Jamie Reid is a British artist and anarchist who has done some amazing designs, some of his well known work was designing albums covers for the bristish punk band the Sex Pistols. His best known works include the Sex Pistols album never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and the singles "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save The Queen", "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun". His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransome note, came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK.Reid produced a series of screen prints in 1997, the twentieth anniversary of the birth of punk rock. Jamie Reid created the ransom-note look used with the Sex Pistols graphics while he was designing Suburban Press, a radical political magazine he ran for five years.
Loved and loathed, he visually epitomised the D.I.Y punk ethic with his own form of visual anarchy. Reid’s unique re-mixing of 1960’s imagery with 1970’s Punk ethic creates an unsurpassed anarchistic feel. The Swastika Eyeballs image was first submitted to A&M for the cover of the Sex Pistol’s God Save the Queen 7 & subsequently banned. Apart from a poster that was issued in Spain, this is the first publication of one of Reid’s most iconoclastic images. I am a fan of his work as I feel that his designs has preserved the views of anarchists in the 70’s and through his artwork and music by the Sex Pistols, they have become the “poster boys” Britain and really promoted the subculture of Punk to world.
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
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