Jamie Reid, whose searing cowl artwork and different graphics for the Intercourse Pistols, that includes ransom-note lettering and defaced photos of the queen, outraged well mannered British society almost as a lot because the seminal punk band’s anarchic anthems and obscenity-laced tirades, died on Tuesday at his dwelling in Liverpool. He was 76.

His loss of life was confirmed by John Marchant, a London gallerist who represents Mr. Reid’s archive. No trigger was given.

Mr. Reid was a product of the unconventional left of the Sixties, and his fiery political attitudes matched his incendiary artwork over a profession that spanned greater than six many years. He was ultimately embraced by the artwork institution: His work is included within the collections of the Museum of Trendy Artwork in New York and the Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

However in Nineteen Seventies Britain, a extra correct period when bowler hats had been nonetheless seen on the streets of London, his agitprop graphics on behalf of a band of musical Visigoths, doing their half to ransack the rock-industrial advanced and the British class system, had been sufficient to trigger scandal.

His sleeve for the only “God Save the Queen,” launched in 1977 as Britons had been getting ready to have a good time the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, featured a stately picture of the queen along with her eyes and mouth torn away, changed by the band’s title and the tune’s title. It hit with all of the subtlety of a automobile bomb.

“It was very surprising,” Jon Savage, the British music author who collaborated with Mr. Reid on the 1987 ebook “Up They Rise: The Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid,” mentioned in a telephone interview. “The printers refused to print the sleeve at first.”

Mr. Reid used the identical picture, superimposed over the British flag, for a promotional poster for the only. It turned a permanent brand for the band, a punk equal of the Rolling Stones’ omnipresent tongue graphic.

With the Pistols, there was additionally a heavy sprint of pranksterism. “Lots of people utterly misconstrue what we had been attempting to do with the Intercourse Pistols,” Mr. Reid mentioned in a 2018 interview with One other Man, a British model and tradition journal. He famous that he and Malcolm McLaren, the band’s supervisor, “had been very a lot into the politics, however I used to be bringing a variety of humor into it, too.”

Discordant and disruptive, just like the band itself, Mr. Reid’s indelible work turned as central to the Intercourse Pistols’ ferocious picture because the rag-doll shirts, bondage pants and security pins worn by John Lydon, the lead singer higher generally known as Johnny Rotten, courtesy of the iconoclastic designer Vivienne Westwood, or the sleeveless swastika T-shirt worn by the bassist Sid Vicious.

Sensible advertising and marketing within the guise of anti-marketing, Mr. Reid’s designs bought the essence of punk to a baffled public.

“Punk was a really advanced package deal, and it was troublesome for lots of people to get ahold of by the music alone, notably with a bunch as confrontational because the Intercourse Pistols,” Mr. Savage mentioned. “Visuals had been one other means in.”

And a crucial one, given the efforts to stamp out the band’s music (its debut single, “Anarchy within the U.Okay,” managed to rise to No. 38 on the British charts, regardless of being banned from the airwaves and pulled by its document firm). “You couldn’t hear the group on the radio or see them on the tv,” Mr. Savage mentioned. “The visuals had been like a samizdat, forbidden data.”

Mr. Reid’s covers and paintings additionally did their basic job: promoting information. “Curiously,” he mentioned in a 1998 interview with Index journal, “with the 2 or 3 times that the paintings was truly banned and the information went on sale in white baggage, they didn’t promote.”

Jamie MacGregor Reid was born on Jan. 16, 1947, in London, considered one of two sons of Jack and Nora (Gardner) Reid, and grew up in Croydon, south of London. His father was town editor of The Each day Sketch, a tabloid newspaper.

Jaime’s dad and mom had been dedicated socialists, and at 7 he was already marching for nuclear disarmament and different causes. He additionally developed a lifelong curiosity in mysticism, due to a great-uncle who based the Historic Druid Order.

“It’s a part of who I’m,” he informed One other Man, referring to his druid heritage. “It’s so vital that we reconnect with the planet. We want religious as a lot as political change on this nation.”

Artistically gifted, Mr. Reid ultimately enrolled at Wimbledon Faculty of Artwork (now Wimbledon Faculty of Arts) and later transferred to Croydon Faculty of Artwork, the place he discovered himself at sit-ins with Mr. McLaren. Each had been closely influenced by the Situationist Worldwide, an anticapitalist aesthetic motion in postwar Europe that blended surrealism with Marxism and trafficked in mottos like “We is not going to lead; we are going to solely detonate.”

After school, he helped discovered a fierce low-budget political journal known as Suburban Press in Croydon. It was there that he first developed his ransom-note model.

“When it comes to graphic design, I in all probability discovered extra from the printing press than I did in artwork college,” Mr. Reid informed Index. “You begin growing an appreciation for what truly appears to be like good out of sheer necessity, from having no cash.”

Across the similar time, Mr. McLaren was seeding a punk revolution in London, operating, with Ms. Westwood, a storied boutique on King’s Highway below a sequence of impish names, together with Intercourse, which bought fetish put on and clothes impressed by Britain’s Teddy Boy craze of the Fifties.

By the center of the last decade Mr. Reid was residing within the Scottish Hebrides, serving to buddies arrange a small farm, when a telegram arrived from Mr. McLaren: “Come down, we’ve bought this venture in London we would like you to work on.”

“I used to be residing in the course of mountains and lochs and, immediately — increase — I began working with the Pistols,” Mr. Reid informed Index.

The Intercourse Pistols imploded in 1978 after a quick and chaotic United States tour, capping their last present in San Francisco with one last sneer from Mr. Lydon: “Ever get the sensation you’ve been cheated?”

Mr. Reid carried the torch over the following years, lending his energies to assist the dissident Russian punk band Pussy Riot, the Occupy motion and Extinction Insurrection, an environmental group recognized for its nonviolent civil disobedience.

He additionally produced paintings for brand new generations of subversive bands, together with the KLF, an avant-garde electronica group, and Afro Celt Sound System.

Mr. Reid is survived by his spouse, Maria Hughes; a daughter, Rowan MacGregor Reid; and a granddaughter.

Although he thought of himself an anarchist, Mr. Reid was additionally a realist who understood the inexorable creep of commercialism into radical tradition. In 2015, Virgin Cash — the financial institution backed by Richard Branson, who based Virgin Information, one of many Intercourse Pistols’ labels — launched a line of Intercourse Pistols bank cards that includes Mr. Reid’s well-known cowl artwork. He expressed “full disgust” for the playing cards, however he had no energy to cease then.

“Radical concepts will all the time get appropriated by the mainstream,” Mr. Reid informed One other Man. “Plenty of it’s to do with the truth that the institution and the folks in authority truly lack the flexibility to be inventive. They rob every little thing they’ll.”

“That’s why,” he added, “you need to maintain shifting on to new issues.”