Iconic Album Art Designers Hipgnosis Created Pink Floyd's Famous Flying Pig

Hipgnosis was a London design company that created 415 album covers between 1968 and 1983
They created the famous cover for Pink Floyd's "Animals" album featuring the inflatable pig that escaped into Heathrow Airport's airspace
Hipgnosis co-founders Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell had contrasting approaches to working with artists and record labels
Hipgnosis took creating album covers very seriously and put a lot of thought into their designs
A new documentary called "Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)" explores the history of the influential design company