jamie reid and barney bubbles

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.

Barney Bubbles

Colin Fulcher

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