54-465: Roger Dean may refer to: Roger Dean (artist) (born 1944) Roger Dean (Australian politician) (1913–1998) Roger Dean (footballer) (born 1940), Australian rules footballer Roger Dean (guitar player) (born 1943), British guitar player and teacher Roger Dean (musician) (born 1948), British-Australian jazz pianist Roger Dean Stadium , baseball stadium, Florida Roger Kingsley Dean, jailed for
108-504: A $ 50 million lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in New York, alleging that director James Cameron had plagiarised 14 of his original images in the film Avatar (2009). Although the filmmakers admitted to being influenced by his work, a judge dismissed the case. Dean felt the judge failed to properly examine the evidence provided. "I showed half a dozen different details that they copied specifically from it that didn't occur in nature. But
162-449: A National Diploma in Design. He was removed from a life drawing class by the principal for being "young and impressionable", and was informed he could not take it due to maths and physics being his other subjects, leading a switch to studying industrial design. As the school was trying to become accredited in the subject, Dean bypassed its foundation level course but disliked the way the subject
216-560: A child, and Chinese landscape art and feng shui became particular influences on him during his time in Hong Kong. He has cited landscape, "and the pathways through it", as his greatest influence and source of inspiration. In 1959, after the family had returned to England, Dean attended Ashford Grammar School followed by his entry in 1961 to the Canterbury College of Art studying silversmithing and furniture design and graduated with
270-515: A decline in combining music with art, with the jewel case looking "tacky" and a way for record companies sacrificing quality to save money. He cites the early CD reissue of Close to the Edge by Yes as one that particularly affected him as his inner sleeve artwork was missing, replaced with black and white text. Dean lives in Lewes , East Sussex. He has a daughter, Freyja, who also an artist and designer and
324-622: A demonic-themed design that Dean originally made in his sketchbook for his thesis, for the album's cover. Dean revisited the original design and was paid around £5,000 for his work, which was more than he had earned with architecture, and with much less effort. He decided to venture into cover design not purely for the money, but its wider audience and its use "as a propaganda tool [...] showing people what might be and what could be". Dean picked up work where he could, including covers for various jazz artists for Vertigo Records which he disliked, calling them "austere exercises" and too restrictive for
378-492: A landscape painter. Characteristic landscapes show graceful stone arches (as shown in Arches Mist ) or floating islands, while many paintings portray organic-seeming habitats, such as on the cover of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe . Though he primarily works with watercolour paints, many of his paintings make use of multiple media, including gouache , ink, enamel , crayon and collage. In addition to his cover paintings, Dean
432-451: A long relationship with the Isle of Man , and especially with its long-term resident Rick Wakeman , keyboardist of Yes, for which Dean has designed several pieces of album artwork. The First Day Cover (FDC) was also issued in a limited 750-issue run which were signed by Dean (this cover was issued on 2 September 2016). On 20 August 2016, an exhibition of Dean's masterpieces went on display at
486-584: A nationwide merchandising campaign including posters and t-shirts that led to the creation of the production company Brockum. In 1972, Dean designed the logo for Richard Branson 's newly established Virgin Records label, following several labels and designs he produced for Branson's Virgin record shop in London, such as the carrier bags. A photographic variation of Dean's Virgin logo was used for its subsidiary label, Caroline Records . In 1973, Vertigo Records changed
540-408: A painting had been completed except the typesetting, "So to bluff my way through the meeting I had to handwrite it all and hope they would never ask about it". The label's staffers were enthusiastic, which gave Dean the confidence to pursue more handwriting, logo, and graphic work. By 1971, Dean's desire to produce artwork for rock bands had grown though he continued to pursue architecture and headed
594-459: A patent for it in the following year. It has been considered to be a predecessor to the bean bag , whereby the chair compresses and fully adapts to the shape and size of the user. The design was completed when Dean was one of the few students picked from the Royal College to design and make objects in famed designer Cherrill Scheer's factory. The chair remains one of Scheer's favourite pieces. It
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#1732872672456648-581: A planet that was breaking up, so they had to build a space ark to find another planet to live on. And they towed all the little bits of the planet with them". In 1972, he designed the band's logo while travelling on the Brighton Belle train, which has been used on most of their albums since Close to the Edge (1972). In addition to their covers, Dean and his brother Martyn worked on the stage design for Yes from 1973 to 1976, 1980, 1989, and 2004. The tour for Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973) featured
702-469: A small exhibition of his work in Florence. Following discussions with A&R man David Howells, who had assigned Dean the sleeve for The Gun , Dean agreed to work on the cover of Osibisa (1971) by Afro-rock band Osibisa . The design is a result of a brief that Dean described as "credible African fairytale imagery" and features "flying elephants and not architecture", which became an early representation of
