Best Art Vinyl
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Best Art Vinyl is an annual award that began in 2005. It celebrates artists and designers of vinyl record cover art.[1] The nomination process begins in November and the winners are announced in January,[2] and are exhibited at venues across the United Kingdom and Europe.[3] The favourites are voted for by the public from a selection of nominations by judges within the world of art and music and are displayed using Art Vinyl's unique Play & Display Flip Frame.[4][5][6][7]
2023 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying | Art Director, Design and front cover photography by Michelle Henning. Additional design and typesetting by Rob Crane |
| 2 | Gabriels | Angels and Queens Part 2 | Photography by Melodie McDaniel. |
| 3 | Sub Focus | Evolve | Art Direction by Mat Maitland from Big Active Design & Nicolaas Douwma
Artificial Intelligence by Claudia Rafael Design by Mat Maitland - Big Active Design |
| 4 | Roisin Murphy | Hit Parade | Creative Direction by Róisín Murphy
Art by Beth Frey Design by Bráulio Amado Photography by Connor Egan Production by Object & Animal |
| 5 | Alison Goldfrapp | The Love Invention | Photography and Design by Mat Maitland - Big Active Design |
| 6 | Skrillex | Quest For Fire | Artwork by Alfred Pietroni |
| 7 | Orbital | Optical Delusion | Artwork by John Greenwood |
| 8 | Young Fathers | Heavy Heavy | Design by Hingston Studio |
| 9 | Lonely The Brave | What We Do To Feel | Artwork by True Spilt Milk Design |
| 10 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Again | Designed by @eccopn & @onlineceramics
Sculpture by @ringlund_instat |
2022 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Country, New Road | Ants From Up There | Artwork by Simon Monk. Design by Ninja Tune |
| 2 | Birds In Row | Gris Klein | Artwork by Bart Balboa. |
| 3 | Richard Dawson | The Ruby Cord | Artwork by Jake Blanchard Additional Design by Matthew Cooper[1] |
| 4 | Arctic Monkeys | The Car | Photography by Matt Helders. Design by Matthew Cooper and Alex Turner |
| 5 | Black Midi | Hellfire | Design by David Rudnick |
| 6 | Bonobo | Fragments | Artwork by Neil Krug. Design by Mat Maitland at Big Active |
| 7 | Dry Cleaning | Stumpwork | Photography and design by Annie Collinge. Creative Direction and styling by Rottingdean Bazaar |
| 8 | Stealing Sheep | Wow Machine | Artwork by Barbarian Flower |
| 9 | Rammstein | Zeit | Photography by Brian Adams |
| 10 | Malevolence | Malicious Intent | Artwork by Eliran Kantor |
2021 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Artist | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villagers | Fever Dreams | Artwork by Paul Phillips at True Spilt Milk Designs. Design by Matthew Cooper, assisted by Paul J Street | [8] | [9] |
| 2 | Duran Duran | Future Past | Photography Daisuke Yokota. Art Direction Rory McCartney | ||
| 3 | Thunder | All the Right Noises | Cover photo by Jason Joyce. Design by Neel Panchal | ||
| 4 | Mogwai | As the Love Continues | Design by DLT | ||
| 5 | Gruff Rhys | Seeking New Gods | Design and Art Direction by Mark James | ||
| 6 | Shire T | Tomorrow's People | Artwork and Design by Alexander Brown | ||
| 7 | Amyl and the Sniffers | Comfort to Me | Artwork by Bráulio Amado | ||
| 8 | Lost Horizons | In Quiet Moments | Cover photography by Jacques-Henri Lartigue | ||
| 9 | Balthazar | Sand | Homunculus Loxodontus, a statue by Dutch artist Margriet Van Breevoort. Art Director Annelise Keestra | ||
| 10 | The Vaccines | Back in Love City | Artwork by Seerlight |
2020 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IDLES | Ultra Mono | Painting by Russell Oliver |
| 2 | Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets | Live at the Roundhouse | Design by Chris Peyton for VVVOID |
| 3 | Doves | The Universal Want | Photography by Maria Lax |
| 4 | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | Photography and design by Neil Krug. Art concept by Kevin Parker and Neil Krug |
