The fact that we were attending an art show in Shoreditch should have prepared us for the rich and varied sight upon entering this retrospective of Storm Thorgerson’s life’s work... and I'm refering to the hairstyles...! The Idea Generation Gallery’s “Right but Wrong” exhibition could so easily have been the expression that most readily described the extraordinary shapes and styles that the wan young men – many of whom had most likely not been born when Storm’s output had been at its most prolific – had teased their hair into.

The first thing to say about the show is that it appears to be broadly representative of the output of one of the most influential and creative forces in commercial graphics over the last 40 years or so. Needless to say, we were most drawn to the Pink Floyd covers that adorned the majority of the wall space available, but album artwork from Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Genesis and 10cc sat comfortably amongst Storm’s more contemporary output.

Perhaps the fact that so much of this work is so familiar to so many meant that the sizeable portion of floor space that is given over to “Dark Side of the Moon” artwork held some of the most interesting works on show. Storm seems to have had a lot of fun here; creating a number of pieces that irreverently play with the prism motif over and over, each time maintaining the proportion and space that have made this particular piece of graphic design one of the most iconic album covers of all.

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