Magnetic Storm [Paperback]

Roger Dean (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 29, 1986

First published in 1984, Magnetic Storm followed in the groundbreaking footsteps of the million-selling Views (1975). Once again employing a large format and lavish production to showcase the unique art and design of Roger Dean, this iconic book was a retrospective of the astonishing breadth of work accomplished since the publication of its predecessor. Through Views and Magnetic Storm, Roger Dean established a devoted readership, while Dragon's Dream (2008) demonstrates how his visionary work has continued to illuminate an age of digital animation, computer games, and virtual worlds.

Embracing designs for record sleeves, rock stages, movie projects, architecture, games consoles, landscapes, and books, Magnetic Storm features everything from innovative aircraft livery to the Yes logo. This new edition streamlines the original format and retains the combination of concept sketches and the finished works. Featuring revised design and typography, a new foreword, and a newly finished painting that Roger supplied especially for the front cover of this edition, Magnetic Storm showcases and celebrates the art that defined an era.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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About the Author

Roger Dean is internationally acclaimed as an artist and designer whose evocative and visionary images created a new genre. Made popular through the medium of album covers and posters, his work has sold in excess of 100 million copies. Roger became widely known in the 1970s for his album cover designs for Yes—including the classic logo now in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London—and a poll of Rolling Stone readers selected five of his designs in the top twenty best album covers of all time.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 154 pages
• Publisher: Harmony; First US Edition edition (June 29, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 051755626X
• ISBN-13: 978-0517556269
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 11.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,571,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars See into the eye of the magnetic storm...., October 13, 2001

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Rae Schwarz "post-modern Renaissance woman" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magnetic Storm (Paperback)

Creating a sucessor to VIEWS is a hard enough concept, but Roger Dean has produced another master document of his work. Following along the same path as his first book, again we get the album size/shape presentation and tons of full color reproductins of Dean's sketches and renderings. This book was the first whereby I truly grasped Dean's illustrations as architechtural renderings, as lots of the projects covered in this volume are 3D projects worked on with his brother Martyn: built YES stages, modelling retreat pods and designing home and buildings. Imagine a YES album cover as a dwelling, and grab this book to show you how and why it is possible. Stunning follow-up, fantastic production values not seen often in modern paperbacks.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ...a generous 4 stars... but still, quite nice, June 23, 2009

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Richard A. Tucker "Tucker at large" (Pembroke Pines, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magnetic Storm (Hardcover)

With this, the last book in the series of books covering the work of visualist, artist and illustrator Roger Dean, I can only conclude that as nice as these volumes are the only one that deserves a 5 star rating is the last and latest volume, Dragon's Dream.
Magnetic Storm is a little better than the Views in that Roger's ideas are more fully realized and his art is considerably improved. This latest edition of MS is quite good but the reproductions, due to their smaller format, are lacking just a little. The color reproduction is darker, more intensified than the previous edition's reproductions. Some of the art falls flat because of decisions made, like reproducing pencil work darker, adding higher contrast that actually looses some of that line work while it builds up the darker lines, sometimes muddying them. Also, the choice to reproduce those drawings on white paper instead of the previous edition's off white and cream colored paper makes the drawings more stark and and less appealing to the eye.
Where I thought I would replace my old editions with the new ones, well, I think I'll have to put that off for a while. It is unlikely that these wonderful books will be reprinted again so, for now, I'll be hanging on to both editions. The saving aspect of all these editions are the nice, sturdy hardcover treatment, making these books better able to withstand a lot of use and therefore have less shelfwear than the previous editions.
Roger Dean's work is a treasure and holds up well over the years. Even with the mature retouching of old work it's easy to appreciate the original versions.
Anyone fascinated by art and design and it's place in popular entertainment should make room for these volumes on their bookshelves while they can. These books show an exotic approach to popular and fine art that is rarely mastered with such elaborate and unique vision as Roger Dean has accomplished.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More From Roger and Martyn; Needs a Reprint!, October 23, 2001

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W. Langan "take403" (the end of the world to your town!) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magnetic Storm (Paperback)

The Dean brothers are 2 of the most innovative artists of the 20th century. Roger has designed many of Yes and Asia's album covers (Drama, Yesshows, Asia, and Alpha are all featured in this book!), designed tour posters and booklets for other major rock bands and contributed on the Album Cover Album books. His brother Martyn has designed many of Yes' stage sets (Topographic Oceans, Drama, and Relayer) and has acted as Yes' photographer both for album shots and on tour. Together and seperately, Roger and Martyn have also worked on animation, video games, architecture, and an invention of Martyn's which is called a retreat pod (sort of like a futuristic sleeping bag with the options of an entertainment center!). I'd like to see this gem back in print and see a 3rd volume where Roger and Martyn have left off since this was published.