![]() ![]() But he also created scores of other iconic rock images that filled our youthful imaginations, such as the dreamlike, distorted image of Peter Gabriel seen through a rain-streaked car windshield on his 1977 debut solo LP, Peter Gabriel, which became known as the "Car" album because of its striking cover. Thorgerson, a graduate of Royal College of Art in London and co-founder of the design firm Hipgnosis, was most strongly associated with Pink Floyd - he also dreamed up the incongruous cow on the cover of Pink Floyd's 1970 album Atom Heart Mother and the businessman in flames on 1975's Wish You Were Here, among others. That cover alone would have justified science-fiction author Douglas Adams' conclusion that Thorgerson was "the best album designer in the world." ![]() Graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, who died on April 18 at age 69 in his native England, created something that just about every boomer who came of age in the 1970s had in his milk crate of record albums: that iconic image of light passing through a prism that graced the cover of Pink Floyd's 1973 LP Dark Side of the Moon (see right). ![]()
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