Brief 1 - Design is About Doing: Storm Thorgerson

Storm Thorgerson is perhaps one of the most well known designers for records. His style incorporates different aspects which would not be seen together or are impossible to create surrealist art work but through the medium of photography rather than paint; like traditional surrealism art.

This piece shows the distress of part of him missing. An idea similar to this could work well for the Elbow piece.

I love the use of big sheets of cloth. If it were practical it would be cool to do this but then shape the cloth so that a the outline makes the outline of a face.

A classic and perhaps one of the most famous pieces. Using a simple idea this piece doesn't need any text for people to know what the album is.

The muse albums are probably the earliest albums I remember listening to and being fascinated by their artwork. I clearly rememeber thinking how different they were from other albums are their surreality meant I found myself staring at them for ages.

I love the use of combining two images together to create a new surreal one. Being able to see the sea level makes it more interesting like you are seeing two parts of a scene.