PictureBox will publish “For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis,” a coffee-table book featuring the work of the design team responsible for nearly all of Pink Floyd’s album covers.
The book will feature more than 60 package designs for bands such as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, Styx, and, of course, Pink Floyd.
Formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell in 1968, the group’s first cover for Floyd was “A Saucerful of Secrets” that same year.
Floyd drummer Nick Mason, along with other musicians, artists and designers, contribute essays to the book, which is written — or, as Thorgerson told Floydian Slip in a 1997 interview, “‘compiled,’ I think is a better word than ‘written’ — by Thorgerson and Powell.
The 224-page book comes out in hardcover Dec. 1, with a cover price of $45. Pre-order your copy for less than $30 online now.
