RIP Storm Thorgerson

[Sean]

What were your faves from him?

[Jerjo]

I cannot even fathom where to start. So many crucial faves from him. R.I.P. for a fantastic artist.

[Wisdomview]

RIP..........

Animals

[Spiral]

What a shame. I hadn't heard.

Obviously those Floyd images are classic, and didn't he do a couple of Peter Gabriel's, like the Melt cover? At the moment though, the other favorite that comes to my mind is for The Last Days of Gravity (Younger Brother).

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The inner booklet follows suit, showing images of odd objects (like an apple and a VW bus), as well as the band members, cut into ribbon-like strips. Weird but somehow I love it.

The guy knew how to catch the eye, that's for sure. RIP.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Too sad.

Quatermass - 'Quatermass'

[ItalProgRules]

So many losses lately.

I'm going to go with a classic, Wish You Were Here.

RIP, Storm!

[Big Ears]

I'm shocked because I knew nothing about this. I've just looked on the BBC News site and they say he was only 70, but had died peacefully. He had been ill with cancer for some time and had also suffered a stroke. Dave Gilmour said Storm was a close friend and his art was an inseparable part of Floyd's work.

In my opinion, the cover of DSOTM is a work of genius in its simple effectiveness.

Here's a link which has an interesting comment about how the famous prism was developed for the cover:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22210378

[Dedatolo]

http://davidgilmour.com/

[Steve F.]

Sorry to read this. A totally distinct and recognizable artistic style, except when other artists were copying him <smile>

RIP, Storm.

[Man In The Mountain]

Wow. He was the best, ever, period.

[spellbound]

Rest in peace, Storm.

[Banquo]

RIP, obviously. But to answer the OP's question, I'll be brutally honest in that while I appreciate most of his stuff, especially the earlier PF, I found many of his later creations (Dream Theater, Cranberries, Audioslave) to be less original and mostly a parody of his early works. A pig in the sky in 1977 was mindblowing. A big eyeball in the sky in 1999 was just silly.

[JKL2000]

Holy crow!! So sad, I love his work (most of it), and have a couple of books of it.

Very hard to choose a favorite - too hard. I'd almost say I was more a fan of his design and illustration work than the photography. Al Stewart's Year of the Cat was a good one.

[VickiLynn]

In my opinion, the cover of DSOTM is a work of genius in its simple effectiveness.

Here's a link which has an interesting comment about how the famous prism was developed for the cover:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22210378

That image is iconic -- highly recognizable all around this globe.

[Joe F.]

RIP Storm.

Some of my favorite covers: Animals, Presence, WYWH, Phenomenon

[iguana]

just heard it and i am devastated. without his work i wouldn’t have entered training as a graphic designer myself. he will always be an enduring inspiration and example for excellence in abstraction, composition and sheer simplicity. r.i.p.

[Mt. Pleasant Farm]

Anyone that can think of flying a pig over Battersea Station is nothing less than a genious. Rest in peace my friend.

[Progbear]

The man was one of my favourite photographic artists and had a distinct, unmistakable visual style. Let’s remember the man from his art:















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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

"Parece cosa de maligno. Los pianos no estallan por casualidad." --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

N.P.:“Experience”-Von Hertzen Brothers

[Paulrus]

just heard it and i am devastated. without his work i wouldn’t have entered training as a graphic designer myself. he will always be an enduring inspiration and example for excellence in abstraction, composition and sheer simplicity. r.i.p.

Another designer here. Even before I knew that was going to be my profession I could tell Storm's work was a notch above the rest -- like Roger Dean, but more in classic graphic design image-composition-typography terms, rather than as an illustrator. And like Roger Dean he had an easily recognizable style. You could always pick his stuff out amongst all the other album covers as you rifled your way through the bins. If you look at The Nice's Elegy cover, that was the sort of thing people were still doing in the 80s, and that was 1971.

I think one of his last covers had to be The Pineapple Thief's 2010 album Someone Here Is Missing, right? And of course he's responsible for Yes' first post-Dean covers. Another fave I'll add to the list is the sleeve for Alan Parsons Project's I Robot.

RIP

[Rickenbacker]

Big loss for "classic" /album rock.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22210378

[Rickenbacker]

Ok. ok. Just noticed the thread on the main board.

[Superfly]

Oh, the hours spent staring at those wonderful covers. I'm not sure I have a favorite, but Wish You Were Here is certainly A favorite. To have left behind such an amazing body of work to be remembered by is testament to how deep his gift ran. Bravo and farewell.

[Eli Friedman]

I believe he did Hawkwind's Quark Strangeness and Quark sleeve, if I remember right. It certainly looks his style.

[bmooncd]

AUGH



Sigh... The world I knew escapes me, piece by piece...

[notallwhowander]

Wow, the era is undeniably coming to and end. R.I.P.

Thanks for twisting my young and impressionable mind Storm.

Wish You Were Here has to be my favorite. I really like Tales of Mystery and Imagination as well. The mummy wrapped in 2-inch audio tape is a classic.