ArtVinyl, makers of ingenious frames that enable you to make a work of art out of your record collection, have launched the Best Art Vinyl search for the most exciting record sleeves of 2009. With the help of a panel of graphic design and music industry experts, Art Vinyl have selected a shortlist of fifty sleeve designs.
Previous winners of the award include Hard-Fi's stark Stars of CCTV in 2005, Thom Yorke's The Eraser in 2006, The Cribs Man's Needs, Woman's Needs, Whatever in 2007. Last year’s winner was Fleet Foxes' eponymous first album, which won with more than 3,000 public votes.
Art Vinyl founder and managing director Andrew Heeps said: ‘The Art Vinyl award is about celebrating the emotional resonance of the best sleeve designs from 2009 and honouring some of those unsung hero's of art and design who provide the visual identity for so many bands and artists’.
The Best Art Vinyl 2009 shortlist will go on show at the Art Vinyl Gallery at Selfridges on Oxford St, London, the Snap Galleries in Birmingham, and the Georges House Gallery in Folkestone. All of the designs will be displayed in the unique Art Vinyl Play & Display Flip Frame. The winning designs will be displayed from January 2010.
Voting begins now at www.artvinyl.com and the winners will be announced on 5 January 2010.