Client alphabet.

Approximately.

ANTHOLOGY, THE BEATLES, ALL THINGS MUST PASS

revisited, see below under

Harrison George...

and alphabetical or not I've had to start with both of these.

AGNETHA

, the willowy blond of Abba, an album sleeve with long-term friend and associate, the highly regarded

Gered Mankowitz. ANASTASIA

, event book for tour. For the magazine

ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS

, an identity. For

AVALON GUITARS

, an identity and brochure.

BEATLES, THE ANTHOLOGY.

Under Neil Aspinall's watch, seven years of production pretty well from the first draft visuals to the day of publication, and a million-plus copies sold. The album sleeve for the remastered and stripped-down Let It Be Naked. The Capitol Albums boxsets Volumes 1 and 2, and the First US Visit Dvd.

BEYONCE,

the event book for her 2008 tour.

BLAKE, PETER

(cf Clapton, Eric below).

BLINDS AND SHUTTERS,

the work of

Michael Cooper

for Genesis Books.

BOND, James Bond

The Legacy, a major anthology for Boxtree Macmillan, and that followed by The Art of Bond.

BROWN, Derren

, or see under

Derren Brown. CAT STEVENS

, The Very Best of plus the Definitive boxset but undertaken under the guidance of Yusuf Islam. See under

Yusuf. Eric CLAPTON,

various - albums sleeves such as the blues-revisiting From the Cradle, Pilgrim, the definitive box set Crossroads Two, 24 Nights (and the limited edition Genesis book with Peter Blake, also called 24 Nights), the dvd Nothing but the Blues, and the collaboration with BB King, Riding with The King.

Phil COLLINS

, various albums and many tourbooks, albums such Dance Into the Light (again with Gered Mankowitz, and one of personal favourites in the Wherefore Art? portfolio) Hits, Serious Hits - Live, Finally - The First Farewell Tour dvd set, Love Songs, and amongst the many tourbooks for himself that wonderful one with the drumkit made out of garbage on the front.

The Book of COUNTRY

, later renamed Will the Circle Be Unbroken? and see under that.

COWBOY

- How Hollywood invented the Wild West, a book for Reader’s Digest. The greatly acclaimed

The CRAFT of the LUTHIER

- the curation and organisation of the first ever exhibition of British guitar makers in conjunction with

David Linley

(see below for Linley).

CREAM

, Greatest Hits.

James DEAN

, The Definitive Dean for Palazzo Editions.

DERREN BROWN

, series of event books to accompany his theatre tours. Altogether a spookily psychic experience.

DESTINY'S CHILD

, the event book (Destiny's Child Weekly) for the final world tour.

Bob DYLAN

, The Ghost of Electricity 12x12 book series currently in production with Palazzo Editions, and the republished Robert Shelton biography No Direction Home.

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA

- remember Electric Light Orchestra? - the Secret Messages album cover;

Jeff Lynne

to emerge again a little further down the line.

ELTON JOHN:

where to begin, other than to thank him and John Reid for their years of support and enthusiasm - first efforts under Michael Ross's guiding hand, cowgumming down elements of Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player, thereafter beginning to fly solo with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and on to Blue Moves, Greatest Hits of Volume Two, A Single Man, Victim of Love, Jump Up, Leather Jackets, Live in Australia, Reg Strikes Back, Sleeping with the Past, To Be Continued in US and UK versions, The One, Rare Masters, The Very Best of Elton John, Made in England, The Captain and the Kid (coming in a late favourite) and numerous singles and compilations alongside - these together with tour books over the last thirty years too numerous to mention and to accompany some of the greatest touring moments, from Louder Than Concorde all the way through to The Red Piano, including the Face to Face tours with Billy Joel.

ENGLISH HERITAGE

- a surprise entry requiring us to assemble a packaging scheme for a range of foods and toiletries and I've never checked to see if they’re still there. The ginger biscuit package was nice. For

FENDER GUITARS

, event book for the fiftieth anniversary of the Strat and endless presentations for the proposed exhibition to follow.

