{"id":4779,"date":"2013-08-10T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T13:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2013-08-10T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T13:02:54","slug":"design-award-renamed-after-storm-thorgerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2013\/08\/design-award-renamed-after-storm-thorgerson\/","title":{"rendered":"Design award renamed after Storm Thorgerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prog Magazine<\/strong> has renamed its Grand Design Award after late <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> designer <strong>Storm Thorgerson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now known as the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award, it&#8217;ll be given to the designer of this year\u2019s best-packaged product. The nominees are 10cc, Hawkwind, the Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Peter Blegvard &amp; Andy Partridge, King Crimson, Family, Peter Gabriel, Arve Henriksen and Rush.<\/p>\n<p>Thorgerson, known for his work with Floyd, <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>, <strong>Genesis<\/strong>, <strong>Black Sabbath<\/strong> and others, died in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStorm\u2019s contribution to prog rock and beyond is incredible,&#8221; says Prog Magazine editor <strong>Jerry Ewing<\/strong>. &#8220;We felt it was only right to pay tribute to the man who has given so much to music through his art.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe re-titling of the Grand Design award is especially fitting, given that Storm won it at last year\u2019s ceremony for his continued work with Pink Floyd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p title=\"Prog Awards 2013\">The awards ceremony takes place at Kew Gardens, London, on September 3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progrockmag.com\/awards\">Register to vote<\/a> and become eligible to win prizes from all nominated artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prog Magazine has renamed its Grand Design Award after late Pink Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson. Now known as the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award, it&#8217;ll be given to the designer of this year\u2019s best-packaged product. The nominees are 10cc, Hawkwind, the Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Peter Blegvard &amp; Andy Partridge, King Crimson, Family, Peter Gabriel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personnel","category-storm-thorgerson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4781,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}