Nick Egan is a visual design artist, and director of music videos, commercials and film. He graduated from the Watford College of Art and Design with a DGA in 1976. While attending college, he created cover art for the singles “White Man In Hammersmith Palais” and “Tommy Gun” for The Clash

The Clash

The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...

 and t-shirt design for the single “Sheena is A Punk Rocker” for The Ramones. His first chart topping album cover was Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners are a British pop group with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. They are best known for their songs "Come On Eileen" and "Geno", both of which went No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart....

’ ‘Searching For The Young Soul Rebels’. He collaborated with former Sex Pistols manager and fashion entrepreneur Mr. Malcolm McLaren, for whom he designed the album cover for Bow Wow Wow

Bow Wow Wow

Bow Wow Wow were an English 1980s New Wave band created by Malcolm McLaren to promote his and business partner Vivienne Westwood's New Romantic fashion lines.The group's music is described as having an "African-derived drum sound".-History:...

’s ‘See Jungle’. His long time partnership with McLaren

Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls...

 McLaren led to the art direction of McLaren’s own inventive albums; Duck Rock

Duck Rock

Duck Rock is an album released by British impresario Malcolm McLaren In 1983. The album mixes up styles from South Africa, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and the US, including hip hop. The album proved to be highly influential in bringing hip hop to a wider audience in the UK...

 and ‘Fans’. Egan relocated from Britain to New York, where he created cover art for legendary artists like Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop. Egan also art directed books; John Lennon 'Listen To These Pictures' by Rock-n-Roll photographer Bob Gruen and Bob Dylan's 'Drawn Blank'.

Art direction in fashion

In the early 80’s during London’s thriving Piccadilly fashion scene, Egan designed much of the graphic material for Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...

’s ‘Worlds End’ clothing line and later art-directed her fashion shows in London and Paris. In New York he continued his exploration in fashion by designing the label for the first collection by Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 60 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997...

. The name of the collection was ‘Sketchbook’. In addition to art directing Jacob’s early fashion shows, Egan’s collaboration with Jacobs would continue through the designer’s meteoric rise in the fashion business. Additionally, the pair later collaborated on a Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 video “Sugar Kane”, which featured actress Chloe Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American film actress, fashion designer and former model. Sevigny gained reputation for her eclectic fashion sense and developed a broad career in the fashion industry in the mid 1990s, both for modeling and for her work at New York's Sassy magazine, which labeled her...

 in one of her first ever appearances in front of the camera. Egan is presently designing t-shirt prints for retailers Superfine Jeans and 2K Creative.

Video and film director

With the advent of MTV, Egan facilitated his artistic shift into film work through the direction of music videos, the first of which was Iggy Pop’s “Real Wild Child”. After a period of working with INXS on their multi-platinum ‘Kick’ and ‘X’ albums, he relocated to Los Angeles where in time he solidified his place as one of Hollywood’s premier music video directors earning among other distinctions, a nomination for an MTV Music Video Award (Soup Dragons, ‘Divine Thing’). He went on to direct close to one hundred music videos for many of the top names in the music industry including INXS, Oasis, Duran Duran, Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, Kylie Minogue, and Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....

. A May 1997 article in Promo Magazine referred to him as ‘his MTVness’. Egan moved into the commercial arena, directing TV spots for such brands as Coca Cola, Levi’s, Nike, Nintendo and Sony Play Station. Nick’s first feature length film was ‘Red Light Runners’ starring; Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Roy Schneider, and Crispin Glover. Filming was halted mid production.

Awards and accreditation

-Bow Wow Wow’s ‘See Jungle’ ranked #10 in ‘The 100 Best Album Covers’ (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1999).
-College reference book ‘Designing For Music’ (published by Spencer Drate, 1992) refers specifically to the work of Nick Egan.
-MTV Video Music Awards 1992 nomination for best alternative video: The Soup Dragons ‘Divine Thing’, 1992
-MTV Video Music Awards 1993 nomination for best cinematography: Duran Duran 'Ordinary World'

