Jamie Reid, whose searing safe artwork and alternative graphics for the Intercourse Pistols, that includes ransom-note lettering and defaced photographs of the queen, outraged well mannered British community just about up to the seminal punk band’s anarchic anthems and obscenity-laced tirades, died on Tuesday at his house in Liverpool. He was once 76.

His loss of life was once showed via John Marchant, a London gallerist who represents Mr. Reid’s archive. Negative purpose was once given.

Mr. Reid was once a manufactured from the unconventional left of the Sixties, and his fiery political attitudes matched his incendiary artwork over a occupation that spanned greater than six a long time. He was once in the end embraced via the artwork status quo: His paintings is integrated within the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Unused York and the Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

However in Nineteen Seventies Britain, a extra correct moment when bowler hats have been nonetheless not hidden at the streets of London, his agitprop graphics by and for a band of musical Visigoths, doing their phase to ransack the rock-industrial complicated and the British elegance machine, have been enough quantity to purpose scandal.

His sleeve for the one “God Save the Queen,” exempt in 1977 as Britons have been getting ready to praise the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, featured a stately picture of the queen along with her optical and mouth torn away, changed via the band’s identify and the track’s identify. It collision with all of the subtlety of a automotive bomb.

“It was very shocking,” Jon Savage, the British tune scribbler who collaborated with Mr. Reid at the 1987 hold “Up They Rise: The Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid,” stated in a telephone interview. “The printers refused to print the sleeve at first.”

Mr. Reid old the similar symbol, superimposed over the British flag, for a promotional poster for the one. It turned into a long lasting brand for the band, a punk similar of the Rolling Stones’ omnipresent tongue colorful.

With the Pistols, there was once additionally a large sprint of pranksterism. “A lot of people completely misconstrue what we were trying to do with the Sex Pistols,” Mr. Reid stated in a 2018 interview with Every other Guy, a British taste and tradition album. He famous that he and Malcolm McLaren, the band’s supervisor, “were very much into the politics, but I was bringing a lot of humor into it, too.”

Discordant and disruptive, just like the band itself, Mr. Reid’s indelible paintings turned into as central to the Intercourse Pistols’ ferocious symbol because the rag-doll shirts, bondage pants and protection pins used via John Lydon, the supremacy singer higher referred to as Johnny Rotten, courtesy of the iconoclastic dressmaker Vivienne Westwood, or the sleeveless swastika T-shirt used via the bassist Sid Vicious.

Magnificent advertising within the guise of anti-marketing, Mr. Reid’s designs bought the essence of punk to a baffled society.

“Punk was a very complex package, and it was difficult for a lot of people to get ahold of by the music alone, particularly with a group as confrontational as the Sex Pistols,” Mr. Savage stated. “Visuals were another way in.”

And a essential one, given the efforts to stamp out the band’s tune (its debut unmarried, “Anarchy in the U.K,” controlled to rise to No. 38 at the British charts, in spite of being cancelled from the airwaves and pulled via its document corporate). “You couldn’t hear the group on the radio or see them on the television,” Mr. Savage stated. “The visuals were like a samizdat, forbidden knowledge.”

Mr. Reid’s covers and paintings additionally did their basic process: promoting information. “Interestingly,” he stated in a 1998 interview with Index album, “with the two or three times that the artwork was actually banned and the records went on sale in white bags, they didn’t sell.”

Jamie MacGregor Reid was once born on Jan. 16, 1947, in London, one among two sons of Jack and Nora (Gardner) Reid, and grew up in Croydon, south of London. His father was once the town essayist of The Day-to-day Cartoon, a tabloid newspaper.

Jaime’s oldsters have been dedicated socialists, and at 7 he was once already marching for nuclear disarmament and alternative reasons. He additionally evolved a lifelong passion in mysticism, due to a great-uncle who based the Ancient Druid Order.

“It’s part of who I am,” he informed Every other Guy, relating to his druid heritage. “It’s so important that we reconnect with the planet. We need spiritual as much as political change in this country.”

Artistically talented, Mr. Reid in the end enrolled at Wimbledon College of Artwork (now Wimbledon Faculty of Arts) and after transferred to Croydon Faculty of Artwork, the place he discovered himself at sit-ins with Mr. McLaren. Each have been closely influenced via the Situationist International, an anticapitalist aesthetic motion in postwar Europe that mixed surrealism with Marxism and trafficked in mottos like “We will not lead; we will only detonate.”

Upcoming school, he helped discovered a fierce low-budget political album known as Suburban Press in Croydon. It was once there that he first evolved his ransom-note taste.

“In terms of graphic design, I probably learned more from the printing press than I did in art school,” Mr. Reid informed Index. “You start developing an appreciation for what actually looks good out of sheer necessity, from having no money.”

Round the similar presen, Mr. McLaren was once seeding a punk revolution in London, operating, with Ms. Westwood, a storied boutique on King’s Street below a form of subtle names, together with Intercourse, which bought fetish put on and clothes impressed via Britain’s Teddy Boy craze of the Fifties.

By means of the center of the last decade Mr. Reid was once dwelling within the Scottish Hebrides, serving to buddies arrange a mini farm, when a telegram arrived from Mr. McLaren: “Come down, we’ve got this project in London we want you to work on.”

“I was living in the middle of mountains and lochs and, suddenly — boom — I started working with the Pistols,” Mr. Reid informed Index.

The Intercourse Pistols imploded in 1978 later a temporary and chaotic United States excursion, capping their final show in San Francisco with one ultimate sneer from Mr. Lydon: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”

Mr. Reid carried the torch over the following years, lending his energies to help the dissident Russian punk band Pussy Riot, the Occupy motion and Extinction Rebellion, an environmental staff identified for its nonviolent civil disobedience.

He additionally produced paintings for fresh generations of subversive bands, together with the KLF, an avant-garde electronica staff, and Afro Celt Pitch Gadget.

Mr. Reid is survived via his spouse, Maria Hughes; a daughter, Rowan MacGregor Reid; and a granddaughter.

Regardless that he thought to be himself an anarchist, Mr. Reid was once additionally a realist who understood the inexorable creep of commercialism into radical tradition. In 2015, Virgin Cash — the attic sponsored via Richard Branson, who based Virgin Information, probably the most Intercourse Pistols’ labels — exempt a order of Sex Pistols credit cards that includes Mr. Reid’s well-known safe artwork. He expressed “complete disgust” for the playing cards, however he had disagree energy to restrain upcoming.

“Radical ideas will always get appropriated by the mainstream,” Mr. Reid informed Every other Guy. “A lot of it is to do with the fact that the establishment and the people in authority actually lack the ability to be creative. They rob everything they can.”

“That’s why,” he added, “you have to keep moving on to new things.”