Art On My Sleeve: An interview with Steve Averill, graphic designer

Steve Averill is a graphic designer, art director, writer and musician. Having been involved in the counter culture in Dublin since the 1960s – including a stint as a DJ in a club called Middle Earth and founding a fanzine called Freep – he gravitated to the emerging punk movement and formed the first Irish punk group, the Radiators From Space (Murphy 2017). He left the band after their first album to concentrate on his design career. Shortly afterwards, he was approached by the bass player of a local band, the Hype, to work on the group’s visual identity. The Hype would subsequently become hugely successful after changing their name to U2 at Averill’s suggestion.