Artwork

Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and Gerald Scarfe's drawings for The Wall. Note how this segment is built. The 2024 sale of the band's catalogue included name and likeness, so the sleeves themselves are not reproduced here, including where a freely licensed photograph happens to show one on a gallery wall. What is here instead is the material that is genuinely photographable: the locations the images were made at, the physical objects and props, and the designers themselves talking about the work.

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63 moments in this segment.

  1. - Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell interviewed - Review, London, 1971. Storm Thorgerson co-founded Hipgnosis and designed the Dark Side of the Moon prism concept, the burning handshake, the Saunton Sands hospital beds and the Division Bell heads. He died on 18 April 2013.
  2. - An OGWT interview with Roger Dean, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell broadcast on Nov 12, 1974.. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. Hipgnosis designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell now oversees the band's visual output.
  3. - BBC Old Grey Whistle Test 12/11/1974 - Intervista con Storm Thorgerson / Aubrey Powell e Roger Dean. Intervista di Bob Harris con Aubrey Powell e Storm Thorgerson della Hipgnosis e Roger Dean (Yes) nel programma della BBC "Old Grey Whistle Test" del 12 novembre 1974. La Hipgnosis ha curato copertine per Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin e tanti altri.
  4. - Bande-Annonce : "The Wall" (1982), Alan Parker & Gerald Scarfe. Bande-Annonce TV du Film "The Wall" réalisé par Alan Parker & Gerald Scarfe (1982). Exercice réalisé au travers du cours de montage de la formation "Montage Vidéo / Effets Spéciaux" de l'école MJM Graphic Design. Consignes : - Durée 45 secondes dont 4 secondes finales de Packshot. - 2 secondes de noir au début.
  5. - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason – Album Cover Photo Shoot (2019 Remix Audio). Storm Thorgerson arranged roughly seven hundred hospital beds on Saunton Sands in Devon for the A Momentary Lapse of Reason sleeve. It was photographed for real rather than composited, which is the point of it.
  6. - Scarfe On Art (Gerald Scarfe documentary, BBC2, 1991). BBC2, 09-05-1991 (rptd on the UK Arena warm-up channel, 1998): "The canvas might cost you £17, the paints £4. So what's been added to make the painting worth up to £49 million? Gerald Scarfe steps through the gilded frame and discovers, behind the picture, a dangerous world of dark shadows - where real talent for art m...
  7. - The shore of Mono Lake, 1999. Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve in eastern California. The band themselves were rarely present for the photography that carried their name.
  8. - PINK FLOYD: Wish You Were Here (Storm Thorgerson Promo) - 2000. Storm Thorgerson co-founded Hipgnosis and designed the Dark Side of the Moon prism concept, the burning handshake, the Saunton Sands hospital beds and the Division Bell heads. He died on 18 April 2013.
  9. - Peter Christopherson. 1970s. He was also a founding member of Throbbing Gristle and later Coil.
  10. - Storm Thorgerson Concert Film - Pink Floyd. Storm Thorgerson co-founded Hipgnosis and designed the Dark Side of the Moon prism concept, the burning handshake, the Saunton Sands hospital beds and the Division Bell heads. He died on 18 April 2013.
  11. - For the Love of Vinyl: A Conversation with Aubrey Powell about Hipgnosis. A shorter version of Nate Pommer's film about Hipgnosis, featuring Aubrey Powell talking about For the Love of Vinyl, a book out now from PictureBox, in bookstores everwhere.
  12. - Storm Thorgerson. 1968 and designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. He died on 18 April 2013.
  13. - Gerald Scarfe - Long Drawn Trip -2.flv. Gerald Scarfe drew the animation, the inflatables and the sleeve for The Wall. The plain white brick cover is his, not Hipgnosis's, a break in the band's design history.
  14. - Storm Thorgerson with a camera. Storm Thorgerson founded Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell in London in 1968 and designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. He died on 18 April 2013.
  15. - Gerald Scarfe. 's visual language: the Teacher, the Judge, the Mother, the Wife and the Marching Hammers. He is alive and gives interviews. The sleeve of The Wall, plain white brick, is his, not Hipgnosis'.
  16. - Gerald Scarfe - 'Drawing Blood' documentary BBC4 2010. Gerald Scarfe drew the animation, the inflatables and the sleeve for The Wall. The plain white brick cover is his, not Hipgnosis's, a break in the band's design history.
  17. - Storm Thorgerson. 2010, during a week-long exhibition of large limited-edition prints of his work. He photographed the Atom Heart Mother cow, staged the hospital beds on Saunton Sands for A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and put the two metal heads in a field near Ely for The Division Bell. He died on 18 April 2013.
  18. - Gerald Scarfe on the making of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Gerald Scarfe drew the animation, the inflatables and the sleeve for The Wall. The plain white brick cover is his, not Hipgnosis's, a break in the band's design history.
