Mick Haggerty
Quick Facts
Biography
Mick Haggerty is an English graphic designer, illustrator, art director, video director and artist. Haggerty has received four Grammy Award nominations for Best Recording Package, and in 1980 was jointly awarded, with Mike Doud, the Grammy for Supertramp's Breakfast in America. He also received a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video (short form) in 1986 for The Daryl Hall and John Oates Video Collection.
Background
Born in England and educated in London at the Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art, he moved to Los Angeles in 1973. During the following decades he produced images for many artists. Starting in 1980 he directed many of the first music videos for artists. His editorial illustration includes covers for Time, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and New West Magazine. He was a founding partner in various design groups, Art Attack with John Kehe (1975), Neo Plastics with C.D.Taylor (1980) and Brains with Steve Samiof (1994). He served as Art Director at Virgin Records (1992) and Warner Music (2001). Haggerty was a member of the faculty of Otis Parsons School of Design from 1983–91. His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Notable album covers
- Electric Light Orchestra – The Night the Light Went On in Long Beach, 1974
- Electric Light Orchestra – Face the Music, (with John Kehe), 1975
- Pointer Sisters - Steppin', 1975 (1976 Grammy Award nominee)
- Hot Tuna - Yellow Fever, 1975
- Jerry Lee Lewis – Jerry Lee Lewis, 1979
- Supertramp – Breakfast in America, 1979 (1980 Grammy Award winner)
- Gamma – Gamma 2, 1980
- The Police – Ghost in the Machine 1981
- Jimi Hendrix – Kiss the Sky, 1982
- The Go-Go's – Vacation, 1982 (1983 Grammy Award nominee)
- David Bowie – Let's Dance, 1983
- David Bowie – Tonight, 1984
- Simple Minds – Alive and Kicking, 1985
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – The Pacific Age, 1986
- David Bowie – Never Let Me Down, 1987
- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), 1987
- Public Image Ltd – 9, 1989
- Jellyfish – Bellybutton cover spread, 1990
- Keith Richards – Main Offender, 1992
- Jellyfish – Spilt Milk, 1993
- Richard Thompson – Mirror Blue, 1994
- Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute, 2002 (2003 Grammy Award nominee)