The FIELD

, many years previous, redesigning Britain’s oldest weekly journal to transform it into a sexy monthly glossy with magazine luminary Dennis Hackett. A three-month project which might have taken half the time, had not the majority of regular staff disappeared on Thursdays to head off and shoot small furry animals of one species or another, or to get astride larger furry animals to do just the same but from a more sporting height. For

FISHER LANE FARM

, one of my favourite identities, the digital cow and you’ll notice of course how cows have made a recent and welcome reappearance. Fisher Lane Farm is the studio complex owned by

GENESIS

, who follow below.

FORMULA 1

The Anthology, lots of fast cars and one or two fast women but decidedly short on fairy folk such as we encountered with the delightful

Brian FROUD

; heady and slightly mad days spent on Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairies and Lady Cottington’s Fairy Album, and days spent taking the Fairy world very, very seriously at that, along with the delightful Strange Stains, and odd books on Goblins and Runes and other matters otherworldly etc. The first Lady Cottington book went on to sell in excess of a million copies worldwide and rightfully so, Froud’s richly inventive and surprisingly titillating world deserving of such.

Peter GABRIEL

, sadly not as much as one would have wished but at least got to do the Little Red Book for his 1984 Tour of China which absolutely wasn't in 1984. For

GENESIS

, albums such as Calling All Stations, Greatest Hits, Archives 1 and Archives 2 boxsets and numerous tourbooks. Followed in more recent years by Chapter and Verse, the extensive autobiographical book for Weidenfeld in which they come across as the truly delightful British chaps that they thankfully are, blessed in addition with extraordinary talent. And for the greatly missed Brian Roylance’s

GENESIS BOOKS

, at least a dozen or so major volumes in total including Michael Cooper’s seminal Blinds and Shutters, Eric Clapton and Peter Blake’s 24 Nights, Stuart (on the tragically short life of Stuart Sutcliffe), Astrid Kirchherr and Max Scheler’s Liverpool Days, Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voorman’s Hamburg Days, Gered Mankowitz’s Mason’s Yard to Primrose Hill and Eye Contact, Bob Gruen’s Sometime in New York City on John Lennon, Ravi Shankar’s autobiography Raga Mala, Bill Wyman on Chagall etc etc. From the sublime to the probably just as sublime

GIRLS ALOUD

, a series of tourbooks.

George HARRISON

, and a very privileged relationship fondly remembered. The albums Cloud Nine, The Very Best of Dark Horse and both the remastered and repackaged Concert for Bangladesh and All Things Must Pass, together with both Wilbury albums included below, under

Traveling Wilburys

. With Olivia Harrison to work alongside BMW to produce the special Mini 50th Anniversary tribute edition based on George’s original 1965 psychedelic Mini, featured momentarily in Magical Mystery Tour.

Jimi HENDRIX

, working alongside the legendary Alan Douglas to repackage all three original albums – Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland together with multi-million selling The Ultimate Jimi Hendrix compilation in a mission to bring the message to new generations. Repackaging of original sleeves received humiliating condemnation in the Music Week Design Awards, in itself not unbearable other than that I happened to be on the panel of judges at the very same time.

INK ICON

, with long time friend and associate

Gered Mankowitz

, initiated to produce limited edition silkscreens from his iconic photography of Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones. The beautiful (and very limited)

Portrait Edition Fender Stratocaster

was produced in association with both Fender Guitars and Experience Hendrix and involved painstaking positioning of silk-screened decals – like you’d stick on an Airfix Spitfire but ten times the size – around the complex contours of a high-end custom shop Strat.

IL DIVO

, a trio, I think so far, of high-end event books for the soignee semi-operatic quartet over various concert tours.

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL

– a short spell on the board of the renowned festival based in Bath, on a variety of remits, and thereafter a series of associated album sleeves and annual programmes.

Michael JACKSON

– poised to prepare the event book for the ill-fated This Is It shows at O2 only to be shoe-horned, sadly and suddenly, into a tribute book for his family’s Memorial Service in Los Angeles with a further book to follow and to accompany This Is It, the movie. An opportunity tragically missed.

