Tommy Steele

Tommy Steele was educated at Art Center College of Design in advertising design. In the last half of the 1980’s Steele owned his own design firm and specialized in entertainment packaging, graphics, corporate identity, illustration, and book design. His works include covers for Tom Petty, Neil Young and Steve Miller. He has served as creative director at Capitol/Virgin Records. As head of EMI’s in-house team, Steele spearheaded creative campaigns for artists like Radiohead, Tina Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Seger, The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles and Capitol’s 50th Anniversary book and CD box set. He has six Grammy nominations for art direction. Steele’s books include 1984’s The Hawaiian Shirt, 1986’s Bowl-O-Rama, 1987’s Close Cover Before Striking, 1989’s Lick’em, Stick’em. He is currently working on a book about the history of clowns in the 20th century.