Pynchon's]] ''Mason & Dixon'' and ''Against the Day'', released in 1997 and 2006, respectively.
** As well as the man's very first book, ''V.''. [[Mind Screw|Suits it pretty well if you come to think of it]].
* The first edition of [[Stephen King|Richard Bachman]]'s ''Thinner''
** Speaking of [[Stephen King]], there's the first edition of ''[[wikipedia:File:Insomniaking2.jpg|Insomnia]]'' (unrelated to the [[Christopher Nolan]] film).
** Then there's his ''Just After Sunset'' anthology.
* Not counting the mylar cover it was packaged in, Madonna's book ''Sex'' just has the title in tiny, raised letters on a blank cover.
* About a few of [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s books.
* The UK/Ireland editions of the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' books all have plain black covers bearing the author's name, title of the book, and a line drawing of the Wheel and an ouroboros. These are considerably more popular than the horrid and nonsensical American covers.
* The English-language paperback editions of the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' novels feature a plain red cover with an understated title and a small, easily-overlooked silhouette of Haruhi. The hardcovers, however, bear the original Japanese art, probably on the grounds that anybody buying the hardcover is already a die-hard fan.
* Corgi's new, "classy" covers of ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, especially the early ones. A mostly black cover, with [[Terry Pratchett]]'s name at the top, the title half-way down and a grey image with gold highlights in the lower half. [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SniTwfm5BwE/Slt96M1WVJI/AAAAAAAABWg/NT00vcfPp5E/s400/Colour+of+Magic+UK.JPG Compare the two covers] of ''[[The Colour of Magic]]''.
* Plentiful of [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s work had this on their first (and many later in some cases) editions, [[wikipedia:File:Lullabycvr.jpg|especially]] ''[[Lullaby]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:File:Diarycvr.jpg|Diary]]''.
* ''[[The Catcher in The Rye]].'' White cover, black text, flat rainbow-colored stripes in one corner. Many of Salinger's books can be found with that same pattern.
* Some of France's publishing houses use minimalist covers for their most prestigious collections. See for instance the [http://air-libris.com/admin/upload/uploads/tests/APOLLINAIRE-ALCOOLS-NRF1948.jpg nrf]{{Dead link}} or [http://www.mediapart.fr/files/Christine%20Marcandier-Bry/lettres.jpg les Editions de Minuit]{{Dead link}}.
* The [http://www.wiredmamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/push.jpg cover]{{Dead link}} for [[Push (novel)|Push]] by Sapphire is just the title of the book on a red background.
* ''[[Incompetence]]'' and ''[[Fat]]'' by Rob Grant have similar covers: A black background with the book's title and a parody of a warning sign (''Incompetence'' has a "no IQ" sign, while ''Fat'' has the symbol for men's and women's bathrooms with the man symbol depicted as overweight).
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* DVD Edition of [[Chris Morris]]'s ''[[Jam]]'' [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm739351552/tt0240273 had one.]
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'s return from the dead was [https://web.archive.org/web/20150513090755/http://slayerlit.us/features/pics/f5/1.jpg advertised] with one.
== [[Music]] ==
* [[The Beatles]]' [[wikipedia:File:The White Album.svg|eponymous white album]].
** [[Metallica]]'s [http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=663&tbm=isch&tbnid=hYrF5xqLwyqYzM:&imgrefurl=http://www.marshallofrock.com/metallica-news-30th-birthday-shows-download-2012-plans-rihanna-samples-wherever-i-may-roam/&docid=1gFFMK4ggq--vM&imgurl=http://www.marshallofrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Metallica-Metallica-BlackAlbum1.jpg&w=320&h=320&ei=rozRTrL-NaGTiQLoiZDeCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=173&vpy=168&dur=480&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=95&ty=121&sig=117959524861203066345&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=130&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0 eponymous black album].
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* Peter Saville's first big splash was ''[[Joy Division|Unknown Pleasures]]'' by [[Joy Division]]. That being early work, he actually put the band and album name on the sleeve (in small print on the back).
** He quickly grew out of this, of course. [[New Order]]'s first big hit single, "Blue Monday," had the band and song names only as a ''colour code''. The accompanying album, ''Power, Corruption and Lies'', only had the ''catalogue number'', FACT-75, on the cover - as text on the spine and, of course, colour code.