756-566: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Roger Dean (artist) William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944) is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He began painting posters and album covers for musicians in the late 1960s. The groups for whom he did the most art are the English rock bands Yes and Asia . The covers often feature exotic fantasy landscapes . His work has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. William Roger Dean
810-540: Is in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum ; there are two double MA/ MSc programmes with Imperial College London . In addition to formal qualifications the RCA also offers Summer school and Executive education courses throughout the year. English for academic purposes (EAP) courses are offered to applicants who need to improve their academic English ability to meet the college's entry requirements. In early 2019,
864-502: Is now a part of the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum . In 1968, during his third year at the Royal College, Dean was assigned a project which involved the design of a contemporary landscape seating area of the upstairs disco at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho. This led to the design of his first album cover, Gun (1968) by rock band The Gun , after owner Ronnie Scott and business partner Jimmy Parsons asked him to use
918-416: Is respected for his calligraphic work, designing logos and titles to go with his paintings. Dean was friends with album cover designer Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and the two lived in the same building after leaving university. He recalled a time when they collaborated on an album cover, but it turned out to be "a complete failure". The rise of the compact disc in the 1980s led to what Dean described as
972-426: Is the inspiration behind Dean's 1987 painting Freyja's Castle . The pair have collaborated on work, exhibitions and stage productions. She produced the cover art for Osibisa's album Osee Yee (2009). Dean is mentioned in the 1987 song " Dickie Davies Eyes " by English band Half Man Half Biscuit . On 19 August 2016, the Isle of Man Post Office issued a series of 6 stamps featuring Dean's artwork: Dean has had
1026-642: Is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offers postgraduate degrees in art and design to students from over 60 countries. The RCA was founded in Somerset House in 1837 as the Government School of Design or Metropolitan School of Design . Richard Burchett became head of the school in 1852. In 1853 it was expanded and moved to Marlborough House , and then, in 1853 or 1857, to South Kensington , on
1080-639: The Manx Museum . A special FDC was issued on 25 March 2018, to celebrate 50 years of Yes – this was a different cover to the August 2016 one, and was postmarked in Gold to record this historic event and signed personally by Dean who has created a special 50th Anniversary logo. A limited edition of 1000 signed covers were issued. Dean's artwork was featured in a collaboration with Italian fashion house Valentino for their spring/summer 2020 men's collection. In
1134-537: The circular economy . In 2024, the RCA was placed first in the art and design subject area in the QS World University Rankings published by Quacquarelli Symonds for the tenth year in a row, with an overall score of 98.5/100. For the second consecutive year the RCA was also ranked first place in the History of Art category, which incorporates programmes teaching the history of design. In August 2015 it
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1242-592: The 2011 Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire in which 11 died See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Roger Dean [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Dean&oldid=705762675 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1296-598: The Arts , also in San Francisco. Dean has two permanent galleries, his largest at Trading Boundaries, East Sussex in the UK and the other at The San Francisco Art Exchange. Both galleries display original works and limited edition prints, sketches and drawings. Known primarily for the dreamy, other-worldly scenes he has created for Yes , Asia , Budgie , Uriah Heep , Gentle Giant and other bands, Dean has described himself primarily as
1350-661: The Beast (1989). Dean redesigned the Tetris logo which led to the design of the cover art for Tetris Worlds (2001). In 1996, Dean produced artwork for a poster distributed nationwide to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Starbucks . Dean received an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2002, and an honorary fellowship from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2009. In 2013, Dean filed
1404-468: The European General Manager of Atlantic Records . Carson took an interest in using Dean for one of his rock acts, Yes , and hired Dean for the cover of Yes's fourth album, Fragile (1971), which marked the beginning of an association with the band to the present day. Dean pitched a story on a creation myth rather than a particular image for it, "about a child who dreamt they were living on
1458-405: The RCA announced the launch of its new GenerationRCA programme. GenerationRCA -among other initiatives- will also "inject science disciplines into the mix of creative disciplines traditionally on offer." The new programmes will include Environmental Architecture and Digital Direction; with future programmes centred on nano and soft robotics, computer science, and machine learning, material science and
1512-682: The Royal College of Art launched its first-ever online graduate exhibition, RCA2020 . The RCA today has three campuses located in South Kensington , Battersea and White City . The Darwin Building in Kensington Gore , South Kensington, was completed 1960–1963. It is a short distance from the RCA's home 1896–1967 in the Henry Cole Building , now part of the V&;A Museum . The Darwin Building