| 5 | Courteeners | More. Again. Forever. | Cover art by Laura Fray |
| 6 | Bibio | Sleep On the Wing | Illustration and linocut print by Chris Wormell |
| 7 | Rick Wakeman (and the English Ensemble) | The Red Planet | Cover design by Martin Robert Cook |
| 8 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Magic | Design by Robert Beatty |
| 9 | Tenderlonious | Quarantena | Artwork and design by Theo Ackroyd |
| 10 | Taylor Swift | Folklore | Photography by Beth Garrabrant |
2019 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Artist | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Klone | Le Grand Voyage | Artist and Photographer: Francesco Dell'Orto | [10] |
| 2 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Ghosteen | Artist: Tom DuBois Designers: Hingston Studio and Nick Cave | |
| 3 | Efterklang | Altid Sammen | Designers and Art Directors: Hvass&Hannibal | |
| 4 | XOA | Way West | [11] | |
| 5 | Baroness | Gold & Grey | Artist: John Baizley | |
| 6 | 808 State | Transmission Suite | Artist: Vasim Bhatti Photographers: Michael England, Richard Brook, and Vasim Bhatti | |
| 7 | Ultramarine | Meditations | Artist: Heretic and Spectral Nation | |
| 8 | Vanishing Twin | The Age of Immunology | Artist: Alex Hornsby Photographer: Elliott Arndt | |
| 9 | Stormzy | Heavy Is the Head | Designer: Hales Curtis | |
| 10 | Wovoka Gentle | Start Clanging Cymbals | Artist: Olivia Norris |
2018 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Artist | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Editors | Violence | Designer: Rahi Rezvani | [12] |
| 2 | Young Fathers | Cocoa Sugar | Designer: Tom Hingston | |
| 3 | Aphex Twin | Collapse EP | Designers: The Designers Republic | |
| 4 | Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner | Music from Bagpuss OST. | Designer: Hannah Alice | |
| 5 | Arctic Monkeys | Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino | Designer: Alex Turner | |
| 6 | Let's Eat Grandma | I'm All Ears | Designer: Yanjun Cheng | |
| 7 | Thom Yorke | Suspiria | Designers: Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock | |
| 8 | Janelle Monáe | Dirty Computer | Designer: Joe Perez | |
| 9 | Low | Double Negative | Designer: Peter Liversidge | |
| 10 | Peggy Gou | Once | Designer: Jee-ook Choi |
2017 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run the Jewels | Run the Jewels 3 | Art Direction & Photography by Timothy Saccenti
Drawing by Nick Gazin Layout by Troy Hahn |
| 2 | Father John Misty | Pure Comedy | Art Direction by Sasha Barr
Illustrations by Ed Steed |
| 3 | Vessels | The Great Distraction | Design by Split |
| 4 | Hannah Peel | Mary Casio:Journey to Cassiopeia | Design by Jonathan Barnbrook |
| 5 | Lost Horizons | Ojala | Artwork by Marcus Davies
Design by Luke Jarvis |
| 6 | Blanck Mass | World Eater | Photograph by Carli Davidson
Layout by Sacred Bones Design |
| 7 | Actress | AZD | Photography by Mehdi Lacoste/Jo Di Studio
Creative Direction Darren J Cunnighham/Theresa Adebiyi |
| 8 | Gorillaz | Humanz | Design by Jamie Hewlett |
| 9 | Julien Baker | Turn Out the Lights | Design by Mike Zimmerman |
| 10 | Hater | Red Blinders | Photography by Niklas Wennerstrand
Layout by Alex Hornsby & Hater |
2016 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Last Shadow Puppets | Everything You've Come to Expect | Design by Matthew Cooper, photography by Jack Robinson |
| 2 | David Bowie | Blackstar | Design by Jonathan Barnbrook |
| 3 | Mark Prichard | Under the Sun | Design by Jonathan Zawada |
| 4 | Suede | Night Thoughts | Art Direction by Paul Khera, Brett Anderson, Mat Osman,
Neil Codling and Didz Hammond. Photography by Lucy Ray |
| 5 | White Lies | Friends | Art Direction & Design by Markus Bagå
at Big Active Design |
| 6 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | The Getaway | Artwork by Kevin Peterson |
| 7 | Shura | Nothing's Real | Art Direction and Design
Mat Maitland at Big Active Photography by Andrew Whitton Illustration by Louise Pomeroy |
| 8 | Kula Shaker | K 2.0 | Artwork by Kate Bayley.
