The iconic Graduation album cover features a bear being launched ... Murakami explained the concept for the album cover: “The cover is based on Kanye’s theme of student life.

From the day the “Louis Vuitton Don” closed out Ye’s College trilogy with the release of his third album Graduation, Kanye transcended ... oncoming traffic. In a cover profile run by Rolling ...

It took two to three years for him to agree on a final design for “Graduation ... made in 2009 of the “Kanye Bear.” The central character on the album cover with his shutter-shades ...