#Hipgnosis

[thefugitivesaint]

Bush Hollyhead (1949-2020), ''The English Difference'' by Paul Jennings, 1974 I think Hollyhead is probably most famous for the quick cover-up he did for the Hipgnosis cover for Led Zeppelin’s album 'Houses of the Holy' in 1973. The logotype that Hollyhead dashed off to cover up part of Hipgnosis' artwork became synonymous with Led Zeppelin. (I'm not a big Led Zeppelin fan so I didn't know until making this post that the cover of 'Houses of the Holy' was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 'Childhood’s End', an idea from the mind of the designer Aubrey Powell and that the kids in that album cover are climbing Giant’s Causeway in Ireland. Or that it's just two kids, siblings, who "were photographed over the course of ten days at dawn and at dusk." Also, another related tidbit, one of Hollyhead's colleagues, George Hardie, who was part of the same artistic studio, did Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' with Hollyhead adding an airbrush glow to the design.

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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here  

📷  Aubrey "po" Powell & Hipgnosis, 1975

[n64retro]

[vinyl-artwork]

Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds, Import japonais, 1972.

Cover by Hipgnosis.

[pinkfloydbt]

Storm Thorgerson and Roger Waters

Screenshot from SQUARING THE CIRCLE (The Story of Hipgnosis) 🎥 2022 - Dir. Anton Corbjin

[more-relics]

Pink Floyd - Empire Theatre, Liverpool England, British Winter tour November 1974. © Hipgnosis

[conformi]

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, Pyramid and Rainbow, 1782-1784 VS George Hardie, Hipgnosis, Pink Floyd “The Dark Side of the Moon” album cover, Harvest Records, 1973

[searchsystem]

Harry Pearce, Jon Marshall & Aubrey Powell / Pentagram & Hipgnosis / Pink Floyd / The Dark Side Of The Moon / Box Set / 2023

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[karidley]

I didn't realize how much Pink Floyd's album artwork imprinted itself on my soul until my first thought at totality was "Pink Floyd's artist nailed it, the uncanny well ringed by pure white light"

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Hipgnosis was a British art design group (1968-1982) that specialized in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands

[modernmanblues]

so imagine this, it’s the 1970s and you’re one of England’s top bands. you tell Storm Thorgerson an idea for an album cover and you say to him “something with a sheep, a psychiatrist’s couch and the location must be somewhere in hawaii.”

Storm will simply tell you “alright, give me a minute” and he will literally pull something like this…

…that man is literally a gift from God. he’s so bloody talented i want to kiss the bastard.

[pasajera-en-trance]

you cried for the moon

Shine on you crazy diamond

[nicoooooooon]

“Peter Gabriel” (aka “Peter Gabriel 1”, aka “Car”) cover art (1977) design and photography by Hipgnosis

The artwork is on display as part of the exhibition The Art of Hipgnosis at the Groninger Museum. From the exhibition notes:

The design is inspired by the observation of droplets of rain on a car bonnet. Shot in black and white, with Peter Gabriel sitting in the passenger seat of a Lancia Flavia sprayed with water. The artwork was hand-coloured, and each droplet highlight scraped clean with a scalpel.

The Art of Hipgnosis runs until the 14th of May 2023 at the Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands.

[more-relics]

Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson in the courtyard of their Denmark Street studio, 1971. Peter Christopherson © Hipgnosis.

[thegroovywitch]

New Robert and Jimmy interviews ✨

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were recently interviewed for the upcoming Hipgnosis documentary “Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis)” and they can be seen in the trailer:

The movie will be released in US cinemas on June 20 <3