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Barney Bubbles: artist and designer
Image-heavy post! Please be patient. Four designs for three bands, all by the same designer, the versatile and brilliant Barney Bubbles. A recent reference over at Ace Jet 170 to the sleeve for In...
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The Metamorphoses of Don José
Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez. The sight of one of Picasso’s many versions of Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour) by Velázquez earlier this week prompts this post. An endlessly fascinating...
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Weekend links 46
The Final Programme (1973). Philip Castle’s poster art implied the androgynous finale of Moorcock’s novel which the film itself evaded. They were musty-smelling 10p messages from the futuristic past,...
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Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
The Beatles aka The White Album (1968) by The Beatles. Design by Richard Hamilton. Hamilton admires Hunger but he has little time for the other Young British Artists. He can’t imagine a conversation...
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Eduardo Paolozzi at New Worlds
I was working on this book throughout the autumn, and it could hardly be more different to some of the visual extravagance that came before and after. Eduardo Paolozzi at New Worlds is published by...
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Dubliners
Woman walking past a stationery shop on O’Connell (Sackville) Street. Photo by JJ Clarke. This year is the centenary of James Joyce’s short-story collection, Dubliners, so the book provides a...
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