Secret 7" has revealed its list of 700 designers contributing covers to this year's seven-inch charity project.
Secret 7" is an annual charity event where 700 seven-inch singles are put on sale, each with its own designer sleeve and some of them with covers by big-name artists and designers. The secret twist is that you won't know who created your sleeve or indeed the song that it's for until you've handed over your £45.
Today Secret 7" has unveiled its list of 700 contributors donating artwork (this year raising money for War Child), and nestled among them are some impressive names, including the brilliantly bonkers (and occasionally disturbing) Jake and Dinos Chapman, fashion designer Sir Paul Smith, the man behind The Angel of the North, Sir Antony Gormley, as well as Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood.
We've spotted a few more notable names in the list including Jon Burgerman, Matt (H) Booth and our own Luke O'Neill, plus Karl Pilkington. Yes, that Karl Pilkington. We're confused.
This year's singles are:
Black Sabbath - Age Of Reason,
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce,
Jake Bugg - Strange Creatures
Lorde - Team
Massive Attack - Karmacoma
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
T-Rex - Get It On
You can see this year's mystery artwork here, and the sleeves themselves will be on show at Downstairs At Mother in London on 12 and 13 April, then on Record Store Day, 19 April. If you want to buy something, we'd recommend getting there as early as possible.
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Jim McCauley is a writer, performer and cat-wrangler who started writing professionally way back in 1995 on PC Format magazine, and has been covering technology-related subjects ever since, whether it's hardware, software or videogames. A chance call in 2005 led to Jim taking charge of Computer Arts' website and developing an interest in the world of graphic design, and eventually led to a move over to the freshly-launched Creative Bloq in 2012. Jim now works as a freelance writer for sites including Creative Bloq, T3 and PetsRadar, specialising in design, technology, wellness and cats, while doing the occasional pantomime and street performance in Bath and designing posters for a local drama group on the side.
