This rebellious attitude extended to breaking school uniform rules through wearing shoulder length hair and flares.
[3] During this time, Breeden designed covers for bands like Gang of Four,[4] ABC,[5] Angelic Upstarts,[6] and The Photos.
[8] Continuing as a graphic designer for sleeves, he worked with ABC,[9] Scritti Politti,[10] Pink Floyd,[11] Roxy Music,[12] and Fine Young Cannibals.
His various concepts for Scritti Politti would range from disarrayed wildflowers to chocolate bars and boxes to the many visual ways to reference Aretha Franklin, all suggesting elements of modern love at a period when Scritti was strongly establishing a transition to urban romance from a more DIY aesthetic that had previously distinguished their sound.
Commissions have included Sir Brian Smith, Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University, Sir Dominic Cadbury Chairman of Cadbury Schweppes, Professor John Temple, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh[13] and Professor Roger Williams, Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading.