Best Art Vinyl
Best Art Vinyl is an annual award that first 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][8]
2013 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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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. |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Best Art Vinyl 2013 Winners and Nominees". London. 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
2012 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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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 |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Best Art Vinyl 2012 Winners and Nominees". London. 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
2011 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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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 |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Best Art Vinyl Winners - 2011". London. 2011-01-11. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
2010 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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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 EP | Theo Ellsworth |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Best Art Vinyl Winners - 2010". London. 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
2009 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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1 | Muse | The Resistance[9] | 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 |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Best Art Vinyl 2009 Winners". 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
2008 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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1 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes[10] | 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 |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Best Art Vinyl 2008 Winners". 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
2007 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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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 |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Vinyl Countdown: 2007". The Independent (London). 2008-01-14. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
2006 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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1 | Thom Yorke | The Eraser[11] | 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 | Isolee | The Western Edits Pt. 2 | Stefan Marx |
9 | DJ Shadow | The Outsider | Paul Insect |
10 | Oasis | Stop the Clocks | Peter Blake |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from "Best Art Vinyl 2006". 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
2005 Winners
Rank | Artist | Name | Artist |
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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. |
Some of the information in this table was obtained from Byrne, Ciar (2005-12-29). "The Independent, Music 2005". London. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
References
- ↑ "Muse, Florence and the Machine and La Roux among best record sleeves of 2009, the Telegraph". London: Telegraph.co.uk. 2010-01-07. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ By Fritz on November 18, 2009 9:59 AM (2009-11-18). "Art vinyl launches 5th annual album art competition". Blog.albumartexchange.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ "mono.bg article". mono.bg article. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ "Best art vinyl 2007 - The Winners, wichita-recordings.com news article". Wichita-recordings.com. 2008-01-08. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ The best album covers of the noughties, The Sun Archived 11 February 2011 at WebCite
- ↑ "today article". BBC News. 2010-01-05. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ "blog.eyemagazine.com article". blog.eyemagazine.com article. 2009-11-11. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ "news article". Digitalartsonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ "Rockers Muse win 2009 record cover prize, BBC News, 5 January 2010". BBC News. 2010-01-05. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ "Fleet Foxes win best art work award, the-fly.co.uk news article". The-fly.co.uk. 2009-01-05. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
- ↑ "Strangecargo news article". Strangecargo.org.uk. 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
External links
- Best Art Vinyl nominations
- Art Vinyls Sleeves of 2008
- Best Vinyl Cover Art of 2009
- Muse’s ‘The Resistance’ Wins Best Art Vinyl