English Graphic Designers: Quentin Crisp, Edward Preston Young, Dave McKean, Kyle Perry, Neville Brody, Peter Saville, Jim Connolly

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Quentin Crisp, Edward Preston Young, Dave McKean, Kyle Perry, Neville Brody, Peter Saville, Jim Connolly, Tom Eckersley, Storm Thorgerson, Keith Roberts, Charles Robert Ashbee, Raymond Hawkey, Jonathan Barnbrook, Simon Henwood, Nick Bax, Anthony FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster, Abram Games, James Hilton, Jamie Reid, Malcolm Garrett, Roger Burrows, Jon Hicks, Margaret Calkin James, Brian Cannon, Colin Banks, Dock, David Storey, Vaughan Oliver, Paul Barnes, Jon Wozencroft, Trevor Johnson, Lee Binding, George Hardie, Anthony Froshaug, Kate Moross, Bill Ward, Edward Wright, Thomas Robert Way, Natasha Law, Frank Newbould, Marcus McCallion, Richard Evans, John Yates, Aubrey Powell, Christopher Sandford, Mark Farrow. Excerpt: Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 25 December 1908) - 21 November 1999)), was an English writer and raconteur. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant. Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt (1871-1931) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt (nee Phillips) (1873-1960); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his third decade after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks. By his own account, Crisp was effeminate in behaviour from an early age and found himself the object of teasing at Kingswood Preparatory School in Epsom, from where he won a scholarship to Denstone College, Uttoxeter, in 1922. After leaving school in 1926, Crisp studied journalism at King's College London, but failed to graduate in 1928, going on to take art classes at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Around this time, Crisp began visiting the cafes of Soho - his favourite being The Black Cat in Old Co...