  19. - Gerald Scarfe on Pink Floyd - The Wall movie. In this interview, Gerald talks about the movie of Pink Floyd - The Wall... One of a set of three exclusive video interviews with artist Gerald Scarfe for the www.Brain-Damage.co.uk website, to tie in with the publication of his new book looking at Pink Floyd - The Wall.
  20. - Younger Brother interview Storm Thorgerson. This is a clip of Younger Brother interviewing the legendary graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, the man behind the album covers of Muse, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin , Shpongle and Pendulum to name a few.\r Here he talks about his art and his current work for the album "vaccine" by Younger Brother.
  21. - Scarfe's animation on the wall. Gerald Scarfe's animation projected across the wall, O2 Arena, 11 May 2011. Scarfe drew the characters and all the animation for the 1979 album and the 1982 film. He is alive and gives interviews. Roger Waters' own staging of The Wall, not the 1980 and 1981 Pink Floyd production.
  22. - Mono Lake, eastern Sierra. Hipgnosis worked by finding real places and real objects rather than photographing musicians. That approach is arguably the most influential single thing about Pink Floyd's design.
  23. - Storm Thorgerson; The deathbed interview. In 2010 I was hired to go to London, England for a week to interview and photograph Storm Thorgerson in his studio (studio bedroom to be exact). I have tried to live a creative life, and this encounter with an artist of his magnitude, gave me direction when I needed it most.
  24. - Storm Thorgerson - Interview On Pink Floyd Artwork. Storm Thorgerson co-founded Hipgnosis and designed the Dark Side of the Moon prism concept, the burning handshake, the Saunton Sands hospital beds and the Division Bell heads. He died on 18 April 2013.
  25. - Tufa towers at Mono Lake, California. Mono Lake in eastern California, whose calcium carbonate spires appear in Hipgnosis photography for Wish You Were Here in 1975. The band themselves were absent from that sleeve entirely, as from almost every sleeve after 1968.
  26. - Tufa columns at the water line. Storm Thorgerson found many of his images by travelling to look for real places. The result is that a Pink Floyd sleeve usually documents something that physically existed rather than assembling a picture.
  27. - The South Tufa trail. It is true and unusual that Pink Floyd's sleeves from the 1970s onward almost never show the band. Hipgnosis built a visual identity out of objects and places instead of faces.
  28. - The Teacher above the stage. Gerald Scarfe's Teacher puppet raised over the stage, July 2013. The Teacher, the Judge, the Mother and the Wife are Scarfe's designs. Roger Waters' own staging of The Wall, not the 1980 and 1981 Pink Floyd production.
  29. - Scarfe's figure in silhouette. One of Gerald Scarfe's figures projected on the wall, July 2013. Roger Waters' own staging of The Wall, not the 1980 and 1981 Pink Floyd production.
  30. - Aubrey Powell. Aubrey "Po" Powell speaking about his work at St Paul's Gallery in Birmingham, 22 February 2014. He founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in London in 1968; the studio designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell is alive and now oversees the band's visual output.
  31. - Gerald Scarfe 'Campaign For Drawing'. Gerald Scarfe drew the animation, the inflatables and the sleeve for The Wall. The plain white brick cover is his, not Hipgnosis's, a break in the band's design history.
  32. - South Tufa at Mono Lake. The lake sits at the edge of the Great Basin and has no outlet, which is why the water is alkaline and the towers form. It was a favoured Hipgnosis location in the mid 1970s.
  33. - South Tufa in September light. The towers form where freshwater springs meet alkaline lake water. Hipgnosis returned to Mono Lake repeatedly through the mid 1970s.
  34. - Aubrey Powell aboard a boat. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968 and is now creative director of Pink Floyd's visual output. He is alive and gives interviews about the design work.
  35. - A wall of working photographs at the V&A. Contact-print material from the Hipgnosis studio. The firm worked by finding real places and real objects rather than photographing musicians, which is why the band appear on almost none of their own sleeves after 1968.
  36. - A UFO Club handbill, 1967. A poster for the UFO Club on Tottenham Court Road, where Pink Floyd became the house band in 1967. Joe Boyd ran the room; the psychedelic poster style of the period is by other hands entirely, not Hipgnosis.
  37. - A desk of early Pink Floyd material. Papers, photographs and hardware from the band's first years, laid out at the V&A. The name came off a single sleeve note, Paul Oliver's notes to a Blind Boy Fuller LP on Philips in 1962, listing Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
  38. - A telephone box in the exhibition. A period London telephone box built into the V&A staging. Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains ran from May to October 2017 and was designed as a walk-through rather than a gallery hang.
  39. - The pig above a model of Battersea. A scale reconstruction of the inflatable pig over Battersea Power Station. The pig broke its mooring on 3 December 1976 and the marksman hired to shoot it down was not rebooked for the second day. The sleeve itself is a composite: the pig was superimposed onto an earlier day's photograph.
  40. - Early instruments and papers. Material from the band's formation, including a guitar and handwritten notes. Waters, Mason and Wright met studying architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic.
  41. - Visitors in the exhibition gallery. Their Mortal Remains drew large crowds across its five-month run. It was the V&A's second rock exhibition after David Bowie Is.
