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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[13]

2015 Winners

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

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

[15]

2013 Winners

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.

[16]

2012 Winners

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

[17]

2011 Winners

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

[18]

2010 Winners

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

[19]

2009 Winners

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

[21]

2008 Winners

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

[23]

2007 Winners

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

[24]

2006 Winners

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

[25]

2005 Winners

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.

[26]

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