Trevor Key Archive
Date range: 1960’s – 1990’s
Medium: Photography, archive
Number of items: c.1500
Trevor Key was a photographer and graphic designer. He is best known for his work in the music industry though his work covered areas of fashion, industrial design, interior design, magazine layout and commercial advertising.
As part of the design team Cooke Key with designer and photographer Brian Cooke he designed the original Virgin Records logo and numerous album sleeves for the label.
During this period his best-known work is the sleeve for Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’. He also designed and photographed the sleeves for many more Mike Oldfield albums.
In the late 1970’s he worked with Jamie Reid on various works for the Sex Pistols including the sleeve for the album ‘Some Product’ and notable punk act X-Ray Spex, designing the sleeve for their debut album ‘Germ Free Adolescents’.
During the 1980’s he worked with the graphic designer Peter Saville, composing sleeves for OMD, Pauline Murray and The Invisible Girls, Peter Gabriel and New Order.
He also worked extensively in the fashion industry – for Marie Claire and again with Peter Saville on projects for Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto.
The archive contains materials from across his career from the late 1960’s through to his death in 1996.
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Cataloguing of the collection is in process. Any current requests to view materials from this archive should be directed to the curator via the Special Collections reading rooms.
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