The Wall Album Art Work

Pink Floyd has always been pioneers in turning an album cover in to art Thanks to the artistic visionary group hipgnosis. However, The Wall was the first album to use pink floyds debut to not be designed by them. This was partially due to waters falling out with one of hipgnosis' founding members, Storm thorgerson.

The album's cover art is one of Pink Floyd's most minimal – a white brick wall and no text. Waters had a falling out with Hipgnosis designer Storm Thorgerson a few years earlier when Thorgerson had included the cover of Animals in his book The Work of Hipgnosis: 'Walk Away René'. The Wall is therefore the first album cover of the band since The Piper at the Gates of Dawn not to be created by the design group.

Issues of the album included the lettering of the artist's name and album title by cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, either as a sticker on sleeve wrapping or printed onto the cover itself, in either black or red. Scarfe, who had previously created animations for the band's "In the Flesh" tour, also created the lp's inside sleeve art and labels for the vinyl records of the album, showing the eponymous wall in various stages of construction, accompanied by characters from the story. The drawings were translated into dolls for The Wall Tour, as well as into Scarfe's animated segments shown during the tour and the film based on the album. It is notable that the stadium drawn in the inner sleeve looks a lot like the Montreal Olympic Stadium where the album's concept happens to find its origin. It seems plausible that the artist was inspired by the stadium's appearance in 1977 and its inclined tower, which was completed only at a third of its projected (and present) height, reminiscent of the many "towers" pictured in the artist's stadium.