![]() ![]() ![]() The cover artwork of the 80s by Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville usually gets the attention in design histories, but it was Hipgnosis, the design studio run by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and later Peter Christopherson, that jettisoned album cover art out of the usual fare of band mugshots to something far more epic. I am a child of the 70s and thus my angst-ridden teenage years were the 80s when the music video usurped the album cover as the marketing vehicle of choice. My father’s very battered copy of The Album Cover Album ![]() I spent many hours leafing through the pages and countless more staring at the details of the actual albums whilst trying to understand the lyrics of the songs I was listening to. Perhaps because he was a graphic designer, my dad also had an excellent book called The Album Cover Albumīy Storm Thorgerson and Roger Dean. My father, a graphic designer with his own studio in Percy Street in London in those days, had plenty of Pink Floyd and the like in his record collection. My older brother was into Led Zeppelin, Genesis and Peter Gabriel. Like many, my first really conscious contact with graphic design was via record covers. ![]() To understand why this book hits all the right sweet spots, we have to travel back in time. For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosisīy Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell is quite simply the most engaging and entertaining design book I have read all year. ![]()
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