Design by Stylorouge |
| 9 | Leonard Cohen | You Want It Darker | Design by Sammy Slabbinck |
| 10 | James Blake | The Colour in Anything | Design by Quentin Blake |
2015 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Gilmour | Rattle that Lock | Dave Stansbie and the Creative Corporation, photography by Rupert Truman |
| 2 | Drenge | Undertow | Photography by Donald Milne, design by Matthew Cooper |
| 3 | Tame Impala | Currents | Design by Robert Beatty |
| 4 | Everything Everything | Get to Heaven | Illustrated by Andrew Archer. Design by Jonny Costello, Adult Art Club. |
| 5 | Blur | The Magic Whip | Design by Tony Hung |
| 6 | Linden | Rest and Be Thankful | Artwork by Jim Lambie |
| 7 | Jamie xx | In Colour | Artwork by Jamie Smith & Phil Lee |
| 8 | And So I Watch You From Afar | Heirs | Artwork layout Sonny Kay |
| 9 | Blend Mishkin & Roots Evolution | Survival of the Fittest | Cover design by Ben Menter. Logo Design by QBMix |
| 10 | Kate Boy | One Digital | 3D Design by Lee Griggs |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from the following referenced article:[14]
2014 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Blood | Royal Blood | Dan Hillier and Richard Welland |
| 2 | FKA twigs | LP1 | Jesse Kanda |
| 3 | Future Islands | Singles | Beth Hoeckel and Matt de Jong |
| 4 | Foo Fighters | Sonic Highways | Stephan Martinière |
| 5 | Röyksopp & Robyn | Do It Again (EP) | Kacper Kasprzyk, Sandberg and Timonen |
| 6 | Caribou | Our Love | Matthew Cooper and Jason Evans |
| 7 | La Roux | Trouble in Paradise | Alexander Brown, Elly Jackson, Louie Banks and Roger Deckker |
| 8 | SBTRKT | Wonder Where We Land | SBTRKT & A Hidden Place |
| 9 | Bombay Bicycle Club | So Long, See You Tomorrow | La Boca |
| 10 | Sohn | Tremors | Allison Fielding and Sohn |
2013 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Lies | Big TV | Michael Kagan, Gerard Saint and Markus Karlsson |
| 2 | dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip | Repent Replenish Repeat | Paul Jackson |
| 3 | Bonobo | The North Borders | Leif Podhajsky |
| 4 | Washed Out | Paracosm | Sara Cwynar |
| 5 | Braids | Flourish // Perish | Marc Rimmer |
| 6 | Atoms For Peace | Judge, Jury and Executioner | Stanley Donwood |
| 7 | !!! | Thr!!!er | Chase Jarvis, !!! and James Burton |
| 8 | Daft Punk | Get Lucky | Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Cedric Hervet, Paul Hahn and Warren Fu |
| 9 | Boards of Canada | Tomorrow's Harvest | Boards of Canada |
| 10 | Paul McCartney | New | Rebecca and Mike, YES, Ben Ib. |
2012 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Temper Trap | The Temper Trap | Alberto Seveso and Boat Studios |
| 2 | Keane | Strangeland | Alex Lake and Tourist |
| 3 | Muse | The 2nd Law | Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA and Travis Shinn |
| 4 | Mark Lanegan Band | Blues Funeral | Alison Fielding |
| 5 | White Lung | Sorry | Justin Gradin |
| 6 | Enter Shikari | A Flash Flood of Colour | Ian Johnsen, Paul Blundell and Dave Thomas |
| 7 | Saint Etienne | Words and Music | Dorothy |
| 8 | Richard Hawley | Standing at the Sky's Edge | Nick Phillips and Richard Tailby |
| 9 | Jack White | Blunderbuss | Animal Rummy and Jo McCaughey |
| 10 | The Hives | Lex Hives | Henrik Walse |
2011 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bright Eyes | The People's Key | Zack Nipper |
| 2 | Cults | Cults | Dave Bett and Jeannette Kaczorowski |
| 3 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | Gregory Euclide |
| 4 | Washed Out | Within and Without | Ernest Greene, Jeff Kleinsmith and Martien Mulder |
| 5 | Kasabian | Velociraptor! | Aitor Throup at A.T. Studio |
| 6 | The Strokes | Angles | Guy Pouppez |
| 7 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues | Toby Liebowitz, Sean Pecknold and Dusty Summers |
| 8 | Cut Copy | Zonoscope | ALTER |
| 9 | Coldplay | Mylo Xyloto | Tappin Gofton |
| 10 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Belong | Winston Chmielinski |
2010 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Klaxons | Surfing the Void | Richard Robinson and Gareth Pritchard |
