The Sam Bailey album sleeve: your submissions

A couple of weeks ago we talked you all through the Sam Bailey album artwork.

The issue, really, was nothing to do with Sam herself — you win The X Factor, you turn up at the recording studio when you're told to and the rest is in someone else's hands. Instead, it was about the care and attention that goes into this par­tic­u­lar X Factor winner's career.

Anyway, we asked you if you could do better and below you'll find the sleeves you submitted. The sub­mis­sions fall into nine distinct cat­egor­ies but brace yourselves, because some of what follows is pretty alarming.

Category 1: BEYONCALIKES

Alex Bal.

Will Grove.

Ross Haig.

Sean Lennon.

Category 2: A HINT OF GAGA

Daibhid MacCann.

Alex Firth.

Alex Lodge.

Sean Lennon.

Luke Donegan.

Category 3: SHE USED TO WORK IN A PRISON YOU KNOW

Christopher Lawless.

Stuart Taylor.

Nick Morrison.

Bozo Kevic.

Ian Armstead.

Category 4: HOW ABOUT WE MAKE IT LOOK LIKE SOMEONE ELSE'S ALBUM

Paul Freeman.

Joshua Lawrence.

Rhodri Marsden.

Joshua Lawrence.

Patrick Robertson.

Sean Lennon.

Leo Karam.

Sean Lennon.

Tom McNab. ("After flipping it, I rotated her head to a not-so-tilty fashion and was beginning to get Madonna vibes, so I thought how amazingly shit would it look if I was to com­pletely rip-off the Something To Remember artwork..?")

Sean Lennon.

Category 5: CLEVER WORDPLAY

Neil Claxton. ("Just to explain, Sam’s surname is almost the same as a popular brand of housewive’s ruin which her core fan base will relate to so I thought the artwork could reflect that. My proposed album title is sort of eponymous if you don’t look eponymous up in the dic­tion­ary. My choice of typeface, the font from Star Wars, is to emphasis Sam is a STAR herself.")

Michael Ellard. ("Thanks for giving me a reason to not go outside and talk to people. Total godsend. As requested, I've rebranded her.")

Mark Hatt.

Marcus Bond.

Category 6: ACTUALLY MAKING AN EFFORT AT TRYING TO SALVAGE THIS WHOLE THING

Luke Donegan.

Cody Aker.

Andreas Stahl. ("I'll see if I can give this a complete overhaul at some point. For now: I put a little more makeup on her and made it a smidgen classier. Both are similar, one is more gran-friendly and one is more modern.")

Tom Ashlee. ("Can't go wrong with a bit of symmetry.")

Bradley. ("Her artwork might aswell have comic sans on it, it's that bad and I thought Nicholas McDonald's was bad, god damn. At first I made the cover with the title "Power Of Love" and it looked so much prettier but I realised the title was wrong so i rejigged it.")

Dejan Cancar.

David Ramsay. ("Sam Bailey is a Strong woman with a Strong voice and her album is called The Power of Love, I thought it appro­pri­ate that instead of col­lapsing on an invisible table, she should be doing pull-ups.  I thought the text could do with being bigger, bolder, and more con­spicu­ous too.")

Mark Wilson. ("I wanted to spend longer on this but works been a bit much this week, I made this during a work con­fer­ence call — its just made up purely of lots and lots of the cover image layered on top of each other, theres nothing else in there.")

Andreas Stahl.

William Gremliza. ("Well, lunch was terribly boring today… Though appar­ently now sam looks like she's selling shampoo in the seventies, she could do much worse.")

Ian Kudzinowski.

Tom McNab.

Adam.

Panagiotis Moggolias.

Daibhid MacCann. ("I thought I'd go for something in between Kelis and Disclosure. You're welcome, SYCO.")

Felipe Garzon. ("Sending some design love to Sam all the way from Rio, Brazil!")

King Leo. ("I saw the abom­in­a­tion that was her artwork for the album and I almost shed a tear, almost. I'm not saying my rendition is better, but I'm also not saying it's not. Anyway, here it is. I think it would look better as a Christmas single with a Santa hat on, but I held myself and tried to make it semi decent.")

Category 7: A LITTLE BIT OF SATIRE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

Brett Carter.

Neil Armstead.

Berrie van der Molen.

Dan Carne. ("I think you'll find this scary and arousing all at the same time. Here's to hoping that's a new sensation for you."

Faux Faux.

Adam Clarke.

Adam Clarke.

Cody Aker.

Martin Gallagher.

Category 8: BLOODY HELL

Brett Barnett.

Cody Aker.

Steven Bayliss. ("She should change her name like Harry Webb or Reg Dwight to something edgy & snazzy. Play on her past a bit, the 3 things people know about her are; she has kids, she was a prison officer & she doesn’t mind being upstaged by pussycat dolls. Well I’m happy with it anyway.")

Liam Healy.

Zack Holland.

Will Grove.

Paul McGee.

Samantha Sheldon. ("This mas­ter­piece took a whole 20 minutes, I’m not even kidding.")

Tom Ashlee.

Plonkymiff.

James Rawson. ("Much attached.")

Gold Starks.

Ben Marper. ("This literally took like 2 minutes, apologies for the shiteness of it, but your website is class so thought might as well give it a go, it'd make me mum proud (she's not sam bailey).")

Ralf Rotterdam.

Category 9: CLUTCHING AT STRAWS

Mark de Jong.

Melody Bowles.

William Tedford.

Dylan Patel. ("I have no idea what was going through my head, but I'm about to get on a flight so THIS WILL BLOODY WELL HAVE TO DO.")

Tom Walker.

Androo Gwynn.

Rebecca Heffron. ("I felt it needed more danger and emotional blackmail.")

Hugo Corkey. ("I ran out of energy and the writing's off centre etc but i still think it's better than the official… Figured I should send it since i spent 5 precious minutes of my time and don't know who the lady is.")

Alex Giguere. ("The black and white gives it a classic sort of feel, like an Adele or Emeli Sande cover that will be sure to WOW on Mothers Day. I was also con­sid­er­ing using "Wingdings" as a font, but I felt the hand­writ­ten text was a better choice, certainly more suitable than times fucking new roman.")

Nick Morrison.

Mark Stebbing.

Brett Carter.

George.

Josh M. ("Here she is climbing the ladder to success. I also reduced her name as it is a lot to remember.")

BUT THERE COULD ONLY BE ONE WINNER

And that winner is:

Congratulations, Pat Scullion, for designing the winning S.Ba album sleeve. We will be in touch to discuss the delivery of your prize. (We still don't know what it will be.)

And thanks everyone for sending in their efforts.

(Thanks to some more than others.)