Select 45 rpm Single Cover Design

• Banarama, “Really Saying Something”
• Belinda Carlisle, “Do You Feel Like I Feel?”
• Belinda Carlisle, “Little Black Book”
• Belinda Carlisle, “Live Your Life Be Free”
• Bow Wow Wow "Chihuahua" b/w "Golly! Golly! Go Buddy!"
• Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy" b/w "King Kong"
• Bow Wow Wow "Prince of Darkness" b/w "Orang-outang"
• Bow Wow Wow, “See Jungle! (Jungle Boy)” b/w (I’m a) TV Savage”
• Culture Club, “Church Of The Poison Mind”
• Culture Club, “Miss Me Blind”
• Duran Duran, “Come Undone”
• Duran Duran, “Ordinary World”
• Duran Duran, “Too Much Information”
• INXS, “Bitter Tears”
• INXS, “By My Side”
• INXS, “Devil Inside”
• INXS, “Disappear”
• INXS, “Guns In The Sky”
• INXS, “New Sensation”
• INXS, “Mystify”
• INXS, “Need You Tonight”
• INXS, “Never Tear Us Apart”
• INXS, “Suicide Blonde”
• INXS, “The Loved One”
• Malcolm McLaren, “Fans”
• The Clash, “Tommy Gun”
• The Clash, “White Man In Hammersmith Palais”
• The Psychedelic Furs, “Heartbreak Beat”
• The Psychedelic Furs, “Pretty In Pink”

Select album cover design

• Appollo Smile, ‘Dune Buggy’
• Belinda Carlisle, ‘Live Your Life Be Free’
• Bob Dylan, ‘Empire Burlesque’
• Bob Dylan, ‘Biograph’
• Book Of Love, ‘Book Of Love’
• Book of Love, ‘Lullaby’
• Bow Wow Wow, ‘See Jungle! See Jungle!’
• Deee-Lite, ‘World Clique’
• Dexy's Midnight Runners, ‘Searching For The Young Soul Rebels’
• Duran Duran, ‘The Wedding Album’
• Faster Pussycat, ‘Wake Me When It's Over’
• Iggy Pop, ‘Blah Blah Blah’
• INXS, ‘Kick’
• INXS, ‘Live Baby Live’
• INXS, ‘X’
• Kylie Minogue, ‘Rhythm of Love’
  Rhythm of Love (Kylie Minogue album)
  Australian Tour Souvenir/The Gold Album# "Step Back in Time" – 7:55# "What Do I Have to Do" – 7:08# "Shocked" – 3:10Australian limited edition CD album repackaged with SHOCKED single...
  
  
• Malcolm McLaren, ‘Duck Rock’ (collaboration with Dondi White, illustration by Keith Haring)
• Malcolm McLaren, ‘Fans’
• Malcolm McLaren, ‘Swamp Thing’
• Marshall Crenshaw, ‘Mary Jean and 9 Others’
• Max Q, ‘Max Q’
• New York Dolls, ‘Red Patent Leather’
• Pride For Pain , Self Titled Ep
• Psychedelic Furs, ‘Midnight To Midnight’
• Ric Ocasek, ‘This Side Of Paradise’
• Simon F, ‘Gun’
• Tesla, ‘Mechanical Resonance’
• Tesla, ‘Psychotic Supper’
• The Cult, ‘Sonic Temple’
• The Doors, ‘Soundtrack To The Motion Picture 'The Doors'
• The Sex Pistols, ‘Filthy Lucre Live’
• Various Artists, ‘Soundtrack To The Motion Picture 'JFK'
• Wendy And Lisa, ‘Fruit At The Bottom’

Merchandise and branding design

• Belinda Carlisle, ‘Live Your Life Be Free’ (t shirts, posters)
• Bow Wow Wow, ‘See Jungle! See Jungle!’ (t shirt, poster)
• Culture Club (Logo)
  Kissing to Be Clever
  Kissing to Be Clever is the debut album by new wave soul band Culture Club, released in 1982.-Overview:The album was anchored by the international hit "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me". The album's first two singles were "White Boy" , and "I'm Afraid of Me"...
  
  
• Duran Duran, The Wedding Album (t shirts, posters)
• INXS, ‘X’ (t shirts, posters)
• INXS, ‘Kick’ (t shirts, posters, merchandising)
• Malcolm McLaren, ‘Duck Rock’ (t shirts, promotional posters)
• Malcolm McLaren, ‘Fans’ (t shirts, promotional posters)
• Psychedelic Furs, ‘Midnight To Midnight’ (t shirts, posters)
• The Clash, ‘Sort It Out Tour’ (Poster)
• The Clash, ‘Out On Parole’ (Poster)
• The Ramones, “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (T Shirt)
• Wendy And Lisa, ‘Fruit At The Bottom’ (t shirts, posters)

Select music videos

• Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know”
• Bananarama “Long Train Running”
• Bee Gees “Alone”
• Belinda Carlisle “Do You Feel Like I Feel”
  Belinda Carlisle discography
  The discography of Belinda Carlisle, an American Pop singer-songwriter, contains seven studio albums, three compilation albums, thirty-one singles and a number of other appearances....
  
