History Main / DesignStudentsOrgasm

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} and Storm Thorgerson were among the most famous AlbumCoverDesigners and are best known for their covers for Music/PinkFloyd. They made the psychedelic universe cover of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'', the DrosteImage on ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'', the rainbow prisma of ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', the businessmen shaking hands with a ManOnFire on ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', the countless beds on the beach on ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'' and the ambiguous faces on the cover of ''Music/TheDivisionBell''.

* ''Literature/DasZeitfahrrad'': Curves and maybe circles are a recurring theme of the cover art, but why? Perhaps because "DasZeitfahrrad" translates to "the time bike", but you could be forgiven for not realizing that the odd machine on the cover was supposed to be a sort of bicycle. It certainly doesn’t seem to have any wheels.

* Expect these to show up in [[Main/TekkoukiMikazuki just]] [[Series/{{Garo}} about]] [[Main/ShougekiGouraigan anything]] made by Keita Amemiya after the year 2000.

%%** [[VideoGame/{{Persona3}} Most]] [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} modern]] Persona games [[VideoGame/{{Persona}} and their remakes]] follow this with their openings. (''Especially Persona 1'' and ''Persona 3 Portable''.) The animators of the ''[[VideoGame/{{Persona2}} Innocent Sin]]'' Remake just took this trope UpToEleven right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D07mro7NOkA here]].

%%** Similar arguments were made by Magazine/{{MAD}} back in the 1960's about the idiocy of TV commercials for color TV sets.

%%* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'' does this in the most stunning way possible. ''Definitely'' overlaps with SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome.

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* The "past" poster of ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'' was the previous page image. It's rather baroque, incorporating dozens upon dozens of inerwoven, intricate details, each of them somehow referencing witchcraft as depicted in the film.

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eLg6ZxFDm4 The opening credits]] of ''Film/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' (1996).

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%%* Features prominently in the opening credits of ''EdenOfTheEast''. Whoever designed it likes pink. And flowers. A whole lot.

%%* The opening credits of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' had a love affair with this trope, with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg5lI6NCBxE playing card theme]]. And it ''[[TropesAreNotBad rocked]]''.

* Music/FrankZappa's albums also often had detail grabbing covers or covers with a visually striking image: ''Music/FreakOut'', ''Music/HotRats'' (a photograph in psychedelic and bright colors), ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'' (Cal Schenkel's famous SgtPeppersShoutOut parody), ''Music/CruisinWithRubenAndTheJets'', ''Music/JustAnotherBandFromLA.'', ''Music/TheGrandWazoo'', ''Music/WakaJawaka'', ''Ahead Of Their Time'' (Cal Schenkel's naïve cartoonish drawing style), ''Music/UncleMeat'' and ''Music/BurntWeenySandwich'', ''Tinseltown Rebellion'' (collage covers), ''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh'' (Neon Park's design of man shaving himself with a weasel), ''Music/TwoHundredMotels'', ''Music/OverNiteSensation'', ''Music/OneSizeFitsAll'' (covers full with details), ''Music/StudioTan'', ''Music/SleepDirt'', ''Music/OrchestralFavorites'' (Gary Panter's designs).

* The Designers Republic is known for incorporating ironic anti- and pro-corporate aesthetics into its art style, along with minimalist logos, symbols, and hidden text, a style that became widely copied during the 1990s and 2000s. The studio has done work for artists like Music/PopWillEatItself, Music/AphexTwin, and Music/{{Autechre}} on multiple occasions.

%%* Both versions of Mika's "Relax (Take It Easy)" feature this style, as does the cover art of his CD.
%%** Pretty much everything Mika does visually falls under this trope.

%%* Creator/{{MTV}} Brasil's bumps. Usually also have DerangedAnimation.

* The psychedelic "Feed the Senses" Friskies cat food commercials. One full minute of a cat jumping through a dimensional portal into 3D Kitty Pepperland.

* The iconic shot of Music/PattiSmith striking a Creator/FrankSinatra -like pose, with her CoatOverTheShoulder on ''Music/{{Horses}}'', was shot by her friend, famed photographer Creator/RobertMapplethorpe. In fact, ''all'' her album cover photos were by him, until his death from AIDS. The last photos he took of her were in early 1987. He died two years later.

* The iconic shot of Music/PattiSmith striking a pose, with her CoatOverTheShoulder on ''Music/{{Horses}}'', was shot by famed photographer Creator/RobertMapplethorpe.

* Especially from the second half of the 1960s on, many album covers by rock bands and artists have become more artsy, especially by psychedelic and progressive rock bands. Art photographers, painters and designers were hired to provide beautifully crafted covers that had stunning visuals, lots of SceneryPorn and sometimes even extra details and secret messages for the fans.

%%* DaveJohnson, cover artist of ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'', is fond of this. That's part of the reason why he's in such high demand as a cover artist. He can even do this when drunk.
%%* DallasBarr is drawn by an interior designer. It really shows in scenes at the office of Lord Stileman, which among other things includes a stylised river.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler:'' Everything is extremely stylized to the point of being super weird. Lots of AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, UnmovingPlaid and DerangedAnimation.
** What makes this more amazing was that this was done ''without'' CGI.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', the other world starts to look like this - geometrical, sometimes fractal trees rendered in black and white - the further you go away from the house. [[spoiler:The house itself turns into Design Student's Orgasm once the Other World starts to fall apart.]]

%%* The opening credits to ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.

%%* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin'''s opening credits, which are also animated in a different style than the actual film.

%%* Much of Creator/YoshitakaAmano's concept art for ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.

%%* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'' does this in the most stunning way possible. ''Definitely'' overlaps with VisualEffectsOfAwesome.

* The Designers Republic is known for incorporating ironic anti- and pro-corporate aesthetics into its art style, along with minimalist logos, symbols, and hidden text, a style that became widely copied during the 1990s and 2000s. The studio has done work for artists like Music/PopWillEatItself, Music/AphexTwin, and Music/Autechre on multiple occasions.

* Especially from the second half of the 1960s on many album covers by rock bands and artists have become more artsy, especially by psychedelic rock and progressive rock bands. Art photographers, painters and designers were hired to provide beautifully crafted covers that had stunning visuals, lots of SceneryPorn and sometimes even extra details and secret messages for the fans.

* Music/KingCrimson's first album covers. Particularly noteworthy is their third album, ''Lizard'', whose cover was designed by Gini Barris. The name of the band is written in elaborate medieval lettering and each letter incorporates depictions of scenes described in each song. The band has since stuck with simpler or outright minimalist album covers since.
* The album cover of ''Music/DiamondDogs'' by Music/DavidBowie was designed by famous Belgian pop art painter Guy Peellaert and shows Bowie and two other people are man-dog hybrids. Peellaert also did the cover of ''Music/ItsOnlyRockNRoll'' by Music/TheRollingStones.

* Especially from the second half of the 1960s on many album covers by rock bands and artists have become more artsy, especially by psychedelic rock bands. Art photographers, painters and designers were hired to provide beautifully crafted covers that had stunning visuals, lots of SceneryPorn and sometimes even extra details and secret messages for the fans.

* As the page image shows, the "past" poster of ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'' qualifies when one looks at the throne. It's rather baroque, incorporating dozens upon dozens of inerwoven, intricate details, each of them somehow referencing witchcraft as depicted in the film.