1566-650: The Sculpture building into a new Arts & Humanities building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with work planned for completion in late 2021. A masterplan was commissioned from Haworth Tompkins and phase one of their three-phase design was completed with the opening of the Sackler Building on 19 November 2009, to house the painting department. Its name commemorates a major gift by The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation . The Dyson Building, named in honour of James Dyson , whose charity donated £5m towards
1620-441: The college in 1965 to study furniture design and became a student of Professor David Pye . Among his research was the "psychology of architecture" and what made people feel comfortable in buildings. He did a thesis about "producing a sense of tranquillity in domestic architecture". He graduated from the college in 1968 with a masters first degree honours, and won a silver medal for "work of special distinction". By this time, Dean
1674-483: The design of its record labels from a spiral pattern to a pictorial one by Dean that featured two spaceships. While working on the art for Yessongs (1973), Dean and his printers Tinsley Robor secured a patent for "a way of going from gatefold to any number of pages, folded out of one piece of card". In the late 1970s, Dean had an idea for Living in the Third Millennium , a thirteen episode television show about
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1728-399: The designs and technological challenges of the future, yet it never made it to production due to budget constraints. In the 1980s, Dean's output focused on other areas, including stage design, architecture, and video game art. He was approached by Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis to design the costumes for Flash Gordon (1980), but declined as film work required him to relinquish
1782-554: The digital art auction platform Nifty Gateway , featuring non-fungible token art pieces. In 2022, an exhibition of works by Dean and his daughter Freyja was displayed at the Haight Street Art Center in San Francisco, entited The Secret Path. Later in 2022, an immersive exhibition featuring Dean's artwork presented in high definition 4D audio and video with laser projections was held at the Gray Area Foundation for
1836-437: The ideas he wished to convey. The experience led Dean to establish a commission before starting work he wanted to do, leading to a short period of financial hardship. At the same time he wanted to release a book on architecture, but faced rejection from 27 different publishers. Dean designed the logo to the independent label Fly Records in 1970. This led to a single for their musician Marc Bolan , which involved typesetting
1890-505: The judge, reverting to this idea that the work has to be taken as a whole and you don't go into detail, he took all my evidence out. Then when he came back to the concept that I'm saying they copied in detail things that they claimed I'd taken from nature, my evidence was gone." In 2013, Dean received a Gold Badge of Merit from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors . In March 2021, Dean released his first artwork on
1944-436: The liner notes and lyrics, but Dean had not performed typesetting before and completed the inserts by hand with the assistance of a graphic designer, in order to show the printing staff where the text was to be placed. The positive reaction Dean received from his style of writing led to him handwriting the text for further Bolan singles. This was a similar case for Dean's design for Clear Blue Sky (1970) by Clear Blue Sky, where
1998-547: The manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean the stand Dragon's Dream is named after Roger Dean's art book of the same name Dean Venture from the Adult Swim television show The Venture Bros. is named after Roger Dean Books Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art ( RCA ) is a public research university in London , United Kingdom , with campuses in South Kensington , Battersea and White City . It
2052-415: The name Royal College of Art , and the emphasis of teaching there shifted to the practice of art and design. Teaching of graphic design , industrial design and product design began in the mid-twentieth century. The school expanded further in the 1960s, and in 1967 it received a royal charter which gave it the status of an independent university with the power to grant its own degrees. In July 2020,
2106-441: The non-working prototype contains no straight edges or right angles. In the early 2000s, the cost to produce one was estimated to be $ 75,000–$ 80,000. Although several local British governments have expressed interest in the project, none have come into fruition. In 2003, a project involving the construction of 264 villas, chalets, and apartments designed by Dean on a 65-acre site near Stourport-on-Severn , Worcestershire had entered
2160-632: The ownership of his designs. In 1981, he collaborated with his brother Martyn on the Tectonic House, an environmentally-friendly and economic home that was displayed at the annual International Ideal Home Exhibition in Birmingham. The idea spawned from two ideas–Dean's earlier designs for a bedroom intended for the safety of children, and Martyn's "retreat pod" from 1970 that Stanley Kubrick borrowed for his film A Clockwork Orange (1971). The project has developed into its current name, Home for Life, and
2214-476: The planning stage. In 1982, readers of Rolling Stone voted Dean's cover for Asia 's debut studio album as the second greatest album cover of all time, behind Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) by the Beatles . His logo for the band featured hard edges and sharp corners on purpose, as a contrast to the had produced for Yes. Dean's first design for a video game was The Black Onyx (1984), which