** The cover of New Order's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150331235406/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/NOBrotherhood.jpg Brotherhood]'' is a a photo of zinc-titanium alloy.
** Saville pushed design well beyond reasonable limits. The die-cut cover for "Blue Monday", meant to resemble a floppy disk, was much more expensive to produce than a standard cover and reputedly lost money on every copy sold ... this became problematic when it turned out to be a hit.
** He also caused many (quite financially important) New Order releases to be delayed because he took so long to come up with the ''perfect'' sleeve.
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* One prerequisite for this trope has been subverted with [[Explosions in the Sky]]'s ''[[wikipedia:File:The earth is not a cold dead place.jpg|The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place]]'' which cover consists of nothing BUT the album's name [[Broken Record|written all over and over it]] (with the band's name written in one place with a red outline) on a white background.
** ''[[Radiohead|In Rainbows]]'' does the similar "write the titles all over it" thing, with the fancy explosion in the background.
** [[XTC]]'s ''Go 2'' is another album which the front cover consists of a block of text. The text contains [https://web.archive.org/web/20150408203610/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/XTC_Go_2.jpg a humorous diatribe on album covers]
* [[A Fire Inside]]'s ''Sing The Sorrow'', especially the U.S. tour edition cover.
* The [[Pet Shop Boys]]' albums ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/PetSopBoysIntrospective.jpg Introspective]'',{{Dead link}} ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150313164136/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/PetShopBoysVery.jpg Very]'', and ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/PetShopBoysBilingual.jpg Bilingual]''.{{Dead link}}
** And for diffrent reasons, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100118084826/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Yespetshopboys.jpg Yes]'' and ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/PetShopBoys_Fundamental.jpg Fundamental]''.
* [[Talking Heads]]' ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Talking_Heads-77.jpg Talking Heads: 77]'',{{Dead link}} ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131211101844/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Talking_Heads-Fear_of_Music.jpg Fear of Music]'', and ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Talkingheadsbrick.jpg Brick]''.
* Italian group Elio e le Storie Tese's album ''[http://img.loudvision.it/29/2894-cicciput-elio-e-le-storie-tese.jpg Cicciput]''.{{Dead link}}
* Russian rock group Kino and their ''Black Album'', released after their lead singer [[Viktor Tsoi]] passed away.
** Also, their ''Blood Type'' (for abstract art) and ''A Star Called The Sun'' (for single object focus/simple black background)
* Both of the two (so far) Hard-Fi albums. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Hard-fi_-_Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West.PNG The cover for their second album] ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' (as well as the covers for [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Hard-Fi_-_Suburban_Knights.png all]{{Dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929024336/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Hard-Fi_-_Can%27t_Get_Along_%28Without_You%29.png three] [
* [[Portishead]]'s ''Third''.
* Funkstörung's ''Appendix''.
* [[Radiohead]]'s ''Amnesiac'', even better if you have [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121182437/http://sleevage.com/radiohead-amnesiac/ the limited edition], which ''is'' the red book pictured on a front cover of its standard CD release.
* The censored cover of
* The cover of Pinebender's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130927154712/http://sleevage.com/pinebender-too-good-to-be-true/ Too good to be true]'' is mainly a blue grid paper so you can draw your own cover art on it. The album's first pressing even included a pencil into its jewel case.
** [[Beck]]'s ''The Information'' does the same, except that it comes with stickers (perhaps you could always get your own pencil if that wasn't enough).
* [[Public Image Ltd]]'s ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Album]]''. Or ''Cassette''. Or ''Compact Disc'', depending on the format.
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* [[Animal Collective]]'s ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'', although there's a little more to it because [[wikipedia:File:Animal collective merriweather.jpg|it's an optical illusion]]. When the band made a musical appearance on The Late Show, David Letterman held up their record and joked that it was available "in wallpaper stores everywhere."
** May I note that Animal Collective's albums ''Summertime Clothes'', ''Strawberry Jam'', ''Prospect Hummer'', ''Hollinndagain'', and ''Fall Be Kind'' were all also textless.
* Adlib's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130927160428/http://sleevage.com/adlib-mcd/ MCD]''.
* ''[[U2|No Line on the Horizon]]''.
