Citizendia

Roger Dean logo
Roger Dean logo
Freyja's Castle (1987), showing Dean's characteristic landscapes, with organic-looking constructions.
Freyja's Castle (1987), showing Dean's characteristic landscapes, with organic-looking constructions.

Roger Dean (born August 31, 1944, in Ashford, Kent) is a contemporary English artist best known for his work on album covers, which he began painting in the late 1960s. Events 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the Throne Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The town of Ashford lies on the River Great Stour, M20 motorway, South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways in the borough of Ashford England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially-released audio recording product or Album.

Contents

Biography

Pathways (1973), from an album cover which depicts a scene with one of Dean's famous floating islands touched down on water.
Pathways (1973), from an album cover which depicts a scene with one of Dean's famous floating islands touched down on water.

Dean was born in England, but spent most of his childhood moving around the world with his British Army father. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. The family returned to England in 1959, where he was educated at The Norton Knatchbull School. The Norton Knatchbull School is a Secondary school for boys located in Ashford, Kent, England. He later earned a National Diploma of Design from the Canterbury School of Art. The Kent Institute of Art & Design ( KIAD - often ˈkaɪæd was an Art school based across three Campuses in the county of Kent, in the United In 1968, he graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. The Royal College of Art ( RCA) is a University in London, England. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Beginning in the field of design, he preferred to distinguish between design, or the reworking of existing models, and invention, or the making of something new. One of his inventions was the "sea urchin chair. " It was a foam chair, which, though appearing spherical, would conform to the sitter, who could obtain a seated position of varying angles. Later, he was asked to design a "landscape" of similar seating for a club belonging to Ronnie Scott. Ronnie Scott ( January 28 1927, in Aldgate, East London &ndash December 23 1996) was a British Jazz [1]. His "retreat pod" chair design was featured in the film A Clockwork Orange.

His first album cover work was in 1968 for a group called Gun. The Gun were an Acid rock band formed in 1967 in London. Consisting of Guitarist Adrian Gurvitz, Bassist Paul Gurvitz In 1971, Dean produced the cover for the first album by the African/Caribbean band, Osibisa, which attracted a lot of attention to his work. Osibisa is a band, founded in London in the year 1969 by four African and three Caribbean musicians who peaked in popularity in the Later that year, he began the partnership for which he is best known, designing his first album cover, Fragile, for the progressive rock band Yes. Fragile is the fourth album by British Progressive rock band Yes. Progressive rock (often shortened to " progressive " " prog " or " prog rock " is a form of Rock music that evolved Yes are an English Progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. Dean designed the classic Yes "bubble" logo, which first appeared on the album Close to the Edge, and has created covers for the band as recently as 1999 (The Ladder). Close to the Edge is the fifth album by British Progressive rock band Yes. The Ladder is the sixteenth album by Progressive rock band Yes and was released in 1999 Yes guitarist Steve Howe said, "There is a pretty tight bond between our sound and Roger's art. A guitarist is a Musician who plays the Guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres Stephen James "Steve" Howe (born April 8, 1947 in Holloway, North London, England) is an English Guitarist " In addition to their album covers, Dean also contributed to his brother Martyn Dean's stage set designs for the band. [2]

Known primarily for the dreamy, other-worldly scenes he has created for Yes, Budgie , Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant and other bands, Dean has said, "I don't really think of myself as a fantasy artist but as a landscape painter. Yes are an English Progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. Budgie are a Welsh Hard rock band from Cardiff, South Glamorgan. Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley (previously Gentle Giant was a British Progressive rock band, one of the most experimental of the 1970s " Characteristic landscapes show graceful stone arches (as shown in Arches Mist, above) or floating islands, while many paintings show organic appearing habitats (such as shown in the cover for Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, below). Though he primarily works in watercolour, many of his paintings make use of multiple media, including gouache, ink, enamel, crayon and collage. Watercolor ( US) or Watercolour ( UK) (and "aquarelle" in French is a Painting method Gouache, Pronounced "Gouash" (from the Italian guazzo, "water paint splash" or bodycolor (the term preferred by art historians An ink is a Liquid containing various Pigments and/or Dyes used for coloring a surface to produce an Image, text, or In a discussion of Material science, enamel (or vitreous enamel or porcelain enamel in U A crayon is a stick of colored Wax, Charcoal, Chalk, or other materials used for writing and Drawing. In addition to his cover paintings, Dean is respected for his calligraphic work, designing logos and titles to go with his paintings. A logo ( Greek el λογότυπος = el-Latn logotypos is a graphical element ( Ideogram, Symbol, Emblem, Icon, Sign)

