Pink Floyd have launched their first album in more than 20 years with cover art designed by an 18-year-old Egyptian. Ahmed Emad Eldin, an 18-year-old Egyptian digital artist, designed The Endless River’s album cover art which shows a man punting across a river of clouds towards the bright glow of the sun. Ahmed’s cover art for Pink Floyd’s album has been featured prominently in cities across the globe, from London and New York to Paris, Sydney, Berlin and Milan. Iconic graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, who had designed album covers for Pink Floyd with a focus on surrealism to increase the band’s mystique, died in 2013, prompting the band to search for a new graphic artist. It was Aubrey Powell, Thorgerson’s former colleague in the Hipgnosis design studio, that discovered the young Egyptian. “When we saw Ahmed’s image it had an instant Floydian resonance. It’s enigmatic and open to interpretation, and is the cover that works so well for The Endless River,” said Powell. The young Egyptian was born in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) before moving to Cairo. According to The Independent, Ahmed began experimenting with digital art at the age of 13. “A creative agency…