** Are you sure it's not Taylor Deupree/Richard Chartier's ''[http://www.rumorsinmusic.com/files/2009/01/taylor_deupree_specification_fifteen_album_cover.jpg Specification. Fifteen]''?{{Dead link}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020133942/http://sleevage.com/the-modernist-editions/ The Modernist Editions], a series that takes covers of classic albums, like [[The Beatles]]' ''Abbey Road'' or [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''The Wall'', and distills them down to a black-and-white pictogram.
* Brakes - [http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/1173-give-blood.jpg ''Give Blood'']
* Shinedown's [http://hardrockhideout.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/shinedownthesoundofmadness.jpg "The Sound of Madness."]
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* [[Rush]]'s ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Rush_Hold_Your_Fire.jpg Hold Your Fire]''. Also, their self-titled debut, ''2112'', and ''Counterparts''.
* Susumu Yokotas album Grinning Cat. [http://www.tunequest.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/grinning-cat.png See it here]
* John Zorn's ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/IAO.jpg I.A.O.]''{{Dead link}}
* Coil and their ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/TimeMachinesEskaton10.jpg Time Machines]''.
* [[Steely Dan]]'s ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120817230136/http://starworksny.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/steely-dan-aja-album-cover.jpg Aja]''.
* [[Led Zeppelin]]'s self-titled debut, with the famous image of the Hindenburg explosion. Also, ''Coda''.
* [[The Police]]'s ''Ghost in the Machine''.
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* The Boredoms' release "Vision Creation Newsun" consists solely of a picture of a young child in front of a sun glare. The limited edition box set of the album had artwork that consisted of nothing but simple vector shapes.
* The Secret Machines have released several albums with minimal artwork, notably September 000, which is simply a blue circle on a white background, with black text of the band name in the lower corner. The iTunes release of the album did not have the black text, leaving the artwork simply as the large blue circle.
* [[Brian Eno]] seems to be a fan of this trope as well, with his ''[
** This extends to his collaborations as well, like in ''[[wikipedia:File:Fripp & Eno's Evening Star.jpg|Evening Star]]'' with [[King Crimson|Robert Fripp]] and the aforementioned <s>Taylor Deupree</s>[[U2]] album.
* German krautrock duo Cluster also has few albums like this, notable among which is ''[[wikipedia:File:Clustergw.jpg|Grosses Wasser]]''. And let's not even mention their collaborations with Eno himself.
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* ''[[The Velvet Underground]] & Nico'' as well as ''White Light/White Heat''
* [[Venetian Snares]] had ''[[wikipedia:File:Venetian Snares - printf.jpg|printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n");]]''
* [
* [[Todd Rundgren]]’s ''Faithful'' came in a plain, beige cover with just the album title and Todd’s name in lowercase letters across the top.
* The cover for the XX's self-titled debut album appears to be a white "x" on black background. Actually it's die-cut and the CD booklet is white.
* [[Sparks]]' ''Lil' Beethoven''.
* [[Dr. Dre]]'s ''2001''.
* The [[w:File:808s_%26_Heartbreak.png|cover]] for [[Kanye West]]'s ''808s and Heartbreak'' features a lone paper heart.
** ''Yeezus'' doesn't even [[w:File:Yeezus_album_cover.png|''have'']] a cover booklet, only a blank CD and a red sticker on the right of its case.
* Several Wizard Rock albums have these, starting with Harry and the Potters [http://bandcamp.com/files/22/89/2289390273-1.jpg first, self-titled album]{{Dead link}}: the 2007 EP of the Month Club albums, specially [http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/5/4/4/154417.jpg Voldemort's ''Evil is Sexy''] and Roonil Wazlib's [http://www.wizardrockclub.com/files/disks/roonil300.png ''Putting Fluffy to Sleep''], [http://i55.tinypic.com/1220lm8.jpg ''OMG It's Catchlove''], [http://bandcamp.com/files/38/39/3839678718-1.jpg ''VII'']{{Dead link}} by Creevey Crisis, Gred and Forge's [http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff306/gredandforgerock/gredandforgecdcoversmall.gif first album], and The Butterbeer Experience's [http://lenagabrielle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Front_fin-2.jpg ''Love Will Prevail: Songs from The Final Battle''].
** Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150513095614/http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/108/l_9ded5e3eb650448e97a74e24319fc13e.jpg full set of House EPs] would have been this, had it been completed. Sadly, we only got the Slytherin EP.
* [[Royksopp|Röyksopp's]] ''[[wikipedia:File:Royksopp Senior Cover.jpg|Senior]]'', contrasting [[Design Student's Orgasm|the approach]] taken from their previous album, ''Junior''.
