Best vinyl cover art of 2007

The Winners

Art Vinyl are honoured to announce the winners of the Best Art Vinyl 2007:

  1. The Cribs - Men's Needs Women's Needs Whatever, designed by Rob Crane at Work
  2. Editors - An End Has A Start, designed by Idris Khan at Tom Hingston Studio
  3. The Nextmen - Let It Roll, designed by Joe Pilbeam at FilthyMedia, Illustration by Alex Young.

Thank you to all those who voted and of course to the designers who have delivered such an excellent visual feast for our favourite popular music of 2007.

Each year Art Vinyl runs a competition to find the best record cover art. This year the three favourites were The Cribs, The Editors and The Nextmen as shown above. If you want to see the top 50 from 2007 or the previous years favourites, the following pdf and press release are available to download.

2007 Top 50 downloadable pdf file (962K)

Press Release Best Art Vinyl 2007 Winners Announced downloadable MSWord .doc file (116K)

2006 Top 50 downloadable pdf file (564K)

To find out more about the winning designs, please see this article from The Independent newspaper: 2007 was a vintage year for album cover art.

If you missed your opportunity to vote, please email us at info@artvinyl.com with your 3 favourite sleeves of all time and we will include them at a later date on our online gallery pages.

Wishing you all the best for 2008 from the Art Vinyl team:

Andrew, Simon, Sue, Lucie and Sally

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