About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Hipgnosis, The Designers Republic, Bau-da, Gamil Design, JRP-Ringier, Pentagram, Comicraft, FUEL Design, Mod7, Dynamic Diagrams, Greenfield Belser, Grapus, Warren Group - Studio Deluxe, Chermayeff & Geismar, Brash Brands, VSA Partners, Phunk Studio, SmashLAB, Davidson & Belluso, Medium, Jannuzzi Smith, The Firecracker Press, NewDealDesign, AdamsMorioka, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Corey McPherson Nash, Manhattan Design, Airside, 75B, Fons Hickmann, Redscout, Jackrabbit Design, The Red Collection, Michael Hertz Associates, Ray and Keshavan, Cases i associats, Continuity Associates, 23 Envelope, Mars Design, Jan Koemmet, Push Pin Studios, Big Active, Leskomedia, MK12, 8vo, Nice Shoes, Unimark International, Invisible Creature, Non-Format, Graphic Thought Facility, Kvorning Design & Communication, TRIO Sarajevo, Number Seventeen, Dynamic Images, Experimental Jetset, Karlssonwilker, Spina Studios, Tomato, Castle Bryant Johnsen, Norm, Stylorouge, Research Studios, Wherefore Art?. Excerpt: Hipgnosis was a British art design group that specialized in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands, most notably Pink Floyd, The Pretty Things, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, Yes, The Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, ELO and XTC. Hipgnosis consisted primarily of Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, and later, Peter Christopherson. The group dissolved in 1983, though Thorgerson still works on album designs, and Powell works in video, most notably with The Who. In 1968, Thorgerson and Powell were approached by their friends in Pink Floyd to design the cover for the group's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets. This led to additional work for EMI, including photos and album covers for The Pretty Things, Free, Toe Fat and The Gods. Being film and art school students, they were able to use...
