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the time has been making new again. really daring why we pilots are willing to take huge risks. simply guinness's how can i brought my pizza back to fish soup in italy. anyone who enjoys listening to rock music knows the classic album covers the permit the cow or the power plant and the lawn based design studio hypnosis created these and the record cover us for bands such as can floyd led zep and then they see d.c. in the seventy's and they were considered sensational at the time now get away in berlin has put together a few highlights for an exhibition that kicks off this weekend. one of the most famous album covers of all time pink floyd's the dark side of the

moon the result of a night of brainstorming. i was looking through a physics book. and inside the physics book was a picture of a glass paperweight with light coming through a window and it created a rainbow effects and stormont to me i've got it he said a triangle like this with a source light on the rainbow coming from it this sums up pink floyd. obree powell was one of the founding members of the london design studio hypnosis between one nine hundred sixty eight and one nine hundred eighty three he and his now deceased partner school in poor created some of the most iconic album covers in music history now some fifty years later an exhibition in bellini's browse gallery looks at the studio's legacy it all began in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight it was revolution you know everything was changing the world of young people was changing storm focus a lot of shared a flat with sid barrett who was the originator of the floor in london and.

when the pink floyd came to do their second album source of full of secrets we happened to be around and suddenly one of the ballad it was david gilmore who had joined pay for it said all we have to find somebody to do the new album cover storm it was never backwards and forwards but obvious and said we'll do it also full of secrets was the start so we're career in which hypnosis developed a completely new style for album covers they presented epic landscapes provocative text and abstract collages inspired by surrealism records lease became art. this is an all of this is directly influenced by the show. in a way that it has nothing to do with music it has nothing to do with the lyrics it has nothing to do with the title. other things like this you see on the actual album cover there is no title. and this was really lateral thinking in the states

and the record companies would but it worked because it stood out. artists were commissioning hypnosis to design their album companies like peter gabriel and black sabbath powell and designed over three hundred album covers in them under the studio. we were. going to do a picture of a rock n roll. bands like floyd they have created that and said we don't want a picture of us on the front cover we want something interesting we want something different. they didn't think about a commercial aspect they had no interest in that at all they wanted something that was important creatively some creations proved unintentionally provocative like this. album love drawing. and the one nine hundred seventy three figures on led zeppelin's house of the holy proved too much for something when it was hugely

successful nomination program e and all that sort of stuff but the middle america. christian fundamentalists they said oh you have to put a stripe across children's bottoms so we put a japanese piece of white paper to cover it up with a name that. is it a photo montage or a real picture of the graphic designers love to play with perceptions and bands paint them. one of their most spectacular productions was the man on fire the pink floyd's wish you would hear about today businessman shaking hands someone being bugged in the deal and i remember saying to storm this is a great idea. so i flew to l.a. i went to the studio. for real the difference between hypnosis in the one nine hundred seventy s.

and now is you have photoshop. you do that all that in photoshop but hypnosis always shot everything for real.