 The album 's art design was credited to Capitol 's in @-@ house designer , Roy Kohara . Harrison supplied sketches for each item of the artwork , which adopted a humorous , " wacky " theme throughout the packaging . The vivid @-@ orange front cover featured a die @-@ cut design around the words " <unk> <unk> " , through which an inner @-@ sleeve , blue @-@ tinted picture of Harrison was visible . Some vinyl editions presented the words as simple blue text on an orange background , however , doing away with the expensive cut @-@ out detail . In keeping with the album title , the thin cardboard used for the LP cover was similar in texture to the " animal skin used on a football " , according to Beatles author Bruce Spizer . The front cover included an Om symbol , positioned below the angled title text and also coloured blue . On the back of the inner sleeve , there was a second Henry Grossman tour photo of Harrison , clearly enjoying himself on stage . 