* [[Frank Zappa]]'s ''[
* Junior Boys's Begone Dull Care fits.... [http://www.amazon.com/Begone-Dull-Care-Junior-Boys/dp/B001T46UBO\]
* ''Live At Leeds'' by [[The Who]].
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* [[Limp Bizkit]]'s ''[[Greatest Hits Album|Greatest Hitz]]'', quite unusual considering everything else they have done.
{{quote|'''Fred Durst:''' I wanted it to stand out on the shelf and I did not want it to look like every other metal band record.}}
* [[Soulwax]]
* [[Arctic Monkeys]]' ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Suckitandsee.jpg Suck It And See]''.{{Dead link}}
* The [[Dire Straits]] album ''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Making_Movies.svg Making Movies]''.{{Dead link}}
* This is an album by The Black Keys. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/The_Black_Keys_-_Brothers.jpg The name of this album is Brothers].
** Which may be a [[Shout-Out]] to the cover of Howlin' Wolf's ''[[wikipedia:File:The Howlin' Wolf Album.jpg|The Howlin' Wolf Album]]''
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* After [[The Rolling Stones]]' label rejected their original cover for ''Beggars Banquet'' (which featured [[Bathroom Stall Graffiti]]), they substituted a plain white cover, done up as a mock "R.S.V.P." invitation card. (When the album was reissued on CD in the '80s, the graffiti cover was used instead.)
== [[New Media]] ==
* [[Something Awful|The Goons]] have once launched a photoshop contest on "classy" literature-influenced covers for various modern Video Games. Some of the entries kinda fit for this trope. [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/classy-games4.php?page=1 Here's the now fourth edition of it].
* [http://www.vgboxart.com/view/8827/the.darkness/?replies=76 This] VGBoxArt entry managed to spoof this.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Hero System|The Hero System 4th Edition]]'' cover was four-color comic book action with art done by notable comic-book artist George Perez. By fifth edition, Hero Games couldn't afford that sort of thing anymore. So fifth edition is black on black, with only the Hero Games logo on the cover.
** Now that they have all that MMO license money Hero Games could afford to do that sort of thing again, but chose instead to again go minimalist with a ''Yellow'' logo on a Blue background for the 6th Edition cover.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''9 : The Last Resort'' (no connection to [[Last Res0rt|the certain webcomic]] or [[9|the 2009 CGI film]]) is an [[Adventure Game]] with Robert De Niro involved in its production. Its cover - company logos aside - features mostly a monkey holding a card with an "9" on it.
* The European versions of the first ''MDK''.
* The entirety of ''[[MOTHER]]'' series, sans the American version of [[
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' had a shield with one section cut out to reveal the cartridge inside.
** [[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|The second game]] had just a picture of a sword on the cover.
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** To some extent, the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series as well.
*** Sort of subverted with [[Dragon Age|Baldur's Gate's own Spiritual Successor though.]]
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110914105701/http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/internal-section/cover-art/gameCoverId,48975/ Internal Selection]''
* The US cover art for ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' pretty much just has the main character Mao, and the game's title on it. Very minimalistic compared to the US boxarts of the previous games, which at least feature most of the main characters, and ''extremely'' minimalistic compared to the JP boxart, which is a character montage featuring all of the main characters, a ton of the generic humanoid classes, and some of the monster classes.
* The Japanese and PAL releases of ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games from ''[[Final Fantasy VII|VII]]'' to ''[[Final Fantasy X|X]]'' originally had a cover with the game's logo on a white background. Examples [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/a/ad/Ff7_eu.jpg 1], [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/3/33/Final_Fantasy_VIII_European_box_art.jpg 2], [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/3/3f/Ff9_eu.jpg 3], [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/5/55/X_eurofront.jpg 4]. This actually makes the more complex covers of the American releases look downright odd to people used to logo and white.
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'''s SNES release also utilized a [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Final_Fantasy_IVℑ=Ff2usbox-gif minimalist cover]{{Dead link}}.
* ''[[Darwinia]]''.
* ''[[Front Mission]]s 2'' and ''Alternative''.
* The cover for [[
* [http://kotaku.com/5145909/a-second-serving-of-classic-reimagined-game-covers Game covers re-imagined as old books].
