Communication Design Presentation

1. Jamie Reid
1970s British Punk

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.

4. Singles

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.

7. Barney Bubbles

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’

10. Ian Dury and the Blockheads

11. The Damned

12. Elvis Costello