2. 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.
3. 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.
5. 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.
8. 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
9. 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’
