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RIP Storm Thorgerson

EastTerrace
EastTerrace Posts: 3,968
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Pink Floyd sleeve designer, it was a pleasure to work with you. Legend and always remembered fondly by many.

RIP

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  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,053
    I can't pretend to be over familiar with him, but all that is great and good, that is a truly awesome name. RIP.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,287
    edited April 2013
    Fantastically talented designer, so creative. He will be sorely missed.

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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,394
    Knew I recognized that name from somewhere. Always produced incredible and intriguing album artwork. The sort that I would always find myself looking at again and again whenever I pull out a Pink Floyd or Muse record. Spot something new everytime....

    RIP
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Truly talented RIP Storm.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,794
    Did he have a thing for Toblerone chocolate?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,443
    RIP, after a long battle with illness, rest in peace sir.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    A true master from a bygone pre digital age where album art was revered. R.I.P
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,528
    Once worked for a company that owned the rights to the coffe table books of great album art covers he'd done - truly amazing stuff!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    shine on you crazy diamond

    RIP

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  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    RIP
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,968
    Still shocked and sad after the news.

    I joined the repro/print company I work for back in 1987, until about ten years ago our main client was EMI Records, one of their biggest artists, Pink Floyd.

    When Floyd jobs came in, Storm would too. As technology changed we would scan his transparencies at first onto film (as I did for the first few VOTVs), then into an electronic pagemakeup system and eventually into Apple Mac. He was fussy, a perfectionist and a right pain but a fantastic character and you were happy to do the work because it was Storm.

    He was sharp and witty and kind, he bought me in some skin emollient once for some mild eczema (maybe to protect his artwork though!).

    The last time I saw him was at one of his exhibitions near Brick Lane a couple of years back. We had a chat and took his photo with my son.

    A while later I was at a wedding in Holland and was talking to a women who was writing a thesis on rehabilitation from brain tumours. She wanted to use a Storm photo for the cover (tree if half life I believe it's called) and was shocked when I said I knew him. She emailed Storm reciting the story and he let her use it for free.

    I think it's ironic that he died so close to record store day.

    RIP old friend
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,383
    RIP

    A different era, when album sleeves were incredible works of art, and if you wanted an iconic image of a pig floating over Battersea power station, you couldn't photoshop it in!
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,263
    Although I have never heard of him I found your story interesting East Terrace. Thanks for sharing.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,450
    RIP and interesting obit EastTerrace,

    Very eye catching images even if they were never really my cup of tea.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,325
    RIP. Great talent.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,394
    image
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,473
    A talented man .. RIP
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,287
    Nice Story EastTerrace.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,968
    Cheers All, quite a number of ex-work colleagues phoned those of us still there on Friday to talk about his passing. He was very popular!

    Agreed Henry, like Storm's work (have a print up in my house) but don't go mad over it (although always found the concept pretty interesting) and the same with Pink Floyd (aside from Wish You Were Here).

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  • maybe_baby
    maybe_baby Posts: 2,609
    A matter of taste I suppose, but I don't like any of his work.
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP storm
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    Iconic artwork. RIP Storm.

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