This fantastic rendition of Animal Collective’s My Girls by Taken By Trees was my favourite cover of 2009. I just discovered that Marcus Söderlund directed the video, this week.

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This just in, The Muppets perform Bohemian Rhapsody, in 1080p.

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Calling all students – my friends at Anorak want you to draw them a happy cover! But maybe you don’t want the exposure! Maybe you don’t want to have your artwork sitting on the shelf in places like the Tate Modern (they stock Anorak)! Do you? Get the full details here.

PS – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this magazine is so so sooo amazing.

Beck’s asked 10 Illustrators including McBess, Hellovon, Kid Acne, Si Scott, and Laura Jackaman to re-think the best albums of the last 40 years (gleaned from Pitchfork lists). Now the project is open to the public to contribute and complete the collection of 100.

Head over here to get involved.

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Submissions to Project #7 – Alter a Magazine! continue to roll in. Feel free to get involved! Hit that link for the instructions and upload form. Click here to see the first set of submissions.

Ian Caulkett

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The Jeff Death series by illustrator Matt Lee is a set of covers for books that do not exist, by an author that does not exist. His intent is to “mythologize a fictitious author”, with the titles of the books (which come from old songs) offering up a sort of narrative of their own.

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Fantastic mixed media comic book covers by Mark Todd. I love the really distorted ones, so raw and oozing nostalgia – obviously created by someone with a real love of comics.

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This is amazing. FormatMag has re-created 20 classic hip hop album covers outta Lego! Love the EPMD cover, the simpler the better.

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