Storm Thorgerson - Anthrax 'Stomp 442' album cover print, signed limited edition silk screen print 121/125.
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Created for Anthrax's 1995 album, Stomp 442.
Storm Thorgerson;
"Stomp 442 by Anthrax was a seriously minimal record of unencumbered, heavy rock..no messing here. A very large ball of scrap metal that could roll around the urban landscape seemed equally forthright, especially if it was very big. The figure in the picture shows the size. The sculpture was built solely for this photograph and was made in sections then hung by a crane.
Printed on Somerset paper by Coriander Studios, London.
Storm Thorgerson (1944-2013) was an English graphic designer, known for his work for rock bands including Pink Floyd, 10cc, Muse, Genesis and Peter Gabriel. He was a key member of the British graphic art group Hipgnosis with Aubrey 'Po' Powell, and designed many of their most famous single and album covers. Perhaps Storms most famous design is for The Dark Side of the Moon, which has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time.
Hipgnosis went on to create hundreds of classic album covers over the next fifteen years for some of the best known rock bands of the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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The Dark Side of the Moon (Harvest/Capitol, 1973) - Pink Floyd
Se cumplen 49 años del lanzamiento en Reino Unido de #TheDarkSideoftheMoon, uno de los álbums más importantes de la discografía de #PinkFloyd. #RichardWright le pidió a los diseñadores de #Hipgnosis una portada “limpia, elegante y gráfica”. #GeorgeHardie, entonces empleado de la compañía, diseñó el prisma refractando luz, a partir del concepto de los miembros fundadores #StormThorgerson y #AubreyPowell.
El lado oscuro de la luna alude a lo que desconocemos, a lo que no podemos ver. Y la portada nos presenta sobre un fondo negro, lo que nuestros ojos no son capaces de ver sin el uso de un refractante, toda la gama de colores que oculta la luz blanca. Una metáfora sobre la psicodelia de los temas de Pink Floyd, su capacidad para convertir las canciones en experiencias sensoriales.
Sin duda, se ha convertido en una de las portadas más icónicas y reconocibles de la industria musical.
Can't wait to get inspired by these legends.
"The complete, definitive, and never-before-published catalogue of album covers created by the legendary design agency Hipgnosis. Founded in 1967 by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, and Peter Christopherson, Hipgnosis gained a legendary status in graphic design, transforming the look of album art forever and winning five Grammy nominations for package design. Their revolutionary cover art departed from the conventional group shots favored by record companies of the day, resulting in groundbreaking, often surreal designs inextricable from the major albums of many of the biggest names in the history of popular music: AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Police, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett, The Who, Wings, Yes, and XTC, to name but a few."
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