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Sep 6, 2021 · Pink Floyd Designer Aubrey Powell on ‘Dark Side,’ ‘Wish You Were Here’ and Classic Album Covers in New Exhibition. “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains” has just opened at ...
Dec 12, 2019 · The man mainly responsible for the stunning look and overall design sense of essentially the entire Pink Floyd universe is Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative director of Hipgnosis. Powell started Hipgnosis with his late creative partner Storm Thorgerson in 1967 (Thorgerson passed away in 2013). Powell, Thorgerson, and Hipgnosis as a ...
HIPGNOSIS. In 1967 Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and Storm Thorgerson 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 a flurry work from other bands including Free, The Pretty Things, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Aynsley Dunbar. The name Hipgnosis was born out of a chance ...
Jun 1, 2023 · In early 1980, Aubrey Powell, the then-33-year-old co-founder of the pioneering British design company Hipgnosis, flew to Hawaii to photograph the cover for the British rock band 10cc’s “Look ...
Sep 6, 2021 · Pink Floyd Designer Aubrey Powell on ‘Dark Side,’ ‘Wish You Were Here’ and Classic Album Covers in New Exhibition Chris Willman September 6, 2021 at 12:51 PM · 17 min read
Aubrey Powell is a British graphic designer. He co-founded the album cover design company Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1967. The company ran for 15 years until 1982, and created some of the most acclaimed record cover art of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for many of the most famous rock bands of the era including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Yes, Genesis, 10cc, Wishbone Ash ...
