Richard Evans (born 30 March 1945, Wilmslow,

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, England) is a

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, art director and

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. He studied fashion and textile design at

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and graphic design and illustration at Leicester College of Art. On leaving art school in 1968, he began what was to be a brief career as a fashion illustrator, mainly for teen magazines

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and

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, published by Fleetway Publications. In 1971 he formed fashion footwear company Daisy Roots Shoes with a showroom in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, London and a retail outlet in Harrods Way In boutique, designing and producing high fashion footwear for the hip rock generation featuring stacked heel and platform shoes and boots in brightly coloured leathers and exotic reptile skin. His footwear was favoured by the likes of

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, George Harrison,

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, Roxy Music, Redbone and Irish blues guitarist Rory Gallagher. He then worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in the mid- to late-1970s at seminal design studio

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with Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, designers of many classic rock album covers for

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, Paul McCartney and Wings,

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, Bad Company, 10cc,

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and many others. Richard Evans has produced album covers and designs for many artistes including

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, Public Image Limited,

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, Nik Kershaw,

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, Alison Krauss,

, Judas Priest,

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, Deep Purple, Roger Daltrey, World Party, Scorpions, King Sunny Adé,

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, Louis Armstrong and

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, plus designs for a diverse range of musical genres. He is mostly known for his design work for The Who, with whom he has worked since 1976, including the cover for '' Endless Wire'' (2006) and The Who's 50th anniversary tour logo and album The Who Hits 50! (2015). His design for '' The Who Sell Out'' Super Deluxe Edition box set won the Best CD Deluxe Set in the Making Vinyl Packaging Awards (2021). Richard Evans is the author of ''The Art of the Album Cover'', published by Chartwell Books.

References

External links

Richard Evans' official website

Richard Evans at Hypergallery
* ttp://designarchives.aiga.org/#/entries/Richard%20Evans/_/detail/relevance/asc/0/7/7412/the-who-live-at-leeds/1s AIGA Design Archives* ttp://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/appears/0,,984286,00.html Artist Direct 1945 births Living people English designers English graphic designers Album-cover and concert-poster artists People from Wilmslow Alumni of Nottingham School of Art {{graphic-designer-stub