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Art Vinyl

The Best Art Vinyl Award is the annual search for the most creative and well-designed record cover of the year. These pages include an archive of past winners and all 50 nominations from each year.

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Best Art Vinyl 2024

 

The final 50 nominees for Best Art Vinyl 2024 have been shortlisted by an expert panel, representing the world of vinyl sleeve art past and present, and collectively responsible for literally 10s of millions of iconic images found in households around the globe. The judges will also decide the ultimate winning artist to receive the prestigious award now in its 20th year.

This melting pot of creative talent gathered to inspect each of the submissions for this year’s art prize to whittle down 100s of outstanding cover art submissions to just 50 final nominees.

With a Panel collectively representing decades of experience in the world of album art and credited with cover art for music artists including Kate Bush, Blur, Paul McCartney, Elton John and Michael Jackson, the shortlist was always in good hands.

Our judges examined the records as an entire package down to the concept, print finish and even continuity of design through to the inner sleeves. For many of the panel, a well-tuned process of their day jobs within art and design.

Final top 3 winners for 2024 will be revealed at an Awards event and unique art installation of all shortlisted records on 9th January 2025 at The Hari in Belgravia, London.

The judging panel are:

  • Alison Fielding – Head of Creative at Beggars Group
  • Andrew Heeps – Founder of Art Vinyl
  • Bill Smith – Sleeve Designer and Author of Cover Stories: Five decades of Album Art – cover art credits include The Jam, Genesis and Kate Bush
  • Gerard Saint – Senior Partner of Big Active – cover art credits include Michael Jackson, Goldfrapp and Elton John. Best Art Vinyl 2013 winner for White Lies – ‘Big TV’
  • Matthew Cooper – mrcooper – cover art credits include Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Noel Gallagher. Best Art Vinyl 2016 winner for Last Shadow Puppets – ‘Everything You’ve Come to Expect’
  • Michelle Henning – michellehenning.co.uk writer, visual artist and Professor of Photography and Media at University of Liverpool. Winner of Best Art Vinyl 2023 for PJ Harvey – ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’
  • Paul Holbrook-Phillips – True Spilt Milk Designs – artwork credits include work for Lightning Bolt, Mastiff and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Best Art Vinyl 2021 winner for Villagers ‘Fever Dreams’
  • Rob O’Connor – Stylorouge Creative Consultants – cover art credits include Blur, Squeeze and Morrissey
  • Simon Monk – simonmonk.com – Artist and winner of Best Art Vinyl 2022 for Black Country New Road ‘Ants From Up Here’

BEST ART VINYL 2024 SHORTLISTED RECORDS DETAILS AND DESIGN CREDITS

KEY DATES

6th December: Full list of Nominated Records on www.artvinyl.com

Sunday 5th January – Saturday 1st February 2025: Best Art Vinyl 2024 Nominations Installation at The Hari London, Belgravia

Thursday 9th January 2025: Best Art Vinyl 2024 Winners will be announced at The Hari London Belgravia

 

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We take a look behind the artwork for some of the nominated records as we talk to the artists/designers to get the stories behind the covers in our ‘Uncovered’ Blog series

 

 

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