Hipgnosis: C or D?

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no roger dean, no credibility

The Cranberries and Catherine Wheel covers they did were pretty dire, but I dig the Peter Gabriel ones they did.

I really like the design on this one, but that awful font used in the band logo just about kills it:

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Cool, we have a Hipgnosis thread in place already.

I love the set photography they employed sometimes, the way they made it look oddly flat and lifeless. This cover is creepy.

http://www.shreddernet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/UFO-Phenomenon-1974.jpg

storm thorgerson died just like two days ago, sorry to break it to you now :(

Hah, yea I know thanks, I just didn't want to post pics on his RIP thread that may have been mostly Powell or Christopherson's work.

I never thought of it before, but it seems like they used a lot of hand colored black and white photos. That UFO one is definitely one, the first peter gabriel in the car is one, and I think Atom Heart Mother is too.

Was there never an Arena or Omnibus type documentary on Hipgnosis? If not, a missed opportunity. Just found this genial interview with French TV though: https://vimeo.com/406174252

I think I saw something anyway. Think it may be something that is mentioned in relation to Sleazy christopherson though that's probably not the most frequent of subjects either.

Have definitely read a couple of coffee table books on the artwork

There was a documentary made about Storm & Hipnosis a few years back, I haven't managed to see it yet.

I just bought Po's book, it is really lovely actually and looks like a pretty good read.

They went off the boil rapidly when Sleazy wasn't involved.

XP - Hipgnosis *ugh*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipgnosis_Songs_Fund

buyingit all up

Hipgnosis the IP holding company is named after the design studio, but there's no relationship otherwise.

Ironic example of IP infringement

here's a question for you though: how many acts in the hipgnosis songs fund portfolio had record sleeves designed by hipgnosis?

We need that data.

TVMNIC = no lixor has yet pointed out that the couple in the image in that first post are sleazy's colleagues genesis p.orridge and cosey fanny tutti

i say lixor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OYQNAk_krQ

Looks promising. The recent Through The Prism book was great but seeing actual footage of some of those photo shoots would be priceless.

i like that it's called "Squaring the Circle" right next to an image of a triangle

although it looks like most of the promo materials have that same picture with the Atom Heart Mother art, not Dark Side... so nvm carry on

Saw that trailer last night, plays here in a couple of weeks, really looking forward to it. (I think the theatre's program guide says it's Corbijn's first film, which isn't really even close.) Art-rock fan in high school, when all these albums were new, long since moved on, but they do seem to be a foundational part of the decade.

it's kind of his first documentary i think (if you don't count depeche mode live concert vids)

Documentary was pretty good, although honestly, many of those covers look as silly as the caricature would have it. (And I don't think they ever designed a cover as great as Neil Young's Time Fades Away or On the Beach, or many, many other personal favourites.) Corbijn does something interesting at the end: Powell and Thorgerson have their falling out, which seems to be in the mid-'90s, Powell says they didn't talk for another 12 years, then the film ends with Thorgerson's death in 2013. Which means they did talk and maybe even reconcile at some point. But he skips that for the sadder ending.

A lot of Noel Gallagher.

The documentary is well worth catching (it’s on streaming services in the Uk). Some lovely archival stuff from the 60’s and 70’s…most of the Storm interviews have been shown elsewhere but it’s worth watching for the ‘Animals’ anecdote alone…I agree too much Noel Gallagher (not sure he needed to be involved??) and possibly produced more shit covers than great but quite moving in the end…quite candid about Sleazy too…all I’ll say is he enjoyed working in a mortuary probably more somebody should…

Gallagher kinda ruined this for me. I think I was wanting a different kind of documentary - certainly a lot more of Roger Dean and Peter Saville.

I guess he was there to give the ‘man in the street’ angle but probably just a ‘man in the street’ (a Hipgnosis fan) would of been more illuminating

Old interview footage, and who has the rights to use them, is always an issue in these things. There's a great interview with Richard Wright from the Classic Album episode on DSOTM where he talks at length about the cover and articulates what pulled him in - whereas here, it's "Rick Wright first noticed it"