I caught a glimpse of this album cover this morning and something struck me as very similar.  I remembered this Banksy piece (below) from his Barely Legal show in Los Angeles.  Quite similar, no?  Banksy has been known to do album covers in the past, and Coldplay is British, so it wouldn’t be a stretch.  If he did not do this however, the designer who did should get a finger cut off or something to the sort.

photo by Lord Jim