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The story behind the iconic design of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” (from this documentary about the album’s creation). The direction given by the client: “Simple, bold, and dramatic.”
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For those who don’t know, the cover was designed by Hipgnosis, who also did a lot of other great ‘70’s album covers like T Rex “Electric Warrior”, 10cc “How Dare You” and Peter Gabriel’s first self-titled album.
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8 comments so far
Crofoot 22 Dec 09
This is available on demand via Netflix.
Jamie, Baymard Institute 22 Dec 09
Now how’s that for brief?
Brilliant.
Marcello 22 Dec 09
For those who don’t know, the cover was designed by Hipgnosis, who also did a lot of other great ‘70’s album covers like T Rex “Electric Warrior”, 10cc “How Dare You” and Peter Gabriel’s first self-titled album.
Sioux falls cars 22 Dec 09
Really interesting look at a design which has stood the test of time.
Chris Hajer 23 Dec 09
Man, I get chills every time I listen to The Great Gig in the Sky. Have to go dig out the CD now… Thanks for posting this Matt, and Merry Christmas.
webb 23 Dec 09
Not so simple.
Brian 24 Dec 09
“the cover was designed by Hipgnosis” didn’t know, thank you Marcello.
Tom 26 Dec 09
Let us not forget that Rick Wright left us last year at the age of 65.
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