Pink Floyd Poster Included with Dark Side of the Moon Album

Poster illustrated by Aquirax Uno included in Pink Floyd's 8th studio LP Dark Side of the Moon. The band is known for their psychadelic, space age rock, and while I was unable to find any concrete information about the collaboration, its easy for me to see why the band would be drawn to Uno's aesthetics.

Aquirax Uno is the alias of artist Uno Akira 宇野亞喜良, a Japanese graphic artist known for his fantastical, psychadelic, often ero-guro (erotic-grotesque) prints and illustrations. He was born in 1934 in Nagoya, Japan. Influenced by his father, who ran an interior decoration business, he began drawing at a young age and studied under the painter Haru Miyawaki.

He popularized the terms イラストレーション "illustration" and イラストレーター"illustrator" in the lexicon of 1960s Japan, and  has created hundreds of works ranging from advertisments to album covers to theatre posters. He has also served as a curator, stage designer, and artistic director. He continues to be active as one of Japan's foremost illustrators and graphic designers at the age of 91 years old.