Graduate wins Elbow award
INTERACTIVE Arts graduate Oliver East designed one of the best album covers of 2008.
Oliver’s design for Elbow’s Mercury prize-winning album The Seldom Seen Kid was voted one of the five best sleeve designs last year.
The Top 50 Albums voted by worldwide users of ArtVinyl.com and published on the BBC put the Elbow cover ahead of hit albums by Metallica, Goldfrapp and Santogold.
Each year Art Vinyl puts on the event which celebrates the “visual magic of the record sleeve,” by choosing the 50 sleeve designs it deems the year’s best.
Since graduating Oliver, from Ancoats, Manchester has designed for the music industry and recently published a critically-acclaimed series of artbooks based on his alternative view of railways, called Trains Are…Mint.
The 29-year-old is also an associate lecturer on MMU’s Film Media with Practice course.
The Top Five album designs were:
- Fleet Foxes
- Roots Manuva, Slime & Reason
- Coldplay, Viva La Vida
- Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
- Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid
For the full list, visit www.artvinyl.com
Interactive Arts is a broadly-based course for students looking to be creative specialists and has produced artists such as Ryan Gander (Beck’s Future prize, Tate Britain) and Dan Keeling (MD at Island Records).
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