| 2 | Caribou | Swim | Mathew Cooper and Jason Evans |
| 3 | Pablo Cahn and Cesar Merveille | Split EP | Amelie Nicolet |
| 4 | Junip | Fields | Fredrik Söderberg and Robert Samsonowitz |
| 5 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | Caroline Robert, Vincent Morriset and Gabriel Jones |
| 6 | Goldfrapp | Head First | Alison Goldfrapp, Mat Maitland and Serge Leblon |
| 7 | MGMT | Congratulations | Anthony Ausgang |
| 8 | Edwyn Collins | Losing Sleep | Edwyn Collins |
| 9 | Scissor Sisters | Night Work | Robert Mapplethorpe |
| 10 | Flying Lotus | Pattern+Grid World | Theo Ellsworth |
2009 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muse | The Resistance[20] | La Boca |
| 2 | Manic Street Preachers | Journal for Plague Lovers | Jenny Saville |
| 3 | Fever Ray | Fever Ray | Martin Ander |
| 4 | Massive Attack | Splitting the Atom | Tom Hingston and Robert del Naja |
| 5 | Green Day | 21st Century Breakdown | Chris Bilheimer |
| 6 | Pet Shop Boys | Yes | Farrow Design |
| 7 | White Lies | To Lose My Life... | Mat Maitland and Gerard Saint |
| 8 | Editors | In this Light and on this Evening | Liliane Lijn and Tom Simon Mills |
| 9 | La Roux | La Roux | Alexander Brown and Traffic |
| 10 | Depeche Mode | Sounds of the Universe | Anton Corbijn |
2008 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes[22] | Pieter Brueghel the Elder |
| 2 | Roots Manuva | Slime & Reason | Oscar Bauer & Ewan Robertson |
| 3 | Coldplay | Viva la Vida | Eugène Delacroix |
| 4 | Goldfrapp | Seventh Tree | Alison Goldfrapp, Mat Maitland and Serge Leblon |
| 5 | Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid | Oliver East |
| 6 | Metallica | Death Magnetic | Turner Duckworth |
| 7 | Bloc Party | Intimacy | Rob Crane and Perry Curtis |
| 8 | Low Motion | Keep It Slow | Chris Bolton, Pascal Mira Tschäni and Michael Husmann Tschäni |
| 9 | Santogold | Santogold | Isabelle Lumpkin |
| 10 | Zombie Zombie | Dog Walker | Sylvestre Hovart |
2007 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cribs | Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever | Rob Crane |
| 2 | Editors | An End Has a Start | Idris Khan at Tom Hingston Studio |
| 3 | The Nextmen | Let it Roll 12" Single | Joe Pilbeam |
| 4 | Eva Be | No Memory of Time | Kathrin Jackmann, Boris Meinhold |
| 5 | Thurston Revival | Somewhere There's an Angel 12" Single | Julie Bennett |
| 6 | Various Artists | We Are Silver EP | John Gilsenan at iwant |
| 7 | Unkle | Burn My Shadow 12" | Robert Del Naja |
| 8 | The Rakes | Ten New Messages | Rob Crane |
| 9 | Interpol | Our Love to Admire | Seth Smoot |
| 10 | Husky Rescue | Caravan 12" | Kustaa Saksi |
2006 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thom Yorke | The Eraser | Stanley Donwood |
| 2 | The Pipettes | We Are The Pipettes | Pete Hellicar |
| 3 | Hot Chip | Over and Over | Darren Wall (Wallzo) |
| 4 | Keane | Under the Iron Sea | Sanna Annukka |
| 5 | Franz Ferdinand | The Fallen 12" single | Franz Ferdinand and Mathew Cooper |
| 6 | The Fratellis | Costello Music | Sam Hadley and Mark James |
| 7 | Morrissey | Ringleader of the Tormentors | Morrissey, Antony Lui and Fabio Lavino |
| 8 | Isolée | The Western Edits Pt. 2 | Stefan Marx |
| 9 | DJ Shadow | The Outsider | Paul Insect |
| 10 | Oasis | Stop the Clocks | Peter Blake |
2005 Winners[edit]
| Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard-Fi | Stars of CCTV | Albion |
| 2 | Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better | Mathew Cooper |
| 3 | Gorillaz | Demon Days | Jamie Hewlett |
| 4 | Robbie Williams | Intensive Care | Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Hamish Brown |
| 5 | Madonna | Confessions on a Dancefloor | Steven Klein and Giovanni Bianco |
| 6 | Coldplay | X&Y | Tappin Gofton |
| 7 | Mylo | Destroy Rock & Roll | Phantom |
| 8 | Goldfrapp | Supernature | Mat Maitland and Gerard Saint |
| 9 | Kaiser Chiefs | Employment | Cally |
| 10 | Kanye West | Late Registration | Morning Breath, Inc. |
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