US AND THEM: THE AUTHORISED STORY OF HIPGNOSIS

The story behind the designs that launched a thousand covers.

SID SMITH

Mark Blake NINE EIGHT BOOKS Rifle through any reasonable-sized album collection the chances are you’ll find at least one cover created by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, and later in their story, Peter Christopherson. They were collectively known as Hipgnosis, and noted Floyd authority Mark Blake takes a largely chronological approach in telling the story of how a couple of posh boys seeking to emulate the risqué habits of Kerouac’s Beat Generation came to stamp their brand on the minds of the record-buying public and in doing so aid and abet the late 60s/early 70s proliferation of album covers as bona fide works of art. "There’s a wealth of insider candour elicited here." Hipgnosis were inspired by a hefty draught of drugs, photography, polemics, Letraset, literature, filmmaking, surrealism, and…

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