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Aubrey "Po" Powell (born 23 September 1946) is a British graphic designer.He co-founded the album cover design company Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1967. The company ran for 15 years until 1982, and created some of the most acclaimed record cover art of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for many of the most famous rock bands of the era including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Yes, Genesis, 10cc, Wishbone Ash, Peter Gabriel, UFO, Bad Company, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Scorpions, Styx ...
HIPGNOSIS. In 1967 Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and Storm Thorgerson were approached by their friends in Pink Floyd to design the cover for the group’s second album, A Saucerful of Secrets. This led to a flurry work from other bands including Free, The Pretty Things, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Aynsley Dunbar. The name Hipgnosis was born out of a chance ...
Aubrey Powell was born on 23 September 1946 in Sussex. His parents lived abroad for most of his formative years and he attended The Kings School, Ely, Cambridgeshire. On leaving school, he met Storm Thorgerson and members of the then fledgling Pink Floyd in Cambridge and struck up a friendship and working relationship that was to last to the present day.
Oct 26, 2014 · In fifteen years, Hipgnosis (Aubrey 'Po' Powell, Storm Thorgerson and Peter Christopherson) established themselves as one of the most important design collectives in music history. Their ...
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Jun 1, 2023 · In early 1980, Aubrey Powell, the then-33-year-old co-founder of the pioneering British design company Hipgnosis, flew to Hawaii to photograph the cover for the British rock band 10cc’s “Look ...
Nov 30, 2021 · An updated version of Pink Floyd’s "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" marked an opportunity for Aubrey “Po” Powell, the band’s longtime visual collaborator, to revisit his cover art for that record. Moreover, it presented an occasion to take a look back at the groundbreaking and influential work he did as part of Hipgnosis, the leading album design group of the rock era.
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Jan 23, 2015 · In the 1970s, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell was one of the creative minds behind the design agency Hipgnosis. Powell, along with his partner, the late Storm Thorgerson, stripped away the album title and even the band name, and stuck a picture of a cow on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother and a prism on the sleeve of The Dark Side Of The Moon instead.
