Comments on: William Rimmer’s Evening Swan Song

By: John

John — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:52:11 +0000

Hi Ron. The original of Evening: Fall of Day is owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I'd suggest contacting them to see if they have prints available. http://www.mfashop.com/contact-us.html

By: Ron Mikelson

Ron Mikelson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:36:21 +0000

Where can I purchase a copy of the orignal ?

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:37:54 +0000

I have that very book, Hipgnosis – Walk Away René. My copy is rather battered, I keep intending to find a better one since they seem unlikely to reprint it.

CDs are very frustrating to design for, especially some of the designs I’m asked to do which are heavily pictorial and which lose all their detail and impact when shrunk to CD size.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:45:28 +0000

A friend of mine had a book of Hipgnosis covers; I spent many a happy afternoon browsing through it.

It’s a pity CDs are smaller – so much less space to work with.

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:35:52 +0000

Good links, thanks. Mariana is a fellow traveller in these regions.

I love the work Hipgnosis did in the Seventies and Eighties, they were a huge inspiration for me as I usually mention in interviews. In the case of lesser bands, their designs were often better than the music they were asked to package.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:53:42 +0000

Hipgnosis did some really interesting stuff. Your juxtaposition of images reminds me of Gatochy's image associations and the picture itself reminds me of a beautiful one of Lucifer falling which a friend posted on their Livejournal but which I can't find, annoyingly (think it was a Symbolist artist though; not the Gustav Doré one).