22Nov
I first met Malcolm (Mx) at Phaidon Press - must have been c1992 - and we got on brilliantly - I discovered a like-minded fellow traveller - he admired April Greiman and Wolfgang Weingart, and so did I. He was also a fan of David Carson, of Kraftwerk and Brian Eno and so I was guided into a new realm of knowledge and taste - a deeper understanding and appreciation of typography and graphic-design, and a wider knowledge of Mancunian culture, especially after meeting Malcolm's mate Tony Wilson of Factory Records and his graphics maestro Philip Saville...
At that time - early 1990s - Mx had a studio Assorted Images upstairs in an old warehouse off Curtain Road in Shoreditch, under which the racing driver Damian Hill had a working garage. They employed several other designers, and Malcolm was in partnership with Alasdair Scott - a film-director and new media expert. So Assorted Images was an early powerhouse of new media design - one of the earliest projects I was aware of was the task they had from the BBC - making an MPEG3 of the BBC-Lou Reed video Perfect Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWQLLK7EupE
These books by me and me and Richard Oliver were all designed by Malcolm Garrett 1993-1998
Comments