Limited edition (325), 12-color silkscreen fine art print made from the original artwork on Somerset tub sized 410gsm

Produced by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell (Hipgnosis); Signed, numbered and titled by Storm Thorgerson

Printed by Coriander Studios, London

Print size 33" x 25½", Image size 19" x 19"

Unmatted/unframed - sorry, but we do NOT currently stock a frame of this size. (click here for custom framing information)

2003 marked the 30th anniversary of this album - Pink Floyd’s commercial-meets-conceptual equinox. No.1 on the Billboard album charts in March of 1973, this recording went on to achieve a record 741 weeks (or 14 whole years) on the ‘Top 200 Albums’ chart. It is the longest-charting album ever (beating its nearest rival by five years), with well over thirty five million copies sold to date.

Of minor significance was the complete appropriateness of the artwork to the record. Says Storm Thorgerson, ‘the design is simply a mechanical tint lay, which means we drew outline shapes, black on white, and indicated what colours were to appear when printed. The prisms were airbrushed black on white and reversed by the printer. The idea itself was cunningly cobbled from a standard physics textbook, which illustrated light passing through a prism.

Of significance was the simple, elegant layout against black - standard textbook illustrations did not do this. And then to connect this idea to their live show, which was famous for its lighting, and subsequently to connect this to ambition and madness, themes Roger was exploring in the lyrics… hence the prism, the triangle and the pyramids.

It all connects, somehow, somewhere.’. Says Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, ‘We knew that the package – the record and the cover and everything together – was going to be far, far stronger than anything we had done before.’

And so it came to be.