Hipgnosis is The Beatles of album cover art – nobody has ever done it better than the British design firm founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell. Their first cover was Pink Floyd’s 1968 album A Saucerful of Secrets and their last was Led Zeppelin’s Coda, released in 1982. There’s quite a bit of poetry in that. In their fifteen years together the firm produced many of the most iconic covers in music history. Below is a gallery of all 190 Hipgnosis covers (Note: I haven’t found an image of Hignosis’s 48th album cover, 1972′s self-titled Danta.)
For more information check out the book For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis.
So many burnt into my noggin images here! Well done!
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Hi there,
Here’s the Danta cover:
http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/danta.html
PS: There are some errors/missing covers in your list. Compare with my site to find out which ones…
The Brotherhood of the Record Geek comes through again. Thanks very much for the use of your Danta cover. You guys need to check out Stian’s site at http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com. It’s the real deal!
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Utterly fantastic work! I think however that Peter Saville pretty handily squeaks by them as the best, at least in my subjective opinion
There are actually quite a few who squeak by Storm and the boy, so you have to forgive the hyperbole