We have already covered some great album cover recreations with Lego and perlplättor, now we turn to the magic of MS Paint. Since 2007 members of the foreverdoomed.com forum and stonerrock.com forum have showed of their MS Paint skills with some great results. Here are some of our favorites:

In November Art Vinyl with the help from Creative Review’s Mark Sinclair, Rough Trade’s Spencer Hicks and John Doran from The Quietus shortlisted 50 record sleeves and invited everyone to cast their vote. The results are in and the winner of the best vinyl album cover of 2009 is:

It’s time to pick the best record cover sleeve of 2009. Art Vinyl with the help from Creative Review’s Mark Sinclair, Rough Trade’s Spencer Hicks and John Doran from The Quietus have shortlisted 50 sleeves and you can now have your say and cast your vote for the best cover art of 2009.
Last year’s winner [...]

You can make pretty much anything with Lego. Or maybe not, but at least you can recreate some of the most iconic record covers ever made with it. Speckboy has put together a list of 30 classic album covers in Lego,  featuring albums from artists like Bob Dylan, Oasis, Radiohead, Iron Maiden, The Beatles and [...]

The large cover art is a huge part of the vinyl experience and we’re on a constant lookout for nice designs. It never stops amazing us how much great design is out there. Two of our favorite sites for cover art are Hardformat and LP Cover Lover. While the former focuses mainly on contemporary designs [...]

Blue Note Records, the legendary jazz label, who gave us artists like Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson and many more, turned 70 in January.  At least a small part of Blue Note’s success must be dedicated to Reid Miles, who joined Blue Note in 1956. His inventive use of type, [...]

The latest music related meme on Facebook is the album cover art game. If you feel the itch to join and create some cover art this is the way it should be done:
1. Go to “Wikipedia” and Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2. [...]

Browsing the Internet yesterday I found an interesting article in Wired titled; “Designers Work to Rescue a Dying Art Form — the Album Cover.” It was written back in February last year so it´s a little bit dated. However, that doesn´t make it less interesting. The author examines how labels are working to re-create the [...]