Storm Thorgerson

Storm Thorgerson documentary East Coast premiere

Posted January 28, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roddy Bogawa‘s documentary about Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson will have its East Coast premiere next month at New York Museum of the Modern Art (MoMA).

The feature-length film, “Taken by Storm,” will be featured as part of MoMA’s two-week-long “International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media,” beginning Feb. 16.

“Taken by Storm” debuted in March 2011 at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival.

“Hoping that this screening will give the film a big push along to its distribution life — more screenings, perhaps theatrical release, DVDs and streaming,” Bogawa says.

Posted in Events, Films, Merchandise, Personnel, Storm Thorgerson | 2 comments

Winner: The Raging Storm

Posted December 21, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to Peter Petersson of Great Meadows, NJ, who won an autographed copy of “The Raging Storm,” the new book from Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson.

Prize courtesy of StormStudios.

Buy it online.

Posted in Books, Contests, Merchandise, Personnel, Storm Thorgerson | 1 comment

Contest: Win ‘The Raging Storm’

Posted December 7, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Enter to win an autographed copy of Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson‘s new book “The Raging Storm.”

Deadline to enter is 6 p.m. EST Dec. 21.

Read more about the book (“New book coming from Storm Thorgerson”).

Enter to win now.

Posted in Contests, Personnel, Storm Thorgerson | 1 comment

New book coming from Storm Thorgerson

Posted November 13, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson has released “The Raging Storm,” a new coffee table book featuring output over the past four years from his most recent d/b/a, Storm Studios.

Thorgerson was a founding member of design team Hipgnosis, and had a hand in creating nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as the band’s solo members’, numerous reissues for the band, and iconic sleeves for groups such as Genesis, 10cc, Led Zeppelin and others.

“The Raging Storm” is available in two editions: a hardcover version for £34.99; and a deluxe limited edition that includes a giclee print of Biffy Clyro‘s “Only Revolutions” for £395.

Both are 160 pages and include art produced for Floyd, Biffy Clyro, Pendulum, Wombats, Shpongle, Disco Biscuits, Powderfinger, Muse, Steve Miller and others.

Thorgerson has also created monthly calendar wallpaper available for free download.

It’s all available at the online Raging Storm store.

You can read our 1997 interview with Thorgerson at the time of the release of his book “Taken by Storm” online.

Posted in Books, Merchandise, Personnel, Storm Thorgerson | 3 comments

Storm Thorgerson documentary premieres next month

Posted February 15, 2011 by Floydian Slip

“Taken by Storm,” a new feature-length documentary film about prolific Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson (pictured), will premiere at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival next month.

The film will be shown three or four times during the festival, which runs March 11-20 in Austin, Texas.

According to the film’s director, Roddy Bogawa, Thorgerson is expected to attend most of the festival.

Bogawa reports Pink Floyd and EMI have been very supportive in the making of the film. “They’ve given me permission to use a one-minute clip from a helicopter shot over the beach at Devon where Storm shot ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’,” he says. “No one has ever seen this footage, I think, and it’s really amazing.

“Storm and Pink Floyd have done so much together it’s a big chunk of the film,” he adds. “There are sequences about ‘Atom Heart Mother,’ ‘Wish You Were Here,’ of course, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason,’ with footage from my interviews with David Gilmour and Nick Mason.”

Learn more about SxSW at the festival Web site.

Posted in Films, Merchandise, Personnel, Storm Thorgerson | Comments Off on Storm Thorgerson documentary premieres next month

Photos: Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell at event

Posted August 18, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Storm Thorgerson (right) and Aubrey “Po” Powell (left), founders of prolific album cover design house Hipgnosis, were on hand for an event at the San Francisco Art Exchange last week.

Hipgnosis, and, later, Thorgerson’s other design teams, designed nearly every Pink Floyd album cover starting with 1968’s “A Saucerful of Secrets,” as well as covers for its members’ solo projects.

There’s an online collection of photos from the event, courtesy of Laura Brown.

Browse the gallery.

Posted in Aubrey Powell, Personnel, Storm Thorgerson | Comments Off on Photos: Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell at event

Floydian filmmaker seeks funding

Posted June 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip

A new feature-length documentary film about long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson is nearly complete, and the filmmaker is looking for funding.

New York filmmaker Roddy Bogawa is the man behind “Taken by Storm,” a 90-minute film looking at the prolific career of Thorgerson, who helped create nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as countless iconic covers from some of the world’s biggest bands.

Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason are two of many musicians who appear in the film, along with photographers, illustrators and assistants who’ve helped execute the work from the days of Thorgerson’s early studio Hipgnosis to his new company, StormStudios.

Thorgerson has granted Bogawa access to his personal archives so the film promises a bevy of never-before-seen workparts.

Bogawa has established a page at Kickstarter to raise money to complete his project. Pledge amounts as low as $25 can get you some swag in return. If you have larger amounts to spend, some of the rewards are quite impressive. (Ever fancied yourself an Associate Producer? With $3,500, consider it done.)

Visit “Taken by Storm” at Kickstarter or visit the film’s official site.

Posted in Films, Merchandise, Personnel, Storm Thorgerson | Comments Off on Floydian filmmaker seeks funding