One of my favourite graphic designers is Englishman Mick Haggerty. In a decade when no one feels much like dancing, this image comes from a decade when we all ‘...put on our red shoes and danced the blues...’ to the beat of an upwardly mobile society, and David Bowie’s album ‘ Lets Dance ’.
Over the last 40 years, he has designed countless album covers for artists such as David Bowie, ELO, The Go-Go's, PIL, The Police, Simple Minds, and The Rolling Stones.
Haggerty's work always reflects the note of current pop culture but it seldom looks dated. Grammy Awards – In 1979, Mr. Haggerty won the award for Best Album Package (along with the late Mike Doud) as the art director for Supertramp’s Breakfast in America.
Other well-known artists/covers he’s created include:
David Bowie – Never Let Me Down and Tonight
The Police – Ghost In The Machine
ELO – Face the Music
Plus works for OMD, Disturbed, PiL, King Crimson, Richard Thompson, Roxy Music, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Lee Lewis, Keith Richards, Aerosmith, Sammy Hagar, Roy Orbison, Boz Scaggs, the Violent Femmes and, recently, Josh Groban and Michael Buble’
He is a British Great.
May 07, 2012 at 11:33 AM
This long overdue post respects the life, person and work of the great Ronald Searle.
In a time when the word ‘ Hero ’ is used to describe anyone at the drop of a hat, Ronald Searle can truly be thought of as a Hero. A career which started at age 15, the father of the St Trinians girls, prisoner in a Japanese war camp in 1942 and commissioned by Life magazine in 1961 to draw and record the war crime trial
of Adolf Eichmann.
The posted image is an unusual choice, a light and fluffy sketch from a book that was first published in 1994, [ Marquis de Sade meets Goody Two - Shoes ] The picture title ' Mr Sherman meets Mr Ford '
His life was unbelievable in every context. I could not recount it and do it justice here. Enough to say that he is a Hero of mine.
Ronald Searle passed away aged 91, 30th December 2011
April 10, 2012 at 22:46 PM
Arthur Ferrier's produced a number of strip cartoons including "Spotlight on Sally" for the News of the World and "Eve" for the Daily Sketch. After many years of drawing pin-ups, advertising and a great many cartoons, Ferrier died in 1973.
This post was a clipping I found in the early 1970's and was taken from a News of the World copy, circa 1945. It was part of a collection of items, ' Spick and Span ' amongt them.
Ferrier stopped working for the News of the World in 1959, but continued to do commercial and advertising work. “He was a tireless and enthusiastic party-goer and party-giver”, noted a friend: “He entertained in a large room decorated with his portraits of beautiful women. There would be good food and good wine - and a massive tally of theatrical talent to entertain the happy company”.
February 12, 2012 at 13:18 PM