  42. - The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains (Interview Trailer). Their Mortal Remains, the Pink Floyd exhibition that opened at the V&A in London in 2017 and then toured.
  43. - Pink Floyd - Their Mortal Remains (Trailer). Their Mortal Remains, the Pink Floyd exhibition that opened at the V&A in London in 2017 and then toured.
  44. - Pink Floyd - The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains Premiere (Trailer). Their Mortal Remains, the Pink Floyd exhibition that opened at the V&A in London in 2017 and then toured.
  45. - Their Mortal Remains at the V&A. The entrance to Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which ran from May to October 2017 and drew the museum's second-largest attendance for an exhibition. It assembled the instruments, stage props and design material the band had kept.
  46. - Stage clothing, 1960s. Stage shirts from the band's 1960s wardrobe. In the London underground period the group looked the part of a psychedelic pop act; within five years they had dropped the costume entirely and stood in the dark behind a circular screen. Photographed at Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 13 October 2017.
  47. - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" Illustrator Gerald Scarfe Interviewed. Illustrator/political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe spoke yesterday (6/16/17) with AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer after Scarfe's hour-long talk at London's Victoria and Albert Museum where since May 13th (and running through October 1st) "The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains" has been attracting large, enthus...
  48. - Pink Floyd - Aubrey Powell Interview. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. Hipgnosis designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell now oversees the band's visual output.
  49. - The tide line at Saunton Sands. Saunton runs for about three miles, which is why Thorgerson chose it: the beds had to recede into the distance. The crew set them out by hand over several days.
  50. - Saunton Sands at dusk. Hipgnosis built a visual identity out of objects and places rather than faces. Pink Floyd sleeves from the 1970s onward almost never show the band, which is unusual and arguably the most influential thing about their design.
  51. - HIPGNOSIS : "Daring to Dream" 50 Years of Photo Design - Aubrey Powell, Creative Director Pink Floyd. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. Hipgnosis designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell now oversees the band's visual output.
  52. - Interview with Pink Floyd Designer Aubrey Powell. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. Hipgnosis designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell now oversees the band's visual output.
  53. - #TheWorkofArt feat. Aubrey Powell. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. Hipgnosis designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell now oversees the band's visual output.
  54. - Hipgnosis Plattencover - Interview mit Aubrey Powell und Peter Urban | Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. Hipgnosis designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell now oversees the band's visual output.
  55. - The Lost Art of Conversation: A Pink Floyd Podcast (Episode 3: Artwork). The band's own podcast on artwork, made around The Later Years box set. Hipgnosis designed most of the sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward.
  56. - Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe on Pink Floyd, Politics and Pterodactyls. Gerald Scarfe drew the animation, the inflatables and the sleeve for The Wall. The plain white brick cover is his, not Hipgnosis's, a break in the band's design history.
  57. - Review: Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell interviewed re: record cover design. Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis, who designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell is still working and now oversees the band's visual output.
  58. - David Gilmour & Storm Thorgerson Interview re: A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Album Cover Photo Shoot. Storm Thorgerson arranged roughly seven hundred hospital beds on Saunton Sands in Devon for the A Momentary Lapse of Reason sleeve. It was photographed for real rather than composited, which is the point of it.
  59. - Aubrey Powell - Hipgnosis. Aubrey Powell co-founded Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. Hipgnosis designed most Pink Floyd sleeves from A Saucerful of Secrets onward. Powell now oversees the band's visual output.
  60. - Pink Floyd - Animals 2018 Remix Documentary (Album Cover Shoot). The Animals sleeve shoot at Battersea Power Station in December 1976. The pig broke loose and the marksman was not rebooked for the second day. The finished sleeve is a composite, the pig superimposed onto an earlier day's photograph.
  61. - SQUARING THE CIRCLE (the story of Hipgnosis). From Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), directed by Anton Corbijn, 2022. Aubrey Powell takes part; Storm Thorgerson had died in 2013.
  62. - Storm Thorgerson - Interview for Pink Floyd Album Covers. Storm Thorgerson co-founded Hipgnosis and designed the Dark Side of the Moon prism concept, the burning handshake, the Saunton Sands hospital beds and the Division Bell heads. He died on 18 April 2013.
  63. - [힙노시스: 롱 플레잉 스토리] 아티스트 토크 - Aubrey Powell. ‘힙노시스: 롱 플레잉 스토리’는 수십 년간 음악과 디자인 역사의 중심을 지킨 디자인 스튜디오 ‘힙노시스’의 작품과 이야기를 소개하는 전시입니다. 한계가 없었던 청년들의 디자인 스튜디오 설립부터 수많은 아티스트들과의 우정과 에피소드들까지. 그라운드시소 서촌에 찾아온 힙노시스의 창립자 오브리 파월을 지금 만나보세요! 'HIPGNOSIS: LONG PLAYING STORY' is an exhibition showcasing the artworks and stories of the design studio 'Hipgnosis', which has been a central...
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