  
• Belinda Carlisle “Little Black Book”
• Belinda Carlisle “Live Your Life, Be Free”
• Better Than Ezra “Desperately Wanting”
• Big Wreck “That Song”
• Bon Jovi “Dry County”
  Bon Jovi discography
  The discography of American hard rock band Bon Jovi consists of 11 studio albums, three compilation albums, one live album, one box set, thirteen video releases and over 50 singles. This list does not include solo material of Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and David Bryan.Bon Jovi's first commercial...
  
  
• Bon Jovi “I Believe”
• Candlebox “Cover Me”
• Candlebox “Far Behind”
• Candlebox “It’s Alright”
• Carole King “Anyone At All”
• Catherine Wheel “Judy Staring At The Sun”
  Catherine Wheel
  Catherine Wheel were a four-piece alternative rock band from Great Yarmouth, England. The band was active from 1990 to 2000, experiencing fluctuating levels of commercial success, and embarking on many lengthy tours.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles & Eddie “Jealousy”
• Cheap Trick “You’re All I Wanna Do”
• Deftones "Bored"
• Digable Planets “Nickel Bags”
• Duncan Sheik “Wishful Thinking”
• Duran Duran "All You Need Is Now"
• Duran Duran "Ordinary World"
• Duran Duran “Perfect Day”
• Duran Duran “White Lines”
• EMF “Children” (live)
• EMF “Unbelievable” (live)
• Flesh For Lulu “I Go Crazy”
• House Of Love “Shine On”
• Iggy Pop “Real Wild Child”
• INXS, "Don't Los Your Head"
  Don't Lose Your Head (INXS song)
  "Don't Lose Your Head" is the third single from the album Elegantly Wasted by INXS. Released in Europe and Japan at the end of 1997. No official release for this in USA...
  
  
• INXS “Searching”
• Ivan Neville “Not Just Another Girl”
• K.D. Lang “Anywhere But Here”
• Kon Kan “puss In boots”
• Kylie Minogue, “Step Back In Time”
  Kylie Minogue videography
  This is a comprehensive listing of official video releases by Kylie Minogue, an Australian pop music singer. Minogue has released 57 music videos and eighteen VHS and DVDs on PWL, Deconstruction Records and Parlophone.-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...
  
  
• Mick Jagger “Intro”
• Mick Jagger “Primitive Cool”
• Mötley Crüe “Hooligan’s Holiday”
• Oasis “Go Let It Out”
• Oasis “Live Forever”
  Live Forever
  "Live Forever" is a song by English rock band Oasis. Written by Noel Gallagher, the song was released as the third single from their debut album Definitely Maybe on 8 August 1994, just prior to that album's release....
  
  
• Oasis “Some Might Say”
• Oasis “Sunday Morning Call”
• Oasis “Supersonic”
• Oasis “Where Did It All Go Wrong”
• Oasis “Who Feels Love”
• PM Dawn “Sometimes I Miss You So Much”
• Pride For Pain "Tomato" "Puzzle" "Romantic"
• Rancid “Bloodclot”
  Rancid discography
  The discography of Rancid, a Northern California-based punk rock band. The band has released seven studio albums, two extended plays, two compilations and seventeen singles...
  
  
• Rod Stewart “I Can’t Deny It”
• Silverchair “Abuse Me”
  Silverchair discography
  The discography of Silverchair, an Australian alternative rock band, consists of five studio albums, twenty-two singles, two live albums, two best of albums, and four video releases....
  
  
• Sonic Youth "Sugar Kane"
  Sugar Kane
  "Sugar Kane" was the third single from Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty. It was released in 1993 on DGC.-Track listing:US version:# "Sugar Kane" - 5:03# "The Destroyed Room" - 3:25# "Purr" - 4:22...
  
  
• Sonic Youth “Youth Against Fascism”
  Youth Against Fascism
  "Youth Against Fascism" was the second single from Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty. It was released in 1992 on DGC.-Track listing:# "Youth Against Fascism" # "The Destroyed Room"# "Purr"...
  
  
• Soup Dragons “Divine Thing”
• Soup Dragons “One Way Street”
• Soup Dragons “Pleasure”
• Terence Trent Darby “Vibrator”
• The Quireboys “Hey You”
• Tony, Tony, Tone “Anniversary”
• UB40 “Tell Me Is It True”
• Uncle Kracker “Follow Me”
  Uncle Kracker
  Matthew Shafer is an American rock musician known as Uncle Kracker. His singles include "Follow Me", "Smile", and "Drift Away". His music was more rap rock-based at the start of his career before turning in a more rock and Top 40 style music direction on later releases.-Biography:Shafer was born...
  
  
• Wendy & Lisa “Are You My Baby”
• Wendy & Lisa “Honeymoon Express”
• Wendy & Lisa “Lolly Lolly”
• Whodini “Freaks”
• Yazz and Aswad “How Long”