Anyone who posted in this thread might find this brief history interesting:-
Something not mentioned in the clip, is the prevalent Top Third rule that I recently learned about. When you flip through a bin of albums in a record shop, you mainly see the top half of the cover, right? So album cover designers used to put titles, etc near the top.
Congrats to Capitol Records for following the rules and putting one of the greatest albums of 1966 in a completely underwhelming cover:-
^ The only good thing about this piece of design is that it shows Mike Love being squeezed out by the other Beach Boys.