Art Vinyl’s sleeves of 2008

1st place: Fleet Foxes’ Fleet Foxes. Design: Dusty Summers, Sasha Barr and Robin Pecknold (original painting: Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559)
Art Vinyl, the London-based gallery (and purveyor of the Play and Display sleeve frame), has revealed the results of their competition to find the best vinyl sleeve of 2008. With all online votes counted, Fleet Foxes’ debut album emerged as the winner. Interestingly, both it and third placer, Coldplay’s Viva la Vida, make use of historic paintings. Click through for highlights from AV’s list and a few of our favourites that didn’t quite make their top 20…

A Monster New Year!

A little belated perhaps but couldn’t resist posting this sweet new year’s film from Stefan Bucher, creator of The Daily Monster website. Happy 2009!

Let’s form a committee…

Image by clagnut via Flickr
Most design committees are a recipe for disaster or inactivity, says Mike Dempsey, so what should we expect from the Mayor of London’s recently unveiled Design Advisory Panel? Well, with no graphic, digital or motion designers on board, the early signs aren’t looking that good…

Change the Record

Our first twee spot of ’09: the new Audi Q5 ad featuring Woody Guthrie’s Car Song
Twee, acoustic, folksy music accompanies practically every second ad on TV at the moment. We first noticed the trend back in mid 2007 – a list of sappy offenders compiled here – but when, we ask, will it end? Joining our discussion: Dan Stevens, a director at music PR and management company, Darling Department; Parv Thind, sound designer at Wave; and Peter Raeburn, founder and creative director of music production company, Soundtree.

Slumdog Millionaire Trailer Remix

Addictive TV has created this remix of Danny Boyle’s hotly tipped new movie, Slumdog Millionaire, which is released in the UK on Friday. The movie tells the story of an illiterate street kid from Mumbai, who gets the opportunity to go on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Shanghai scene

Old trainers and new freedoms: Patrick Burgoyne reports
from Creative Social Shanghai on a rapidly changing city

Projector

It all began with a word. And the word was Uniqlock. The nifty gadget that took the ad world by storm.

Conflicting view

Suzanne Opton’s controversial billboard portraits of serving
US soldiers have impressed, bewildered and outraged

Change the record

Twee, acoustic, folksy music accompanies practically every second ad on TV at the moment. When, we ask, will it end?

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