Hipgnosis var en britisk grafisk designer-gruppe som spesialiserte seg på kreative platecovere for kjente band som for eksempel Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, 10CC og The Alan Parsons Project. Hipgnosis besto hovedsakelig av Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell og senere Peter Christopherson. Hipgnosis avsluttet virksomheten i 1983, men Thorgerson arbeidet frem til han døde i 2013 med å lage platecovere i samme stilen.
Hipgnosis' stil var hovedsakelig abstrakte og absurde fotografier av ordinære personer og gjenstander i en ekstraordinær setting. Eksempler er blant annet Pink Floyds Meddle der et nærbilde skal forestille lydbølger som går inn i et øre, og Wish You Were Here, der to dresskledde personer håndhilser mens den ene av dem står i flammer.
Liste over platecovere av Hipgnosis
År Artist Album1968 Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets 1968 The Gods Genesis1969 Pink Floyd More1969 The Gods To Samuel a Son1969 Pink Floyd Ummagumma 1970 The Greatest Show on Earth Horizons1970 Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother1970 Quatermass Quatermass1970 The Pretty Things Parachute1970 The Greatest Show on Earth The Going's Easy1970 The Madcap Laughs1970 Five Bridges1970 Toe Fat Toe Fat1970 Cochise Cochise1970 Diverse artister, Harvest Records samlealbum || Picnic - A Breath of Fresh Air 1971 T.Rex Electric Warrior1971 Toe Fat Toe Fat 21971 Marvin, Welch & Farrar Marvin, Welch & Farrar1971 Elegy1971 Pink Floyd Meddle 1971 Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra1971 Audience House on the Hill 1971 Edgar Broughton Band Edgar Broughton Band1971 Wishbone Ash Pilgrimage1971 Climax Blues Band Tightly Knit1971 Tear Gas Tear Gas1971 Stackridge Stackridge 1972 Wishbone Ash Argus1972 Autumn '67 - Spring '681972 Renaissance Prologue1972 Edgar Broughton Band Inside Out1972 Audience Lunch 1972 The Pretty Things Freeway Madness1972 Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds1972 Blue Mink A Time of Change 1972 Roger Cook Meanwhile...Back at the World1973 Electric Light Orchestra ELO 2 1973 Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon1973 Roger Cook Minstrel in Flight1973 Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day1973 Edgar Broughton Band Oora1973 Past, Present and Future 1973 Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy1973 Audience You Can't Beat 'em1973 Lifemask1973 Renaissance Ashes Are Burning1973 Wishbone Ash Wishbone Four1973 Wishbone Ash Live Dates1973 Diverse artister Music from Free Creek 1973 Humble Pie Thunderbox1973 Emerson Lake and Palmer Trilogy 1974 Sharks Jab It in Yore Eye1974 Uno Uno 1974 Wishbone Ash There's the Rub1974 Renaissance Turn of the Cards 1974 Valentine1974 Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion1974 Bad Company Bad Company 1974 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway1974 Blue Mink Fruity1974 Syd Barrett1974 10cc Sheet Music 1974 Pink Floyd A Nice Pair 1974 The Pretty Things Silk Torpedo1974 UFO Phenomenon 1975 UFO Force It 1975 The Pretty Things Savage Eye1975 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 1975 Bad Company Straight Shooter1975 Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories1975 HQ1975 Edgar Broughton Band A Bunch of 45s1975 The Greatest Show on Earth The Greatest Show on Earth1975 10cc The Original Soundtrack 1975 The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow / Parachute, (ny-utgivelse)1975 Modern Times1975 Wings Venus and Mars1975 Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias1975 Caravan Cunning Stunts1975 Sassafras Wheelin 'n' Dealin 1975 Bob Sargeant First Starring Role1975 Strife Rush 1975 The Winkies The Winkies1976 AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap1976 Montrose Jump on It1976 Wings Wings at the Speed of Sound1976 Year of the Cat1976 Tales of Mystery and Imagination 1976 Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy1976 Genesis A Trick of the Tail1976 10cc How Dare You!1976 Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same1976 Led Zeppelin Presence1976 Brand X Unorthodox Behaviour1976 Wings Wings over America1976 UFO No Heavy Petting1976 Wishbone Ash New England1977 Wishbone Ash Front Page News1977 UFO Lights Out1977 Genesis Wind & Wuthering1977 I Robot1977 10cc Deceptive Bends1977 Bullinamingvase1977 Brand X Moroccan Roll1977 Sammy Hagar Sammy Hagar1977 The Early Years1977 Sammy Hagar Musical Chairs1977 Bad Company Burnin' Sky1977 Pink Floyd Animals1977 Electric Light Orchestra The Light Shines On 1977 Peter Gabriel (I) (også kjent som «Car»)1977 Yes Going for the One1977 Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm1977 Status Quo Live! 1977 Strawbs Deadlines1977 The Moody Blues Caught Live + 51978 Wet Dream1978 David Gilmour 1978 Styx Pieces of Eight1978 Back to the Bars1978 XTC Go 2 1978 Pezband Laughing in the Dark1978 Yes Tormato1978 Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...1978 Wishbone Ash No Smoke Without Fire1978 Peter Gabriel (II) (også kjent som «Scratch»)1978 Time Passages1978 Pyramid 1978 Black Sabbath Never Say Die! 1978 Renaissance A Song for All Seasons 1978 UFO Obsession1978 10cc Bloody Tourists1979 UFO Strangers in the Night1979 Scorpions Lovedrive1979 Eve 1979 Bad Company Desolation Angels1979 Edgar Broughton Band Parlez-Vous English (som The Broughtons)1979 10cc Greatest Hits 1972-19781979 Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door1979 Brand X Product1979 Gary Brooker No More Fear of Flying 1979 Steve Hillage Live Herald 1979 Godley & Creme Freeze Frame1979 UK Danger Money 1979 Mick Taylor1980 The Pretty Things Cross Talk 1980 Brand X Do They Hurt? 1980 10cc Look Hear?1980 Peter Gabriel (III) (også kjent som «Melt»)1980 Scorpions Animal Magnetism1980 UFO No Place to Run1980 Wishbone Ash Just Testing1981 UFO The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent1981 Pink Floyd A Collection of Great Dance Songs1981 Rainbow Difficult to Cure1981 Fictitious Sports 1981 Fun in Space1981 Def Leppard High 'n' Dry1981 Yumi Matsutoya Sakuban oai shimasho1982 Tug of War 1982 Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes1982 Eye in the Sky1982 Bad Company Rough Diamonds1982 Led Zeppelin Coda
Eksterne lenker Pink Floyds «Hvem er Hvem» En liste over Hipgnosis-verk Storm Thorgersons offisielle nettsted
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