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

, similarly uncompleted tourbook but thankfully with little tragedy other than loss of income. For

JJ CALE

, Anyway the Wind Blows, a definitive box set.

Elton JOHN

, see earlier.

KANYE WEST

, projectus interruptus and something of great promise which never saw the light of day, much along the lines of

The KILLERS

, a disastrously incompleted tour book which could have been something good, like so many, many other truncated projects cut off in their prime. What is it with these K-people? For

Mark KNOPFLER

, on the other hand, the renowned Golden Heart album sleeve and deluxe box set.

Alison KRAUSS

and

Robert PLANT

, see further along.

David LINLEY

(not Jackson Browne’s guitar player), a series of brochures for his bespoke funiture and accessories business, and the glamorous shops that deservedly emerged. In later years David and I collaborated on

The Craft of the Luthier

exhibition (mentioned above), curated and assembled by myself to bring the product of thirty or more of Britain’s most talented guitar makers under one roof for the first time.

Mr Nelson MANDELA

: In the privileged position of consultant Creative Director for

46664

, the campaign vehicle of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, an ongoing responsibility to assist in emerging strategies requiring identities and literature over the last few years, culminating in becoming a participant in the team that launched

Nelson Mandela Day

in New York in July 2009.

For

Bob MARLEY

, I know a Place, a Greatest Hits package.

MARTIN GUITAR MASTERPIECES

, a major book for Palazzo and Bulfinch illustrating the limited-edition output of the custom shop of one of the world’s most loved guitar brands. Certainly most loved by myself and a labour of devotion. For

Paul McCARTNEY

, a failed attempt at a Dvd compilation but thereafter redeemed by tour identity and merchandise for the US US tour of 2005.

MIKE and the MECHANICS

, sleeves for Greatest Hits compilation and for Silent Running. For

The MOODY BLUES

, the retrospective box set Time Traveller, and album sleeves for Hall of Fame and the Best of the Moody Blues along with numerous event books to accompany their continued touring schedule over the years.

Stirling MOSS

, the definitive authorised illustrated biography for Cassell. For the letter ‘

N

’ absolutely

Nothing

. What is it good for?

OASIS

, Out of the Blue, a limited edition book with renowned photographer Michael Spencer Jones. Am still convinced I did the

OZZY OSBOURNE

logo, but my memory’s probably about as good as his and if I didn’t do it I apologise unreservedly to him, and of course to whomsoever actually did. For the

PHILIP MORRIS ARTS FOUNDATION

, a major interactive package to highlight all their philanthropic activities.

Robert PLANT

and

Alison KRAUSS

– hard-backed event book for their Raising Sand tour following the hugely successful album.

The POLICE

, their 2008 reunion tour book.

PUNK

, greatly applauded and definitive book with Messrs Colegrave and Sullivan for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. For

QUARTO Group, Inc

, an identity to cover the group and many of their imprints, and a raft of Annual Reports.

QUEEN

, two early album sleeves best not remembered but selling in prodigious quantities. With

QI

, undoubtedly the most fun you can have in a design studio with your clothes on. With editor

John Lloyd

, creative direction and design on Volumes E, F, G and H (so far) of the QI Annual for Faber & Faber and we hope for all letters henceforth, even some letters as yet unthought of.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

, a tourbook. For

Cliff RICHARD

, (

Sir

Cliff, of course, and should probably file under

S

along with

Sir Elton

and

Sir Mick

) and any other titled clients I may have omitted.) A couple of album sleeves once again with Gered Mankowitz on the shutter and a further in later years with Brian Aris. For

Lionel RICHIE

, a Greatest Hits package.

RICHOUX

, an extensive rebranding campaign of the chain of coffee stores in an effort to reposition prior to the landing over here of over-sexed, overpriced Starbucks.

The Book of ROCK

, an A-Z of 500 rock photographs and profiles for close friend and associate Colin Webb, then of Pavilion Books.

