A specialist in producing print artefacts from concept to delivery.

After more than twenty five years in the print industry, from freelancer to independent publisher, I have mastered the processes as an illustrator, photographer & creative director on many award winning & ground breaking publications.

Mickey Gibbons

Not a loose cannon, but a precise cannonball.

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Testimonials

"Mickey Gibbons is the genuine article. He approaches everything he does as if it really matters. And it does. There's so much crap out there in the world. Mickey hasn't produced any of it."
Michael Fordham
Editor/Writer
“Mickey is the most deranged and maverick art editor I've ever had”
John Doran
founder of The Quietus
The Pigeon became a newspaper I’d search out chiefly to see Mickey Gibbons’ fantastic design and layout. Gibbons’ esoteric and idiosyncratic design drew me and other readers in..."
Jim Carroll
Irish Times
“Mickey is a very naturally talented, uninfluenced designer”
Danny Miller
founder of Human After All
"Very daring, bold art direction"
Jeremy Leslie
MagCulture
“I still miss The Stool Pigeon, the art department, Mickey Gibbons, would lift old fonts from libraries and then design the pages in block print and colour. Often the text was barely legible.
Hazel Sheffield
Journalist
"What sets The Stool Pigeon apart in a world where you can read record reviews everywhere isn't so much the information in the paper as the way it's presented."
Michael Hann
music editor The Guardian
The Stool Pigeon takes non-conformism to extremes. Yet beyond its arch in-jokes and rude cartoons lies an intelligent piece of design and editorial. Some pages feel up-to-the-minute; others as if they’ve been put together with Letraset and Cow Gum. The Stool Pigeon wrings every drop out of the possibilities offered by its newsprint format."
Eye magazine
Issue 76

Teams I have played on...

Herringfleet Mill

Back when I was a kid before I discovered punk rock, the family drove to this wonderful place a lot. I would chase grasshoppers and throw flea darts at my brother, dad birdwatched across the wetlands through his U-boat binoculars and mum would sit down and rest after carrying the picnic all the way from the car through the woods, over stiles and down to the riverside on her own. There was usually a whole roast chicken on a plate wrapped in tin foil and we all had our own plates and cutlery too.

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Snape Maltings

The fact that a world famous homosexual composer of opera came from my home town frequently gives me pleasure and optimism. Like The Borough’s Aldeburgh fisherman Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten also sought solace from all the wagging tongues and pointed fingers.
In 1966 he found it just up the river Alde at Snape in a disused maltings complex that within a year he had expensively converted into a purpose-built concert hall in which he and his lover, singer Peter Peers, could hang out in privacy whilst rehearsing, developing and performing new works. The hugely popular Aldeburgh festival has been held here since its completion in 1967.

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