Squaring the Circle
So, if you haven’t had enough in these posts about Hipgnosis, the design group-cum-art house begun by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, – where I began my own career… Read More →
Us And Them
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- by rich@rdevans.com
In the early 1970s, for a few brief years I was a shoe designer and ran a company called Daisy Roots Shoes with a very hip office-cum-showroom in Beauchamp Place,… Read More →
The Art of Hipgnosis
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- Tags: 10cc, Album covers, Aubrey Powell, Hipgnosis, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and Wings, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, storm thorgerson, The Dark Side of the Moon, Venus and Mars, Wings Over America, Wish You Were Here •
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A fantastic new exhibition opened on 19 January at the iconic, highly colourful post-modernist Groninger Museum in Groningen in the northern Netherlands. The Art of Hipgnosis is a celebration of… Read More →
The Christmas Post
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- Tags: Album art, Christmas card, greetings cards, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Blake, Pink Floyd, Shine On, The Corrs •
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I’ve lost count of the number of years I’ve been designing my own Christmas cards. It all started donkeys’ years ago when I’d send cards out as a sort of… Read More →
Hope
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘It will be happier.’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson A very happy Christmas to everyone and an even happier new year.… Read More →
Window Shopping
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- Tags: Album art, Album covers, Edition Prints, Richard Evans, Shop Window, The Who •
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I’m exhibiting some of my limited edition prints in a new venture called Shop Window. Shop Window is a new digital-format online exhibition catalogue which behaves just like a real… Read More →
Auguste in August
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- Tags: Alicia Robinson, Auguste Rodin, Designer, Dorthy & Michael Hintze Galleries, Richard Evans, V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum •
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- by rich@rdevans.com
I’ve been visiting the V&A museum in South Kensington, London for well over 50 years and each time I visit, I discover something new. Often it can be a quite… Read More →
Goodbye Milton Glaser
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- Tags: Album covers, Asylum Records, Bob Dylan, Edward Sorel, Elektra Records, Fletcher Forbes Gill, Graphic Design, I Heart NYC, I Love NYC, Milton Glaser, Poster Art, Push Pin Studio, Reid Miles, Reynolds Ruffins, Richard Evans, Saul Bass, Seymour Chwast, Steinweiss •
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When I was in my late teens, contemplating art school as the first step forward in my search for something I could make a living from and that I really… Read More →
Art in the Churches
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- Tags: Album covers, Alexandra Carr, Ana Rosa Hopkins, Art in churches, Eduardo Niebla, Harriet Hill, Jonathan Gibb, Richard Evans, Rock of Ages, Sarah Williams, Silvia Lerin, Yorkshire •
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I was up in North Yorkshire last week hoping to walk the fells around Hubberholme and Yockenthwaite in upper Langstrothdale as I had done the year before. Sadly this year… Read More →
Dave and Vince
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- Tags: Album covers, Amsterdam, Dave and Vince, David Hockney, Richard Evans, The Joy of Nature, Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent, Vincent Van Gogh •
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I’ve loved the work of Vincent Van Gogh pretty much all of my life. I discovered very early on that I share a birthday with him, 30 March, which somehow… Read More →