The ROLLING STONES

: God bless them and all that sail in them. The authorised anthology A Life on the Road, celebrating 25 years on the road (passed 40 now) and published by Virgin; Charlie: ‘Twenty-five years in the Stones, five years work and twenty years hanging around...’ alongside lavish event books for their Bridges to Babylon, Forty Licks and A Bigger Bang tours, including the Uptown Book, a limited-edition, lenticular-covered hardback volume. For

Gerald SCARFE

– the almost complete works in the major autobiographical book Drawing Blood.

Neil SEDAKA

– an album sleeve.

SEX. SHOOTING SEX

, or The Definitive Guide to Undressing Beautiful Strangers by the tragic, irreplaceable

Bob Carlos Clarke

. By way of footnote, discovery in early years that the meaning of life was probably sex with Susannah York, whatever sex was. Then again with tour book for the sinuous

SHAKIRA

and also with two for the very lovely

SHANIA TWAIN

. And slightly less so with regard to the

SPICE GIRLS

for whom we prepared the event book for their get-back-together-for-as-short-a-time-as-possible tour in 2008. And oddly enough yet again with

SUGABABES

, further tour books.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL

, the event book for their Old Friends reunion tour.

TAKE THAT

, event book for the giant 2009 Circus reunion tour. During my newspaper and magazine period under Dennis Hackett’s avuncular gaze

TATLER

, that glossy of glossies, was redesigned and dragged into the 20th century before its safe delivery into the hands of Conde Nast where it still resides, and also, significantly, I prepared the first branding and layout drafts of Eddie Shah’s groundbreaking, union-aggravating newspaper

TODAY

, the first UK daily generated digitally.

THIN LIZZY

, the Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels box set compilation.

The TRAVELING WILBURYS

, both original album sleeves for the unique conjunction of the talents (and uncannily empathetic voices) of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, second time around, Volume 3, sadly without the late (by then) Roy Orbison. Also the rare but eminently desirable

Wilbury guitar

designed for Gretsch – one last seen hanging up at Hank’s in Denmark Street, London, but several years ago now.

TREES

, an entire autobiographical side road, this, but thankfully chronicled in other publications. My contribution undertaken on the other side of the fence, as guitar player. Both albums (The Garden of Jane Delawney and On the Shore) remastered and repackaged by Sony (and ourselves) in 2008 - the latter having been given the seal of hipness in 1970 by

Hipgnosis

sleeve, and again in 2007 by

Gnarls Barkley’s

sampling throughout the title track of their multi-million selling St Elsewhere album.

Unusually

nothing it seems beginning with ‘

U

’. Much like ‘N’, an opportunity for someone with a project beginning with ‘U’ to pick up the phone.

VIRGIN AIRLINES

, an extensive and very successful billboard campaign briefed in the silkscreen style we’d developed with Ink Icon for Jimi Hendrix and for which we had become recognised, and to support the launch of the airline into different cities around the globe.

The VOGUE Book of Blondes

, an Anthology in Blonde for Pavilion Books.

The Who

, Then and Now compilation package.

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?

, a definitive history of Country Music developed in conjunction with Colin Webb of Palazzo, The Country Music Hall of Fame, a host of Nashville writers and editors and a foreword by none finer than Willie Nelson.

Stevie WINWOOD

, the Finer Things box set.

WOODSTOCK

, again with Colin Webb, an official account of the context and the events themselves to celebrate the 40th anniversary with introduction by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. One of my guitar cases has on it an original Woodstock ‘3 Days of peace and music’ sticker; a point of circular interest. Event books for touring

X-FACTOR

shows, probably best not admitted to,

YUSUF’S

An Other Cup album sleeve heralding his first return to recording since the Cat Stevens days, and album sleeve of great merit (I still believe) for, and soundly rejected by,

ZUCCHERO

. Of inestimable worth when trying to be an A-Z completist. From

Abba

, kind of, to

Zucchero

, kind of, therefore.