Malcolm Garrett

Malcolm Garrett (born 1956) is a British graphic designer, who has worked for music artists such as Magazine, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel.{|summary="Contents" class="toc" id="toc"
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Malcolm Garrett was born in Northwich, England, and attended St Ambrose College. He studied typography at the University of Reading from 1974 through 1975 and graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic from 1975 through 1978. A fellow student of Garrett's at Manchester Polytechnic was Peter Saville, a graphic designer who would also design prominent record sleeves in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Garrett's first important professional work was design for the punk rock group Buzzcocks. From 1978 through 1994, Garrett was the design director of Assorted iMaGes. His work there included "graphic identity, exhibition design, television graphics, and literature design." His work for musical artists included Magazine, Duran Duran, Boy George, Simple Minds and Peter Gabriel. The sleeves that Garrett designed for Duran Duran (from 1981 until 1986) include their first four albums (Duran Duran, Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger (together with Keith Breeden) and Arena) and their associated singles such as Planet Earth, Is There Something I Should Know? and The Reflex.

In the early 1990s Garrett was increasingly attracted to digital technology and in 1994 Garrett teamed with Alasdair Scott to form AMX digital (later called AMX studios), an interactive media production company. Garrett left AMX when that company merged with Zinc to form Arnold Interactive in 2001. He then worked at I-mmersion in Toronto, Canada art directing interactive cinema, but returned to London in 2005 where he is now Creative Director at AIG (Applied Information Group). Not to be confused with the US-based database and email marketing solutions company of the same name located in Kenilworth, NJ.

Garrett is a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), and a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts in London. He is Creative Director of dynamo london, the online showcase for the digital and interactive media industry in London.


 * Fuse 95 biography
 * Typo Berlin 98 biography
 * Adobe profile of AMX Studios: Garrett and Alasdair Scott
 * 2007 interview with Garrett


 * "A Dearth of Typography" Baseline 13, edited by John Simmons, Chris Gray and Domenic Lippa, Esselte Letraset, 1990.
 * "The Book is Dead?" Graphics World, 1992.
 * With Alasdair Scott, "Multimedia, Who Needs It?" Baseline 18, edited by Mike Daines, Esselte Letraset, 1994.


 * Eye, Number 12, Volume 3, 1994, edited by Rick Poynor.