Richard Evans (designer)

Richard Evans (born 30 March 1945, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England) is a graphic designer, photographer and illustrator. He studied fashion and textile design at Nottingham School of Art 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 Petticoat (magazine) and Honey (magazine), 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 Elton John, George Harrison, The Osmonds, Roxy Music and guitarist Rory Gallagher.

He worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in the mid- to late-1970s at seminal design studio Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, designers of many classic rock album covers for Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney and Wings, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Bad Company, 10cc, Genesis, Black Sabbath and many others.

Richard Evans has produced album covers and designs for many artistes including The Doors, Public Image Limited, Pete Townshend, Nik Kershaw, Robert Plant, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Godley & Creme, Deep Purple, Roger Daltrey, World Party, Scorpions, King Sunny Adé, Bill Wyman, Louis Armstrong and Van Morrison, plus designs for a diverse range of musical genres. He is mostly known for his work for The Who, with whom he has worked since 1976, including the cover for Endless Wire (2006), their first studio album in 24 years and the design for The Who's fiftieth anniversary tour logo and album The Who Hits 50! (2015).

Richard Evans is the author of The Art of the Album Cover, published by Chartwell Books.[1]