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Awards
Muse cover wins artwork award
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 6 January 2010
Muse or, rather, London-based designers La Boca have won the Artvinyl award for best album artwork of the year. The annual award is presented by the Art Vinyl Gallery, and this year goes to La Boca for their artwork for Muse’s ‘The Resistance’ album. The artists behind the artwork for the Manic Street Preachers ‘Journal Of Plague Lovers’ and Fever Ray’s eponymous debut (Jenny Saville and Martin Ander respectively) were runners up.
Art Vinyl’s Director Andrew Heeps told reporters the artwork award is “a great way to celebrate the unsung heroes behind the art and design of some of our favourite bands and artists. 2009 has been a particularly fantastic year for the award as we have seen lots of new talent mixing with some of the well known names of the sleeve design and the art world such as Damian Hirst and Jenny Saville”.
He added: “With CD sales losing their importance, the canvas that a vinyl record sleeve provides is really adding value for the owner, as they are also purchasing a piece of collectable art. Also, both the majors and indie labels are investing money in really stand-out sleeve art”.
Fifty designs were shortlisted for the award, and they will be displayed at The Art Vinyl Gallery in Selfridges London, the Snap Galleries in Birmingham and the Georges House Gallery in Folkestone.
