Roger Dean

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Roger Dean (born August 31, 1944 in Ashford , Kent , Great Britain ) is a contemporary British artist who was best known for the record covers he designed.

Life

Dean was born in England but spent part of his youth in Greece, Cyprus and Hong Kong as his father was in the British Army. In 1959 the family returned to England and Dean graduated from the Canterbury School of Art (now the Kent Institute of Art & Design) with a design diploma after first trying silversmithing and furniture design. In 1968 he graduated from the Royal College of Art in London .

He designed his first album cover for the band Gun . In 1971 he designed a cover for the group Osibisa , which made him known due to the success of the record. In the same year he began working for the group Yes , whose LP Fragile had a cover designed by Dean for the first time and for which he was to design numerous other covers. Dean also designed the group's distinctive longtime logo, first seen on the Close to the Edge album , and the follow -up logo . Guitarist Steve Howe saw a connection between the sound of the group and Dean's art (“a pretty tight bond between our sound and Roger's art”).

Dean's fantasy- like, utopian scenes adorned albums by Budgie , Uriah Heep , Gentle Giant and many other bands. Dean sees himself as a landscape painter ("landscape painter"). His preferred and often combined painting techniques are gouache, watercolors, ink, chalk and collage techniques.

In 1977 he was awarded the World Fantasy Award .

In the illustrated books Views (1975) and Magnetic Storm (1984), Dean's work became known to a public beyond the music press. In addition to painting, Dean, who has lived in Brighton since 1972, has also made a name for himself with architecture and furniture design. Similar works have been the subject of exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts .

Dean designed the Tetris World video game . In 2005 he announced a beginning film project called Floating Islands with David Mousley, in which music and cover motifs by Yes are to be animated and combined.

There is currently an ongoing discussion about the striking similarities between the science fiction adventure Avatar - Departure for Pandora by James Cameron and his works. Roger Dean was not involved in the making of the film.

Record cover after Dean

Gun

Third Ear Band

Earth & Fire

  • 1970 Earth & Fire (UK edition on Nepentha)

Alexis Korner

Badger

  • 1972 One Live Badger

Compilation / Various Artists

  • 1971 Motown Chartbusters Vol. VI

Mike Absalom

  • 1971 Mike Absalom 6-fold FOC cover

Yes

Atomic Rooster

  • 1971 In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
  • 2002 Resurrection

Osibisa

  • 1971 Osibisa
  • 1971 Woyaya

Gentle giant

  • 1972 octopus

Budgie

  • 1972 Squawk
  • 1973 Never Turn Your Back On a Friend
  • 1996 An Ecstasy of Fumbling: The Definitive Anthology

Uriah Heep

  • 1972 Demons and Wizards
  • 1972 The Magician's Birthday
  • 1995 Sea of ​​Light
  • 2001 Acoustically Driven
  • 2001 remasters

Greenslade

  • 1973 Greenslade
  • 1973 Bedside Manners are Extra
  • 1976 Cactus Choir

Snafu

  • 1973 SNAFU

Steve Howe

  • 1975 Beginnings
  • 1979 The Steve Howe Album
  • 1991 Turbulence
  • 1994 Not Necessarily Acoustic
  • 2003 Elements

Glass hammer

  • 2005 The Inconsolable Secret

Asia

  • 1982 Asia
  • 1983 Alpha
  • 1985 Astra
  • 1994 Aria
  • 2000 aura

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe

Rick Wakeman

  • 1993 Rick Wakeman's Greatest Hits
  • 1999 Return to the Center of the Earth

London Symphony Orchestra

  • 1997 Symphonic Rock: American Classics
  • 1997 Symphonic Rock: The British Invasion, Vol. 1
  • 1998 Symphonic Rock: The British Invasion, Vol. 2

White ( Alan White )

  • 2006 White

Rare Earth

  • 1971 One World (The center fold of the cover. The same illustration was used as the outer cover of The Rarest On Earth , a compilation with artists from the 'Rare Earth' label.)

White Willow

  • 2017 Future Hopes

Record label designs by Dean

  • 1969 Harvest Records (Both the actual trademark and the design of the yellow-green label are from Dean.)
  • 1972–1976 Virgin Records (all so-called mirror images , based on female nudes, which were shown mirrored in different variants.)
  • 1973 Vertigo Records (the so-called "UFO" label, or "Spaceship Vertigo").
  • Fly Records

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of WFA winners
  2. ↑ Charlie Jane Anders: Did Prog Rock's Greatest Artist Inspire Avatar? All Signs Point To Yes. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ James White: Avatar and Roger Dean. Retrieved January 15, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Cover , template
personal data
SURNAME Dean, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashford (Kent)