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2268-604: The same site as the South Kensington Museum . It was renamed the Normal Training School of Art in 1857 and the National Art Training School in 1863. During the later 19th century it was primarily a teacher training college ; pupils during this period included George Clausen , Christopher Dresser , Luke Fildes , Kate Greenaway and Gertrude Jekyll . In September 1896 the school received
2322-447: The style he later achieved fame with. Dean considered the job a breakthrough for his career as the design was made into a poster by the Big 'O' poster company which sold a large number of copies. He later said, "From that point on I could do what I wanted". In mid-1971, during his search for work affiliated with rock bands, Dean sent a portfolio to numerous executives including Phil Carson ,
2376-523: The suffragette movement Sylvia Pankhurst , the musician Ian Dury , sound artist Janek Schaefer , and the actor Alan Rickman . The artist and graduate Gerald Holtom designed the CND symbol in 1958, which has become a nearly universal peace symbol . The Royal College of Art Society amalgamated with OSARCA (the Old Students Association of the RCA 1912) for the benefit of graduates and associates of
2430-592: The third RCA campus, co-located with the BBC Media Village and accommodating the School of Communication, Animation and Digital Direction and Communication Design in buildings designed by Allies and Morrison . The RCA offers a Graduate Diploma pre-masters conversion programme, MA , MRes , MPhil and PhD degrees in twenty-eight subject areas, divided into four schools: architecture, arts & humanities, communication, and design. The history of design programme
2484-498: The third-highest rating in the art and design subject area; over all subject areas only about fifty institutions received a higher rating. The Royal College of Art and its predecessor schools have numerous notable alumni. Among those who studied in the RCA predecessor bodies in the nineteenth century were Sir George Clausen , Christopher Dresser , Sir Luke Fildes , Kate Greenaway , Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens . Alumni from
2538-629: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries include the sculptors Jean Gibson , Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore , painters Frank Auerbach , Sir Peter Blake , Frank Bowling , David Hockney , Bridget Riley , Gavin Turk and Charles Tunnicliffe , artists Jake and Dinos Chapman , Tracey Emin and R. B. Kitaj , fashion designers Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes , industrial designers James Dyson , and David Mellor , film directors Tony and Ridley Scott , writer Travis Jeppesen , designers Thomas Heatherwick and architect Sir David Adjaye , prominent member of
2592-622: The £21m cost, was opened on 24 September 2012. It houses printmaking and photography , and contains an innovation wing where start-up designers can launch their businesses. The Woo Building was opened on 30 September 2015, completing the Battersea project. It is named in honour of Sir Po-Shing and Lady Helen Woo , who have funded scholarships at the RCA since the 1990s. It accommodates the Ceramics & Glass and Jewellery & Metal programmes. The building's anodised aluminium gates were designed by alumnus Max Lamb . In 2017 RCA White City became
2646-439: Was a collaboration with comic artist Michael Kaluta . It marked the beginning of a series of designs Dean produced for Henk Rogers , who designed the game. The project involved Dean and Kaluta producing an estimated 4,000 drawings for the game, including ideas for its animation, story, music, and motion capture. Dean went on to produce the cover artwork for several Psygnosis games, including Obliterator (1988) and Shadow of
2700-579: Was born on 31 August 1944 in Ashford, Kent . His mother studied dress design at Canterbury School of Art before her marriage and his father was an engineer in the British Army . He has three siblings, brother Martyn and sisters Penny and Philippa. Much of Dean's childhood was spent in Greece, Cyprus, and, from age 12 to 15, Hong Kong, so his father could carry out army duties. Dean was very keen on natural history as
2754-571: Was designed by a team of RCA staff members, H. T. Cadbury-Brown , Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden, and since 2001 has been a Grade II listed building . It is named after painter Sir Robert Vere Darwin , known as Robin Darwin, who was the rector at the time the building was commissioned. Although there was modest development into the mews behind the Darwin Building, the restricted site meant further expansion had to be in another part of London. In 1991
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#17328726724562808-455: Was interested in "designing the future [...] boxes for people to live in". He considered Rick Griffin 's artwork for Aoxomoxoa (1969) by the Grateful Dead as his "first big visual shock" and bought the album prior to owning a record player. Among Dean's first successes was his sea urchin chair design which spawned from his research at the Royal College and completed in 1967. He filed
2862-497: Was ranked first on a list of master's courses in fashion by Business of Fashion, a fashion website. In April 2011 the RCA was ranked first on a list of UK graduate art schools compiled by Modern Painters magazine from a survey of professionals in the art world. In the Research Assessment Exercise of December 2008, 40% of the research output of the school received the highest (4* or "world-leading") assessment,
2916-455: Was taught and questioned the teachers as to why people had to live in "boxes" and their response in that "form follows function". Towards the end of the course at Canterbury, Dean was faced with the option of pursuing either architecture or industrial design; one of his tutors thought neither were for him, and recommended that Dean study at the Royal College of Art in London. He enrolled at
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