MDI Digital Ltd's cover artwork for Guitar Aficionado magazine has been selected as a finalist in the American Society of Magazine Editors Best Cover of the Year Awards, in the Lifestyle category.

The issue focused on the influence classic car design had on guitars of the same period.

"Amassing as much reference of the beautiful 1958 Chevy Corvette as possible, both inside & out," explains MDI's Matt Dartford, "we constructed an imaginary CG hybrid – where the complexity of car parts itertwine & overlap to eventually form the iconic silhouette of the Fender Stratocaster."