Reid's longstanding practice as an artist sits firmly within a tradition of English radical dissent that would include, for example, William Blake, Wat Tyler and Gerrard Winstanley. Like them, the work of dissent must offer, out of necessity, other social and spiritual models and Reid's practice is no exception.

Although Reid is known primarily for the deployment of Situationist strategies in his iconic work for the Sex Pistols and Suburban Press, the manifold strands of his art both continue that work whilst showing us other ways in which we can mobilise our energy and spirituality. It is this dialectic between gnosticism and dissent that lies at the heart of Reid's practice and makes him one of the great English iconoclastic artists.

Alongside www.jamiereid.org, we worked with Jamie and Isis Gallery on www.eightfoldyear.org. Every day for a year a different painting will appear, along with moon phases, saints days, seasonal plants and other festive celebrations.

(Image © Jamie Reid)

Rebels in Control have built a website to document the Voiceworks projects past and present. For the 2010/2011 academic year, the Rebels will also be helping students to report on their activities via the website, individually and as creative teams, as well as participating directly in projects arising from the creation of new Voiceworks.

Rebels in Control were commissioned by co-producers Sound And Music and Forma to create a site promoting Whispering in the Leaves. Our CMS-driven work features time-sensitive stylesheets that subtly alter the colourways depending on what time of day you view the site.

Rainforest photography for Whispering in the Leaves © Sean Thamer.

First up: releases by 808 State, Buggles and a deluxe reworking of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's “Welcome to the Pleasuredome”. Many more to follow…

(FGTH illustration © Lo Cole)

Rebels in Control were in disco heaven when Steffi commissioned them to illustrate the cover for Steffi's debut 12”, “Kill Me”, released by Ostgut Ton, the label run by Berghain / Panorama Bar. The imagery used for the artwork was born from collaboration – photos of butterflies supplied by Steffi's mother were collaged by us; typography is by Ostgut Ton's in-house designer, Yusuf Etiman.

Paul Morley, Horn’s co-founder on projects such as Art of Noise and ZTT Records explains it best. “If in the 60s, Phil Spector created a ‘wall of sound’,” he says, “by the middle of the 80s Horn had already established his sound, a whole room of sound, the walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, decorated with absolute flourish. As an architect of sound, Horn is unashamedly an exhibitionist, an utter show off... He has proved time and time again that pop is an art form, and that he is the supreme pop artist.”

Rebels in Control have built Trevor Horn's new official site, part of our on-going work for his SPZ Group. Welcome to the pleasuresite…!

Guðnadóttir began playing cello as a child, entered the Reykjavík Music Academy and then moved on to musical studies/composition and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and Universitat der Kunste in Berlin.

As a composer she has written music for plays, dance performances and films, pieces for chamber orchestras, various instruments, voices and electronics. Guðnadóttir likes to explore the nature and movement of sound, and often turns her experiments into sound and visual installations. She recently co-composed a live soundtrack to Derek Jarman's 1980 film In The Shadow of The Sun with legends Throbbing Gristle, arranged choir for performances by them in Austria and London.

Rebels in Control have designed her new website, launched in support of her second solo album (and her first for Touch), "Without Sinking". The website runs on a CMS spine, so Hildur can update the contents herself. Its design features the beautiful landscape photography of Jon Wozencroft, used on the album's packaging.

(Photo © Jon Wozencroft/Touch)

Following our work for ZTT Records, SPZ hired us to work on sites for two of their other businesses: Music Bank - Europe's leading backline hire and rehearsal studio facilities, and Perfect Songs - one of the UK's longest-running independent music publishers.

Our designs for these two sites share cues with ztt.com, building a family feel for the Group. Both sites run off a CMS spine, allowing SPZ to control their own content. In addition we have rebuilt spz.com, which now automatically collates newsfeeds from the other three sites.

ZTT's iconic status stemmed from Horn's big productions and Morley's mad / maddening marketing of the label. Horn and his in-house studio team (including Art of Noise members Gary Langan, J.J. Jeczalik, Anne Dudley as well as Stephen Lipson and Bob Kraushaar) created endless 'diversions' (aka remixes) of every track produced, a pioneering concept. Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones, Art of Noise, Seal, 808 State and Propaganda were all chart and critical successes for the label.

2008 saw ZTT celebrating its 25th anniversary with deluxe reissues of 808 State's catalogue alongside the definitive Zang Tumb Tuum box set. Rebels in Control were hired by ZTT to fashion a brand new online presence. Working closely with in-house archivist Ian Peel, the Rebels have built a clean, uncluttered but in-depth CMS-driven site with many references and winks to ZTT's deep design heritage. The site will grow over the coming months as Peel and the Rebels add content covering the labels vast archive; 25 years of creativity, housed online.

In late 2009, Rebels in Control commenced work on a series of redesigns of classic ZTT albums. More info here.

Rebels in Control have redesigned the Touch website in close collaboration with founders Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding. Based around a CMS backbone, the site is intended to be an archive of the publishers activities from their very beginning onwards, featuring a complete catalogue, reviews archive, the TouchRadio mp3 project, essays from Touch and even a recipe book…

The site is augmented by the TouchShop which offers CDs and other releases by Touch and associated labels. The TouchShop now has a design harmonious with the Touch website making it a richer experience, with clearer navigation, tidier information display and larger packshots throughout.

These ventures are part of an ongoing relationship with the publishers, which has previously included designing microsites for Touch artists, and cover art for sister label Ash International.

To support the album's release, we also built the new www.zerocrop.com, its online shop, and designed the accompanying Zerocrop seven inch, Die Screaming - a limited edition of 500 only in gorgeous fluro-pink and black packaging, illustrated by Oscar Henriquez. The Die Screaming seven inch single is free. £0.00. Zero pence!

Both CD and seven inch are available from the new Zerocrop Shop.

Rebels in Control have worked on microsites the labels' artists, including those for his brother Steve Jansen, Sylvian and Jansen's group project Nine Horses and legendary avant-garde guitarist Derek Bailey and an artists' page for new signing Thomas Feiner incorporating pictures of Jean Cocteau taken by Cecil Beaton, among others.

Our most recent work for Sylvian has been tied to his breathtaking 2009 album, Manafon, for which we built new versions of his official site, a stand-alone microsite for the album and a new online shop for his label.

Isis is currently working with legendary Sex Pistols illustrator Jamie Reid and the magickal art of cult musician David Tibet. There are drawings and collages by Antony Hegarty, the breathtakingly precise, detourned drawings by former tattoo artist Ruth Marten and Alice O'Malley's intimate silver gelatin prints of Lower East Side characters.

Rebels in Control have designed a CMS-managed website for Isis and its artist pages, clean and minimal in style, announcing Isis activities and providing plenty of background reading on Isis artists.

(Photograph © Alice O'Malley)

Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, their very unique brand of electronic music is as much Carpenters as it is cutting-edge electro, with a nod to current minimal influences.

Rebels in Control designed the stark cover art for their debut EP, Anatomy Of A Plastic Girl, available as a limited 10" vinyl and digital download. Please visit their MySpace page for further information.