Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Two art students, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, craft a trippy photo collage for their musician friends in 1968. That piece becomes the cover for 'A Saucerful of Secrets,' igniting twin trajectories of fame. One path leads to Pink Floyd, a band destined to define the sonic landscape of a generation. The other births Hipgnosis, a design studio that, over the next quarter-century, would forge a stream of iconic album sleeves for rock titans like Led Zeppelin and Genesis. They transformed the humble record jacket into a canvas for visionary art, where surreal imagery and conceptual depth became as integral to the music as the grooves on the vinyl.