Jamie Reid 1970s British Punk
Jamie Reid1970s British Punk
Jamie Reid Born 1947 Known for designing much of the Sex Pistols album and singles
artwork. Jamie Reid’s Sex Pistols graphics determined the look of the whole
Punk movement. Studied at Croydon Art School where he met Malcolm McLaren.
Suburban Press Radical political magazine. Magazine publishing essays by French philosophers. Malcolm McLaren wanted a striking visual for the Sex Pistols album
and had seen some of the work Reid was producing for the Suburban Press, so he got in touch to see if he’d be interested in designing some singles covers and album sleeves.
Singles
Never Mind The Bollocks 1977 Only studio album released by the Sex
Pistols. Key part of the punk rock scene and
included their singles God Save The Queen and Anarchy in the UK.
“blackmail punk” look McLaren said “the colours were meant to
look like a packet of washing powder – no better, no worse, just disposable rubbish”
“it was never meant to look straight forward and correct. The polished look of Letraset type was never what we would have wanted. It needed to look hard”
Reid chose ugly typography and intentionally clashing colours, and could not have been stronger or better matched to the band.
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1942-1983 English graphic designer Studied at Twickenham College of Technology doing a senior display
course for a National Diploma in Design, where he learnt skills that he would later use in his record sleeve work.
Egyptology
R&B tonight was his first publicly recognised work
British Poster Design Award
‘the design is exactly suited to its subject matter, lively, up-to-date, youthful and vigorous’
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
The Damned
Elvis Costello