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Hipgnosis was an English art design group based in London〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Helen Donlon interviews Hipgnosis )〕 that specialised in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands, most notably Pink Floyd, T. Rex, The Pretty Things, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, Yes, Def Leppard, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Electric Light Orchestra, The Police, Rainbow, Styx, XTC and Al Stewart. Hipgnosis consisted primarily of Cambridge natives Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and later Peter Christopherson.〔The photodesigns of Hipgnosis The Goodbye look. Vermillion Hutchinson Publishing Group. 1982 ISBN 0 091506417〕 The group dissolved in 1983, though Thorgerson worked on album designs until his death on 18 April 2013, and Powell works in video, most notably with The Who. ==History== 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 the darkroom at the Royal College of Art, but when they completed school, they had to set up their own facilities. They built a small darkroom in Powell's bathroom, but shortly thereafter, in early 1970, rented space and built a studio located at 6 Denmark Street. When first starting out, Powell and Thorgerson adopted their name from graffiti they found on the door to their apartment. Thorgerson said they liked the word, not only for punning on "hypnosis," but for possessing "a nice sense of contradiction, of an impossible co-existence, from Hip = new, cool, and groovy, and Gnostic, relating to ancient learning."〔Thorgerson, S: ''Hipgnosis • Walk Away René'', page 87. Paper Tiger, 1978.〕 Hipgnosis gained major international prominence in 1973 with their famed cover design for Pink Floyd's ''The Dark Side of the Moon''. The final design was one of several versions prepared for the band to choose from, but according to drummer Nick Mason, the 'prism/pyramid' design was the immediate and unanimous choice. The record itself was wildly successful—it became one of the biggest-selling and longest-charting albums of all time, putting it in the hands of millions of fans, and it has since been hailed as one of the best album covers of all time (VH1 rated the cover as No. 4, in 2003). After that, the firm became in-demand, and did many covers for high-profile bands and artists such as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, UFO, Black Sabbath, Peter Gabriel, The Alan Parsons Project, and Yes. They also designed the cover for the original UK paperback edition of Douglas Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', as well as the original UK hardcover edition of Norman Spinrad's ''Bug Jack Barron''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bug Jack Barron - book 1970 )〕 Peter Christopherson joined Hipgnosis as an assistant in 1974, and later became a full partner. The firm employed many assistants and other staff members over the years. Of particular note were freelance artists Richard Evans, George Hardie. and () Richard Manning.〔(discogs ), list of albums artists retouched〕 One notable fact was that Hipgnosis did not have a set fee for designing an album cover but instead asked the artists to "pay what they thought it was worth",〔 (The italics are present in the original.)〕 a policy that only occasionally backfired according to Thorgerson in his book on album cover design. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hipgnosis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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