* ''Dark Colony'', in certain countries. A big logo "DC", the game's title, a brief tagline, and lots and lots of completely empty brown space. [http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1274002762-00.jpg Just take a look.]
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* ''[[Edge]]'' magazine has done some incredibly minimalist covers for particularly massive [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ian_d/3489586504/in/set-72157616611119113 hardware] or [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ian_d/3499491585/in/set-72157616611119113 software] releases.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Designing minimalistic posters for popular works has become somewhat popular in recent years, thanks to increased access to graphic design tools, such as photoshop. For example, [http://minimalmovieposters.tumblr.com/ this] tumblr page collects minimalist movie posters.
* There are many rants on "[[True Art Is Incomprehensible|artsy]]" minimalist posters. See, e.g. [http://www.fastcodesign.com/3043156/its-time-for-the-minimalist-poster-trend-to-die John Brownlee's]:
{{quote|You order a cheeseburger, and after waiting for a while, someone comes out and serves you a Lunchables version of a cheeseburger: two Ritz Crackers, a patty of Velveeta, and a swollen puck of saline-injected roast beef. You wouldn't say, "What a clever deconstruction!" or "How deliriously evocative of a cheeseburger!" You'd be like, "Where the fuck is my cheeseburger?
[...] Minimalist posters are a [[Bait and Switch|bait-and-switch]]: a lack of nuance disguising itself as insight. Bad, lazy design [[Author's Saving Throw|retconned into]] spartanly applied technique. }}
== Other Media ==
* Peter Saville again: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/26/fitting-headstone-tony-wilson-grave The gravestone of Tony Wilson from Factory Records].
** Possibly beaten by [
* The infamous ''[[God Is Dead|Is God Dead?]]'' [[Time (magazine)|TIME magazine]] [http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19660408,00.html issue]. The cover and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827203533/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835309,00.html article] were so controversial, they have their own [[Wikipedia]] [[w:Is God Dead?|article]].
** Also, Newsweek's [[w:File:Newsweek_decline.jpg|''The Decline and Fall of Christian America'']] issue.
* Esquire magazine's [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101063925/http://www.esquire.com/features/vietnam-war-m-company-0365 October 1966 issue cover], and [[New Yorker|the New Yorker's]] [http://www.newyorkerstore.com/2001/New-Yorker-Cover-9242001/invt/127819 issue following 9/11]; voted #8 and #6, respectively, in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505212006/http://www.magazine.org/asme/
* News magazine ''The Economist'' once ran an article about zero inflation. Apart from the small red-and-white logo the cover just had a big white 0% on a black background.
** Speaking of ''The Economist'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20090608152853/http://consumerist.com/5059758/the-economist-sums-up-financial-crisis-oh-fuck This spoof] would be possibly the best minimalistic cover ever if it were true.
** [http://daviddoctorrose.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/when-simple-can-work-interesting-print-for-the-economist/ This ad].
* The [[wikipedia:Flag of Libya|flag of Libya]] is entirely and monochromatically green.
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* [http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/7460/jasper-morrison-september-cover-of-icon-magazine.html One issue] of ''Icon magazine'' was this.
* The [http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2009/11/16/game-informer-s-200th-issue-revealed.aspx 200th issue] of Game Informer had eight different possible covers, which were all white with images from iconic games on them. Some were more minimalistic than others.
* Polish magazine ''Przekroj'' had a couple of issues with minimalist covers, but the most fitting have to be [http://zuzga.nazwa.pl/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/przekroj.jpg the 65th anniversary issue]{{Dead link}} as well as [
* Speaking of the Smolensk disaster, a daily Polish newspaper ''Metro'' [
* The French writer and humorist Alphonse Allais (1854-1905) held a couple of "art shows" at the Galerie Vivienne in 1883 and 1884 that visually showcased his literal brand of wit. Here is his 1883 masterpiece [[wikipedia:File:Allais Alphonse 1883 Carre albi.jpg|"First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow".]]
* ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' Issue [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100703201225/tardis/images/7/7a/DWM_Issue_423_Front_Cover.jpg 423] (relased after [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
* The Cleveland Browns football team logo.
* The Sports Illustrated cover featuring the Miracle on Ice celebration is the only one in the history of the magazine to have no other words besides the title Sports illustrated on it.
* After recently{{when}} being revived from bankruptcy, graphic design industry journal Grafik has had covers that have a large central image, large masthead and small selection of article titles and that's it.
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