Miscellaneous: A vast collection of the best vintage illustrated record sleeves you'll ever see

Doesn’t it just boggle your MIND how good every single record sleeve is? Whether you’re rummaging through a mouldy box at a car boot sale or flicking through a friend’s collection, it’s always astonishing to see the level of craftsmanship by potentially entirely unknown artists that decorates this packaging. For me the illustrated ones are always my favourite – pastel colours, psychedelic typography and cute happy cartoons – which is why when we came across this archive, it kind if made my Friday.

The Audio Preservation Fund is a non-profit organisation whose mission is “to preserve the music and sound recordings comprising the aural history of our world by expanding sound recording collections in public archives, libraries, museums, universities and research centres.” We stumbled across this wonderful archive when perusing the blog Midcenturia which is an equally vast treasure trove of design goodies from the present day way back to the 1920s. There are just too many cool things in the world, right?