A
hippie genius painter/designer; died in 1983, a
suicide. Much cool
British pop-culture design of the
80's owes a debt to him, or
was his. His
rock cred came from early work for Hawkwind, but his work for
Stiff Records - ads and covers in the
70's for
Elvis Costello (
Armed Forces, for example), The Rumour, Ian Dury (Bubbles did the Blockhead logo), and others defined the cool that got appropriated by damn near everybody not named
Peter Saville.