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# Coldplay Cover Art Cracked
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/coldplay-cover-art-cracked/
- Published: 2005-04-22T18:26:37.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-17T05:26:45.000Z
- Description: The designers of the new Coldplay album cover, have created a very Protein-esque cryptic logo which echoes every modernist school…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

The [designers](http://www.tappingofton.com/?ref=protein.xyz) of the new [Coldplay](http://www.coldplay.com/?ref=protein.xyz) album cover, have created a very Protein-esque cryptic logo which echoes every modernist school of painting from suprematism to De Stijl, however it didn't take for the fans to [crack it](http://www.stereoboard.com/artistnews/news-1023.html?ref=protein.xyz).

![](http://www.stereogum.com/img/coldplayxy.jpg)

To some it is, however, a cross between The Da Vinci Code and Fermat's last theorem and the designers themselves cite 1940s mathematical abstraction. A great brain-teaser of our time? Is it phallic? Is it a coded celebrity portrait? Guys, guys, the Guardian asks - have you thought of asking: [is it art](http://www.politics.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1459329,00.html?ref=protein.xyz)?

![](http://gallery.proteinos.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=1911)

As you can see above, Coldplay fans have succeeded in [cracking the code](http://www.stereoboard.com/artistnews/news-1023.html?ref=protein.xyz) featured on the bands new cover art. The band astounded fans last week when they launched the artwork for the eagerly awaited new album 'X & Y', featuring a series of cryptic colour-coded blocks. Now it has been discovered that the actual blocks are graphical representations loosely based on a binary code known as 'Baudot', which generates a base5 binary representations for each letter or character in the western alphabet.