jon
I wasn’t an extremely close friend of Jon Clee but when you live in a city as small as Cardiff you gradually get to know people who move in the same circles, or share similar interests or passions. If you’ve ever been to The Green Man festival, you sort of know of Jon, indirectly; it’s his designs that adorn their posters and flyers - bearded druids caught mid-transmogrification, stag antlers bursting from their heads, or strange, symmetrical collages that juxtapose rolling meadows and crashing waterfalls with teams of smock-clad scientists toiling away on radiophonic sound machines.
He made this great flyer for the show Plan B helped to promote with Cardiff’s Forecast last year.
Jon was a talented and extremely prolific artist and designer - a staggering proportion of the records, CDs, posters and flyers scattered through the city were decorated with his designs. In many ways it’s hard to think of the city’s independent music scene divorced from his telltale visual stamp. Jon also loved music for music’s sake: The Beach Boys and the Stones, but also The Make-Up, and Circle, and Titan, and plenty of obscure psychedelic things on vinyl with great names and amazing sleeves.
Jon was hit by a car on Saturday night on his way home. He hurt his head really badly and yesterday, he died. Cardiff is a smaller place for his passing. Rest in peace, Jon.
Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007by Louis Pattison
sorry to hear that, louis.
i fucking hate car culture. a country this size shd pedestrianize all city centres and make sure they’re well-served by public transport.
Posted by kicking_k on May 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 am