Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid born in England 1947, is a graphic designer and visual art activist. Jamie was educated at St John Ruskin Grammar School in Croydon.
Jamie is popularly known for being associated with the Anarchist and Situationist movements of Europe and specifically England of pre sixties.
The dictionary definition of an Anarchism is as followed: 'The political belief that there should be little or no formal or official organization to society but that people should work freely together'.
This was the belief that Jamie followed.
Reid was involved in the designing of the political magazine Suburban Press in the seventies. This began the development of his signature typography of clipped newspaper lettering in the form of  ransom notes (using an excessive number of fonts side by side).
A huge part of Jamie's fame is his connection to the 1970s Punk rock band 'Sex Pistols'. He produced several prints for album covers of theirs including, 'Never mind the bollocks' 'Here's the Sex Pistols' 'Anarchy in the UK' 'Pretty vacant' 'Holidays in the sun' and 'God save the Queen'. 'God save the Queen' was described from a writer in the newspaper of the time 'The Observer' as the 'single most iconic image of the punk era' due to the visual having a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II with a safety pin added through her nose and swastikas in her eyes. It was certainly something that had never been done before!