Mind Over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd

By Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon

This book features the images from Pink Floyd's album sleeves and promotional material designed for the group. It features almost all Pink Floyd's iconic album covers, posters, singles bags, a selection of band photos, booklet pages and rough artwork that developed into iconic designs. This new edition incorporates an additional 32 pages of material used in re-issues created since 2007. Storm Thorgerson, who died in 2013, was a world-famous designer whose memoirs of his time spent with Pink Floyd are combined with all the artwork he created to represent the band at each stage of their career. Storm revisited the work he created for the albums and offers insights into the work that went into the creation of this legendary album art. Designers who worked with Storm have all contributed to this new edition of Mind Over Matter. Amongst the new material is artwork from the Oh By The Way box set, the Atom Heart Mother 40th Anniversary 'Wire Cow' sculpture, the Why Pink Floyd? Campaign and the Dark Side Of The Moon 40th Anniversary images and stickers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Release date: Jan 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781783235636

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Reviews for Mind Over Matter

[librarianwilk · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

For as intriguing as Storm's graphic design is, his writing is rather weak. Just get it for the pictures.

[tobinelliott · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Not only a lovely book to look at, this is an in-depth dive into the visuals of Pink Floyd.

But it's also so much more than that. Storm Thorgerson, while apparently being a bit of a handful to deal with, shows a fun, curmudgeonly side of himself, thick with sarcasm and and smartass humour as he takes you through a walking tour of all the work he was involved in with the band over the years.

It's also a primer on creativity as a whole, and not being satisfied with doing the same damn thing as everyone else is doing. Honestly, whenever you see an album cover created by Hipgnosis, you know it. It's different from everything else out there.

This is a solid book for Pink Floyd completists, but it's also a great book for anyone interested in visual art, and the thinking that goes into it to make it rise about the din of the exceptionally average.