In search of the entirely unexpected: Barney Bubbles among Print magazine’s Unsung Heroes Of Design
//From Print’s 75th anniversary issue, illustrations (clockwise from top left): A section of Bubbles’ design for the sleeve of 1979 LP Armed Forces lines up with work by Ruth Ansel, Andrew Loomis, Ladislaw Sutnar, Cipe Pineles and Paul Bacon//
For its 75th anniversary issue, US visual culture publication Print has selected Barney Bubbles as one of six “unsung heroes of design”.
Focusing on work produced in the punk and post-punk period of the late 70s and early 80s, Brooklyn-based art director/writer Angela Riechers chose Bubbles for “his consistent wit and willingness to turn things inside out in search of something entirely unexpected… he drew upon the vernacular to create a striking and original graphic language for a new type of music”.
//Riechers’ essay on Bubbles with designs including the sleeves for Elvis Costello & The Attractions’ This Years Model (top right) and Get Happy!!//
Bubbles is in interesting company; Reichers also chose the Czech “information designer” Ladislaw Sutnar, Austria’s Cipe Pineles (the first woman to hold the title of art director at a major magazine), American graphic designer and jazz musician Paul Bacon, illustrator/art instructor Andrew Loomis and Ruth Ansel of Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair.
Look inside the latest issue of Print here.