In Through the Out Door: Hipgnosis and the 1970s album cover.

The Cambridge art school students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell began their London design studio Hipgnosis after being asked to do an album cover for their friends Syd Barrett and Rogers Waters and their fledging band. Their cover for Pink Floyd’s 1968 A Saucerful of Secrets attracted the attention of Ron Dunton who was in charge of graphics for EMI and they soon began designing covers for other EMI artists.
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