Hip+Gnostic = Hipgnosis 

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Here, for you viewing pleasure, the work of Hipgnosis. The graphic genesis of Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, and Peter Christopherson. True pioneers in image making.

“Thorgerson & Powell’s surreal, elaborately manipulated photos were a film-based forerunner of what would, much later, be called photoshopping.” – wikipedia

Published on July 13, 2009 – 11:11 am | 4 Comments

By James Chae | Posted in Design / Graphic, Music | Tagged album covers, Design / Graphic, hipgnosis, Music |

4 Comments:

• Comment by jimmy soat — July 13, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

  first off. name: storm thorgerson_
  rad

  secondly. on the site: work_artist_10cc
  deceptive bends poster / 1975 phonogram.
  totally rad.

• Comment by Patrick Corrigan — July 13, 2009 @ 3:36 pm

  I just bought that Peter Gabriel album just for the cover. It’s AMAZING and totally different for it’s time. Nice1.

• Comment by Chris Ro — July 14, 2009 @ 4:04 am

  Yeah, I dig.

• Comment by Roberto Santellana — July 17, 2009 @ 3:53 pm

  Cool collection of work. I was just listening to that TRex album and thinking about how much of an impression it had on me when I first discovered it.

  Simple and icon.

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