Creative Review

News | July 22, 2010 | 1 Comment




Creative Review have posted a piece on the Stüssy x Greensleeves x Al Fingers project on their blog, including an excerpt from my interview with Greensleeves’ long-time designer, Tony McDermott.

It’s funny, looking at the Greensleeves book now, you’d have no idea what a mission it was to find those 100 album covers to get them photographed. Greensleeves no longer have any of their original LPs in their archive (CDs only), so I had to track them all down from weird and wonderful places. It was a massive mission! Thanks to all the collectors who helped out.

For anyone unfamiliar with Tony McDermott’s work, here is his classic Scientist series, released on Greensleeves between 1980 and 1982. A cricket-themed cover was next in the pipeline after Pac-Man but the series came to an end and it never happened. Apparently Scientist was unhappy because it looked like he had been eaten by Pac-Man for his final Greensleeves release, although at the time it wasn’t known that this would be the last album in the series, with McDermott’s comic strip on the back cover leaving the story “to be continued…” Personally I think Scientist should be honoured to have one of the dopest album cover series of all time!

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One Response to “Creative Review”

  1. Rhek on July 23rd, 2010 9:47 am

    I was wondering about where you got all the covers from – the book turned out great!

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