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Chaumont show selection continues

Apr 9th, 2012

//Holding foldout sleeve for the 1972 album Revelations: A Musical Anthology For The Glastonbury Fayre, designed by Barney Bubbles and released in 1972. Photo: Sophie Demay//

Artist/curator Sophie Demay and I are continuing to sort through potential materials for this summer’s exhibition White Noise, which Demay is creating with Etienne Hervy as part of this year’s International Poster & Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont, France.

See more images from the selection process on the Barney Bubbles blog.

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Ian Dury With Love: Barney Bubbles back at the V&A

Mar 13th, 2012
Ian Dury With Love, 60in x 40in poster for the 1977 Live Stiffs tour, designed by Barney Bubbles.

Ian Dury With Love, 60in x 40in poster, 1977.

I sourced this incredible large-scale Barney Bubbles-designed poster from a private collection for the V&A’s forthcoming exhibition British Design: 1948-2012.

Chris Breward, co-curator with Ghislaine Wood, credits my 2010 exhibition Process (which focused on Bubbles’ working practices) for having persuaded the V&A to foreground the work of the late graphic designer in the new show.

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Beatbooks 58: Psychedelia

Jul 19th, 2011

Psychedelics – in the form of art, design, drugs, literature, music and the counter-culture – dominate the latest catalogue from BeatBooks.

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Postcards: Moscoso+ Kagan for The Family Dog

Apr 7th, 2011

This Family Dog postcard was a present for Victor Moscoso fan Mrs G a couple of years back.

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Posters: The Heartbreakers at The Speakeasy (1977)

Mar 15th, 2011

Thirty four years ago today The Heartbreakers played The Speakeasy.

The rock business haunt north of Oxford Circus had seen better times by this gig. I was taken by a member, a photographer at the agency where I worked. I remember being embarrassed by his long hair.

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Posters: The withdrawn Carry On Cleo by Tom Chantrell (1964)

Mar 14th, 2011

I bought this beauty at a second-hand bookshop at Willesden Green underground station in 1983.

I see from the pencil marking on the back it cost £2. Measuring 39″ x 20″, it turns out it is quite the rarity.

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Feb 5th, 2011

A personal loss and the rash of suicides among young gay individuals in the US has prompted the creation of a two-sided poster as the latest project by art collective 2-UP .

No More Suicides is a collaboration between Adam Shecter (who founded 2-UP last year with partner Joe Winter) and poet Matthea Harvey, who suffered the loss of a friend at their own hand.

“One side is fantasy; Matthea’s poem imagines a fox constellation that looks after kids, and I draw an imaginary mascot for a LGBT kids TV show,” says Shecter.

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