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Art: Behold! The artwork for this year's Secret 7" is up! Including works from Jeremy Deller, Sir Paul Smith and more

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Date
25 March 2014

Nothing fails to warm my cockles and get the loose change in my wallet dancing about to be spent quite like Record Store Day. If the whole festival wasn’t good enough, Secret 7" is in their third year of bringing together a holy union of artists and musicians and have just announced some big-name creatives who have contributed artwork for this exciting project.

We were lucky enough to be invited to help comb through the thousands of designs sent in to this year’s Secret 7" and were blown away by the sheer volume of incredible artwork. As well as members of the public, some famous artists were asked to contribute some sleeves: Jeremy Deller, Sir Paul Smith, Modern Toss, and Sir Antony Gormley all contributed to this good cause, meaning some lucky customers are going to take home some very special artwork this year indeed.

The guys at Secret 7" and The Vinyl Factory have also made a little video interviewing some of the artists including Alex Chinneck, Fred Butler and Stanley Donwood about their submissions and the cause in question which you can check out below.

If you don’t already know, Secret 7" is a project that, for the past two years, has taken some of the world’s best-loved songs and asked people to design record sleeves for specially printed vinyl. The 700 or so records are then displayed in a sellout exhibition in Mother London where they can be bought for £45 each on Record Store Day with all proceeds going to War Child. The only catch is that the buyer will not know which song they are buying, or who created the sleeve until they get it home and play it. This year’s songs were as follows: Age of Reason by Black Sabbath, Grounds for Divorce by Elbow, Strange Creatures by Jake Bugg, Team by Lorde, Karmacoma by Massive Attack, Virginia Plain by Roxy Music and Get it On by T-Rex.

You can see all the artwork on offer over here at the online gallery, just make sure you get to Mother London early on the 19 April to snap up your favourite!

An illustration of a person wearing blue sunglasses with the US flag and dollar signs in the lenses. They hold a cigarette to their lips, with a single blue tear falling down their cheek.
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A 3D render of the words “Bang A Gong” in a rounded, tubular script. The colourful, gradient lettering is set against a solid black circle on a white background.
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Secret 7" 2014

An illustration of a stack of balanced stones against a plain white background. The stones are rendered in earthy tones of beige and brown, topped with a single yellow pebble.
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Secret 7" 2014

An illustration of a person in a blue suit and hat, walking against a yellow background. Their torso is open, revealing a chaotic tangle of colourful internal organs that trail behind them like a cape. Grey smoke billows from their head, drifting back into the air.
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A collage of a person reclining in a lounge chair, floating in a swimming pool filled with a cosmic nebula. The water is replaced by a dark starfield with swirling pink and purple clouds and a large yellow planet.
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Secret 7" 2014

A white illustration on a blue background featuring a scattered collection of body parts and celestial symbols. Disembodied heads, a leg, an arm, a heart and a pair of eyes are mixed with stars, moons and geometric shapes.
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Secret 7" 2014

An illustration of an orange synthesiser with a keyboard at the bottom. Above the keys are five analogue meters and three rows of blue control knobs, each labelled “OFF”.
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Secret 7" 2014

A black and white line illustration of two figures embracing against a bright yellow background. The figures are rendered in a minimalist, abstract style with bold, flowing outlines.
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Secret 7" 2014

An illustration of a figure with a glossy black, ribbed head wearing a wide-brimmed yellow hat. They are flanked by two pink, arm-like shapes with eyes and fingers against a peach and blue background.
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Secret 7" 2014

A colourful drawing of a giant pink pig standing in front of Tower Bridge. A person in a red top sits on the pig’s back, while a small green figure stands beneath it.
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Secret 7" 2014

An illustration of a wide, white eye set against a dark grey background. The pupil is a black circle surrounded by a bold red ring.
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Secret 7" 2014

Two people dance on a black and white checkered floor in front of a gold tinsel backdrop. One person wears white boxers and black socks, while the other wears a grey bralette and a pleated orange skirt. A neon sign of a cocktail glass with the word “Cocktails” glows behind them.
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An illustration of a surreal, tangled composition of figures and shapes in teal, red and white. A green creature with an open mouth holds a thin line in its teeth, while a pale limb and a single eye emerge from the centre.
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Secret 7" 2014

An illustration of a person with voluminous black hair, framed by a pale, stippled halo. They wear an ornate, high-collared garment made of intricate black and white patterns, set against a black background filled with floating eyes.
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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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