# Best Art Vinyl

Best Art Vinyl is an annual award that began in 2005. It celebrates artists and designers of album cover art. The nomination process begins in November and the winners are announced in January, and are exhibited at venues across the United Kingdom and Europe. The 50 shortlisted records and winners are voted for by an expert judging panel within the world of art and music and are displayed using Art Vinyl's unique Play & Display Flip Frame.

## 2024 winners

| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Cover artist |
| 1 | Hiatus Kaiyote | Love Heart Cheat Code | Creative Direction by Hiatus Kaiyote & Grey Ghost. Cover art by Rajni Perera. Symbol art by Chloe Biocca. Product Design by Sean Preston |
| 2 | Fontaines D.C. | Romance | Cover images by Lulu Lin. Design & Art Direction by Texas Maragh & Carlos O’Connell. Photography by Theo Cottle |
| 3 | Carlita | Sentimental | Cover photography by Louis Browne |
| 4 | Geordie Greep | The New Sound | Cover artwork by Toshio Saeki. Art Direction Geordie Greep. Layout by Philip Laslett. |
| 5 | Future Islands | People Who Aren't There Anymore | Cover art by Beedallo. Design & Creative Direction by Nolen Štrāls |
| 6 | Oh Hiroshima | All Things Shining | Artwork by Wilson Trouve |
| 7 | Naima Bock | Below A Massive Dark Land | Art by Naima Bock |
| 8 | Sam Morton | Daffodils & Dirt | Cover image by Nick Waplington |
| 9 | Rosali | Bite Down | Cover Photo by Asia Harman |
| 10 | Anna Calvi | Peaky Blinders: Season 5 & 6 Original Score | Artwork illustrations by Karl Fitzgerald. Design by Matthew Cooper |

## 2023 winners

| Rank | Musical artist | Album | Cover 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 | Cover 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 |
| 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 | Cover artist |
| 1 | Villagers | Fever Dreams | Artwork by Paul Phillips at True Spilt Milk Designs. Design by Matthew Cooper, assisted by Paul J Street |
| 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 |
| 1 | Klone | Le Grand Voyage | Artist and Photographer: Francesco Dell'Orto |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 1 | Editors | Violence | Designer: Rahi Rezvani |
| 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 | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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 | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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 |
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## 2014 winners

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover artist |
| 1 | Muse | The Resistance | 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover artist |
| 1 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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

| Rank | Musical artist | Name | Cover 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. |