Arcana: Books on the Arts monthly pick for February is MXWX, the new release by venerable Los Angeles creative treasure Mick Haggerty!
MXWX — Mick’s Works — is a more or less comprehensive compendium of the various visual works imagined and fabricated by Mick Haggerty over the past half century. Upon moving to Los Angeles from London in 1973, Haggerty quickly established himself as a go-to record industry designer, illustrator, art director, and later music video director. He has won a Grammy for the visual packaging for Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” along with designing iconic covers for David Bowie, The Police, Electric Light Orchestra, The Go-Go’s, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Jimi Hendrix, Nazareth, Public Image Ltd., Keith Richards, and many, many more. His editorial illustration includes covers for Time, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and New West Magazine.
This beautifully illustrated tome additionally features contributions by Gary Panter and Steven Heller along with a stunning archive of Mick’s personal work — much of which is reproduced here for the very first time. Produced in an edition limited to one hundred and fifty hand-numbered copies, this is sure to sell out quickly.
