Here, he and Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey “Po” Powell dish on some key album covers. “Even though vinyl sales have surged again, it’s like a period that’s gone.” “The importance of an album sleeve will never be the same as in the ’70s, and to make a documentary about the most prominent album covers of the era that are all done by one design team is really important for people who have missed that period,” said renowned rock photographer Anton Corbijn, who directed the film. The new documentary “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” - which opened at NYC’s Film Forum on Wednesday and rolls out nationwide later this month - goes inside the studio that created the visuals for some of the biggest acts of the 1970s. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters fires back at bandmate, says David Gilmour, wife, ‘have no ideas’īefore the age of the internet and social media, it was all about album covers.Īnd London-based art design studio Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic art, for classic rock acts such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band Wings. Roger Waters dresses as Nazi: ‘Desecrating the memory of Anne Frank’ Roger Waters defends Nazi-style costume after Berlin police launch investigation Brain activity used to reconstruct Pink Floyd song in scientific first
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