Roger Dean

Roger Dean , born in 1944, is an artist English. He is undoubtedly most known of the artists implied in the illustration of the progressive Rock and this thanks to the logo S and with the small pocket S which he conceived as of 1971 for the group Yes and then for Asia.

The Dessin S of Roger Dean evoke in a way stylized of the landscapes and strange worlds inspired by the fantastic Littérature and the Science-fiction. Its imposing universes with the lights étincelantes often in let us tons blue Cobalt, populated at the time of mythical creatures, were thousand times imitated.

With the Yes group

Chosen by Rolling Stone Magazine among the 50 best small pockets of the century, that of Bruise from Topographic Oceans , of the group Yes, illustrates with wonder the music and the cosmic texts of the album. With its blocks of desert rocks, its magic source, its sunrise, its Maya temple and its Poisson S swimming in an atmosphere azuréenne, it are the prototype of the style of Dean. But the small pockets of Fragile, To relay, Drama, Yesterdays, Keys To Ascension or The Ladder are worth that one well. Images and music never met better and supplemented but on collaborations Yes - Roger Dean so much so that one cannot any more listen to or look at one without thinking of the other.

Other collaborations

Roger Dean is also the illustrator of the jackets of the video games of the company Psygnosis (which will become thereafter the studio Sony/Liverpool), specialized in the design of sets of actions to very graphic high-quality for computers 16/32bits of the years 1980-1990 (the such Atari ST and Amiga).

Roger Dean began his collaboration with Psygnosis by conceiving the logo (the owl) and the lettering of the company. Then it in particular drew the jackets and/or In-range of Brataccas (1985), Barbarian (1987), and those of Shadow off the Beast (I and II only), play of action which will contribute to the success of the Amiga 500 vis-a-vis its competitor direct, Atari ST and the PC of then.

Roger Dean is also the editor of two famous picture books to the format of a LP 33 turns: the first, Views (1975), devoted to its pictorial work and the second, Album Cover Album , dedicated to the history of the small pockets of discs.

External bond

Roger Dean his Internet site
Alone In The past, history of Psygnosis
The Purple Owl, site on Psygnosis (English)

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