http://www.rogerdean.com/ Our Latest News en http://www.rogerdean.com/fileadmin/templates/zwire/images/icons/feed.jpg http://www.rogerdean.com/ 70 70 Our Latest News TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 May 2010 15:29:00 +0100 http://www.rogerdean.com/news/news-article/archive/2010/05//article/roger-dean-on-the-radio-15.html Live broadcast Thursday 24th May 2010, on Resonance 104.5fm between 15:00 and 16:00 http://resonancefm.com The conversation will last an hour and cover his work and life from early days to present time. The format is conversational and informal. It will be broken up by 5/6 pieces of music. 
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]]> The Store Wed, 19 May 2010 15:20:00 +0100 http://www.rogerdean.com/news/news-article/archive/2010/02//article/interview-11.html Interview between Roger Dean and Goran Akeson. www.dealimmuseum.org) G.A. "How many paintings all together in this exhibition?" R.D. "I have no  idea; including paintings, watercolour sketches and pencil drawings, about a hundred pieces. We're changing our minds all the time. They are very interested in my early work." G.A. "Other than the Korean exhibition, what else is going on at the moment?" R.D. "The exhibitor in Korea is also arranging for this exhibition to go to Japan as well. The Japanese website is about to be launched, which I am looking forward to. The main thing that I'm doing at the moment is finishing a painting for Asia's new album 'Omega'. That's the one on the canvas behind me and that has developed over time through conversations with the band.I've also just finished a painting for Richard Everett who's band, 'King Biscuit' has a new album called 'Selling my Soul'. It's a very large watercolour in German Expressionist style. So that was an interesting change of direction for me." G.A. "What's the colour range in this watercolour?" R.D. "Essentially, greeny, purpley, sepia. Very muted colours with more definite areas of black and fiery orange." G.A. "It's very atmospheric". R.D. "It's meant to be, I made five or six small preparatory watercolour sketches, just playing about with ideas until I arrived at the one that felt right. Another painting i'm working on is for 'Universal'. Universal is a record company based in Sweden and they are about to bring out a 'Prog.Rock' series. They have also asked me to create a simple piece of animation based on the cover painting for a TV ad. so that's a 40sec.animation as well as the album cover, I think it's going to be a boxed set." G.A. "You have created an animated advertisment before haven't you? Wasn't there a Sony ad?" R.D. "It was sometime in the early eighties. The painting it was based on was called, 'Floating Water' there was a floating lake and an Ornithopter and robotic bird flew around it, I think we were advertising blank tapes". G.A. "Do you have any architectural projects that you are busy with at the moment?" R.D. " There are costings being calculated for 25 houses in the Lake District. This will be a small project but more manageable and with more scope to be creative about landscaping and finishing." G.A. "A very busy time then?" R.D. "Yes".
]]> News and Events Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:39:00 +0000 http://www.rogerdean.com/news/news-article/archive/2009/12//article/architectural-designs-8.html Currently on the drawing board for two eco villages. News and Events Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://www.rogerdean.com/news/news-article/archive/2009/11//article/missing-9.html Fibreglass moulds "borrowed" from a field near Kidderminster.
On the subject of borrowing, has anyone seen the ads for a film just about to be launched called "Avatar"? Is it my imagination or is there more than a passing resemblance to the work of a well known artist who’s work is featured on this website?
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The reproduction of the mini gatefolds is the best that Roger has seen of the Yes albums. He did not have the opportunity of reworking them from scratch as he did with the Repertoire releases where his brother Martyn rescanned everything and on several occasions re-photographed the original artwork, they did however achieve one notable success and that was with the packaging of Yessongs.

When he designed this the Yessongs album in 1973 he worked out a method of folding paper that would allow a gatefold of multiple pages to open like a book and for this he took out a joint patent with the then printers Tinsly Robor . The resulting package was, as far as he knows, only produced in the UK and then only for a short time.

Soon after the album's release there was a worldwide shortage of paper that seriously curtailed the number of gatefolds that were produced years before CDs came on the scene. The Victoria and Alpert Museum, in London acquired samples of it for the Print and Drawings department for their permanent collection, this was alongside the drawings and paintings for the original Yes logos, a dozen or so other of Roger's album covers and record labels.

Over the years he has tried to get the package manufactured properly, Atlantic's in house printers had said it was too complicated! It was doubly frustrating when Atlantics Japanese company East West Japan made the first replica gatefolds they copied the US zig-zag version which he felt not only looked unattractive but had the pictures in the wrong order. Finally after 36 years a correct version not only printed beautifully but also opening like a book, as it should.

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