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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]

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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

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
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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.