Arches Mist, 1996. Another characteristic image, a moody landscape, showing fantastic natural features.
Arches Mist, 1996. Another characteristic image, a moody landscape, showing fantastic natural features.

Beginning in 1985 with the software company Psygnosis, Dean has been responsible for the cover artwork for several video games, including Tetris Worlds as well as a redesign of the Tetris logo. Psygnosis was a British Video game developer publisher, perhaps best known for their Lemmings, Wipeout Tetris Worlds is a version of the popular video game Tetris. It was originally released in 2001 for PC and the GBA. Tetris (Тетрис is a Video puzzle game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in June 1985 while working for the Dorodnicyn [3] Two compilations of his work, Views (1975)[1] (the success of which led him to form publishing house Paper Tiger Books) and Magnetic Storm (1984)[2], have been published. Paper Tiger is a publishing house started in 1976 by Martyn and Roger Dean, on the back of their success at publishing Dean's Views graphic album In addition, his architectural and furniture work have been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the Royal Academy. The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation Furniture is the Mass noun for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds, provide storage or hold objects on horizontal The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design housing a permanent collection This article refers to an art institution in London For other meanings of Royal Academy see Royal Academy (disambiguation.

Talking about the design of the Yes logo: An architect and furniture designer, Roger Dean worked with the curves in an elegant and natural way, providing to the image of the band with dynamism and a feeling of powerful flow. This logo represents perfectly the fantastic and surrealistic world of Yes music that Dean also pictured in his cover art for the band. It is also an example of how Roger Dean was one of the artists who made good use of the stroke in logo design, which became a personal signature on his works.

In early 2005, Dean announced plans to create a feature film titled Floating Islands. This film will be produced by Roger Dean and David Mousley. The story is based on the underlying theme depicted in the album artwork for Yes. It will feature animated 3D renderings of classic Dean images and music by Yes. 3D rendering is the 3D computer graphics process of automatically converting 3D Wire frame models into 2D images with 3D photorealistic effects on a computer In recent years, Roger Dean has focused a great deal on his architectural ideas. He has designed both homes and sustainable villages. Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present As a designer, Dean has developed all aspects of his homes, from construction techniques to emotional comfort and security. The design of these homes is based on his Home For Life concept, a house that is artistically beautiful and environmentally kind, but cheap and quick to build. [4]

Roger travels every summer to the North East Art Rock Festival, or NEARfest, as the invited guest, and has designed the festival logo every year since 2001. The North East Art Rock Festival, or NEARfest for short is a two-day event celebrating the resurgence of progressive and eclectic music in the United States He welcomes the chance to meet many of his fans in person and has signed thousands of autographs of his work. Dean has lived in Brighton since 1972. Brighton ( is a town on the south coast of England and with its neighbour Hove, forms the city of Brighton and Hove.

Album covers

Some of the following links are to images

Osibisa

Atomic Rooster

Yes

Budgie

Uriah Heep

Greenslade

Steve Howe

Asia

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

Rick Wakeman

The London Symphony Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra

Miscellaneous

Videogame covers

Books

References

  1. ^ a b Roger Dean (1975). Views. Reissue: Pomegranate (1993): ISBN 1-56640-448-7
  2. ^ a b Roger Dean (1984). Magnetic Storm. Reissue: Pomegranate (1993): ISBN 1-56640-449-5.
  3. ^ Roger Dean's profile at MobyGames
  4. ^ Home for Life designs at the official Roger Dean website

External links

MobyGames is a Website devoted to cataloging computer and video games, both past and present MobyGames is a Website devoted to cataloging computer and video games, both past and present
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic