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Hamburg People aufgepasst: Bei @slam_records_hamburg , dem feinen Plattenladen auf dem Schulterblatt 4 gibt es jetzt meine ikonischen Albumcover-Hommagen als signierte Fine Art Prints zu kaufen. Im SLAM Schaufenster seht ihr eine kleine Miniausstellung mit einigen gerahmten Exemplaren… #slamrecords #recordstore #hamburg #hamburgcity #vinyl #vinylcollector #vinylporn #music #musiclover #vinyladict #album #albumcover #coverart #coverartwork #minimalistic #hommage #iconicalbumcovers #fineart #fineartprint #print #wallart #framedart #exibition #dieterbraun #brauntown https://www.instagram.com/p/CQgbmDehn8l/?utm_medium=tumblr
Brief//Music Response
Whenever I think of iconic album covers, Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ immediately springs to mind and its one of favourites. The design was inspired by a photograph of a prism with a colour beam projected through it - so simple yet completely enticing, no wonder its been hailed as one of the greatest album covers of all time.
The Dark Side of the Moon design is a product of the visionary creative team of Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis, who are responsible for creating some of rock’s most memorable album covers.
Hipgnosis – a term mixing “hip” with “gnosis” (meaning “mystic thought”) – was coined by Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett for the design pairing when the band asked them to design the cover for their 1968 album, A Saucerful Of Secrets. In the following decade, the company became pre-eminent among the most forward-thinking album covers designers in the world.
Hipgnosis went on to produce nearly 200 covers, some of which were the most radical album sleeves in music history, including Black Sabbath’s escalator robots (for Technical Ecstasy) and Peter Gabriel’s melted grilled-cheese face (for his self-titled 1980 solo album)
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References
Chilton, M. (2019). Up Their Sleeves: The 13 Most Iconic Album Cover Designers | uDiscover. [online] uDiscover Music. Available at: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/iconic-album-cover-designers/.
Deal, D. (2017). “The Dark Side of the Moon”: How an Album Cover Became an Icon. [online] Medium. Available at: https://medium.com/@davidjdeal/pink-floyds-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-how-an-album-cover-became-an-icon-e95bae0bdc32.
Why It Matters. (2012). The Hipgnosis Album Cover Gallery. [online] Available at: https://wimwords.com/the-hipgnosis-album-cover-gallery/.
Late to the game, but here's my #iconicalbumcovers for the challenge put forth by @zetotof . Happy Saturday kiddies! - #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie #vinylcommunity #instavinyl #vinyligclub #vinylcollectionpost (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqAeMhKA7NI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t213s3w4u2w5
The Chinese dragon head with a red head, in dark green and white style
Japanese Dragon Tattoo #chinesedragonhead #KatsuhiroOtomo #iconicalbumcovers #energeticlines #heavymetalembroidery
Chinese dragon head in dark green and white
Japanese Dragon Tattoo #ChineseDragon #KatsuhiroOtomo #MetalEmbroidery #AlbumCovers #EnergeticLines #SpeedMotion #RedHead #DarkGreen #White #3840x2160