Storm Thorgerson was an influential English graphic designer best known for his album cover art for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. He developed a 6-stage process for creating album covers that involved meeting with artists to discuss ideas, developing rough concepts, creating prototypes for feedback, photographing models and locations for the shoot, editing the photos in post-production, and finalizing the artwork for approval. Thorgerson passed away in 2013 at age 69 and was praised for his creative contributions and friendship.

1. STORM THORGERSON DIGIPAK RESEARCH

2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April
2013) was an English graphic designer, best known for his
work for rock artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and
Black Sabbath.
He is one of the most influential designers of our time.
He created a 6 stage approach to the way in which he
created and designs album covers which will be beneficial
for this stage in my project.
He sadly passed away on 18 April 2013, at the age of 69
where he earlier had a stroke but died due to cancer.
"a constant force in my life, both at work and in private, a
shoulder to cry on, and a great friend".

3. THE 6 STAGE PROCESS

4. THE BRIEF
The designer meets with the artist or band
to discuss the genre of the music. They
will go through song titles and lyrics to
help aid the designs. The designer will
then come up with shapes and colour
schemes relevant top the overall feel and
style of the artists work.

5. ROUGHS
The band and the designer meet again to
try and funnel down the ideas and come to
an agreement on specifics. Here word play
is used along with scribbling's to help
come up with the big idea.

6. TESTS
Here the designer will haver drawn up
some different ideas based on the
information given by the band. The
prototypes generated will be able to have
feedback given and the designs adapted
or tweaked to suit the band completely if
necessary.

7. THE SHOOT
Here a photo-shoot is done using models
and other props if needed to create the
Digi pack cover. A location is chosen and
the shot takes place there for long periods
of time.
Many pictures are taken using different
angles, shots and lenses etc. to create a
different look. The lighting is also
experimented with at this stage of the
process, this will make the editing section

8. THE EDITING
Here once the photo-shoot is done, the
designer then uses post production effects
on the best shots taken.
Here different filters and effects are placed
on the images to give them a new feel.

9. THE ARTWORK
Now a final image is selected and the
editing has been completed on it. The
artwork is looked at by the band and it
should with all the research fit with the
song(s).
The artwork is then handed to the band to
use as their cover.