Storm Thorgenson (born 1944) is one of those people I am in awe of, an english graphic designer well known for his work over the past 35 years designing album covers for rock bands. And in my opinion, one of the best album designers in the world.

The amazing thing is that many of the album covers were designed before Photoshop and other advanced computer design software was created, so Storm often used just photography, paint and sculpture instead to create these masterpieces.

He is best known for creating the many album covers for Pink Floyd and various other album covers for The Mars Volta, Muse, Cranberries, Audioslave, Bruce Dickinson, The Offspring, Powderfinger, and many more.He also was part of a British art design group called Hipgnosis that specialized in creating album cover art and dealt with bands such as Led Zepplin, 10cc, Bad Company, AC/DC and Genesis to name a few.

So why am I w riting about Mista Storm? because I have worked my butt off for the last few days and managed to win a couple of design comps that have enabled me to attend a design event here that means I get to see Storm and hear him talk. Fucking fantastically excited He is fascinating to listen to ….

I bought my ticket today

Wow. New Zealand is a country that boasts some amazingly talented creative people.  There is also a spirit here that makes me proud to call myself a Kiwi.

A guy puts a song together, plonks it on youtube on the 17th April. Now it’s had over 20,000 views, and it’s just been sent off to Los Angeles to be digitally remastered. News article here