History Creator / Hipgnosis

* {{Surrealism}}

-->--Excerpt from the cover of Music/{{XTC}}'s ''Go 2''

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The innersleeve of Music/PeterGabriel's [[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/images/228_petergabriel1_lp_us_inner2.jpg first album]].

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The innersleeve of Music/PeterGabriel's [[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/petergabriel/petergabriel1.html first album]].

* MesACrowd: The inner gatefold of Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/emersonlakepalmer.html Trilogy]]'' has multiple Emersons, Lakes and Palmers posing in a forest.

* ManOnFire: Music/PinkFloyd's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/pinkfloyd/wishyouwerehere.html Wish You Were Here]]''.

** Climax Blues Band's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/climaxbluesband/tightlyknit.html Tightly Knit]]'' is based on the phrase "Put a sock in it".

* VisualPun:

* ManOnFire: Music/PinkFloyd's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/pinkfloyd/wishyouwerehere.html Wish You Were Here]]''.

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Music/{{Styx}}'s ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/styx/piecesofeight.html Pieces of Eight]]''.

!!Hipgnosis clients with TVTropes pages:

* EenieMeenieMiniMoai: Music/{{Styx}}'s ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/styx/piecesofeight.html Pieces of Eight]]''.

* Music/{{Yes}}

* Mick Taylor of Music/TheRollingStones

After Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson formed Storm Studios and continued doing album covers (and eventually CD booklets); although he mostly desis with younger bands like Music/CatherineWheel and Music/TheCranberries, he

In TheSixties, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell were two students at the University of Cambridge, where they knew future Music/PinkFloyd members Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour. Thorgerson and Powell had already designed and photographed several paperback covers for Penguin Books, so when the Floyd needed a cover for their second album ''A Saucerful of Secrets'', they turned to their friends, who renamed their collaboration "Hipgnosis" after the word was scrawled on the door of their flat by a then-unknown "ingenious dope fiend".[[hottip:*:The scrawler turned out to be Adrian Haggard, another friend of Thorgerson and Powell.]] This was the beginning of a creative partnership with Pink Floyd that still exists today.

''Saucerful'' turned out so well that Hipgnosis was offered more work by the Floyd's label and booking agent. Throughout TheSeventies, the studio's reputation grew as they were commissioned by some of the biggest names in British music (see the list below); along with artist Roger Dean, they helped create the look of ProgressiveRock and Music/HeavyMetal. Their work is notable for its use of {{surrealism}}; in those pre-Photoshop days, their enigmatic images had to be created in RealLife, or through montage and retouching, instead of clicking on a mouse. Hipgnosis is also remembered for the stories their vivid images told, often using ScienceFiction tropes. (Besides album covers, Hignosis designed covers for DouglasAdams' ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' books and albums [[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/douglasadams.html here]]] and Norman Spinrad's novel ''BugJackBarron'' [[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/normanspinrad.html here]]]). The studio became so busy that in 1974, they promoted their assistant Peter Christopherson to a full-time third member.

Where do these scenes come from? Old movies, or some forgotten GenreAnthology series? Actually, they're all from the work of a studio that designed album covers for some of England's best known bands. Welcome to the world of Hipgnosis.

''A Saucerful of Secrets'' turned out so well that Hipgnosis was offered more work by the Floyd's label and booking agent. Throughout TheSeventies, the studio's reputation grew as they were commissioned by some of the biggest names in British music (see the list below); along with artist Roger Dean, they helped create the look of ProgressiveRock. Their work is notable for its use of {{surrealism}}; their enigmatic images

In TheSixties, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell were two students at the University of Cambridge, as were future Music/PinkFloyd members Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour. Tho