Is Spotify Trying To Tell Me Something?

If I was a more sensitive soul (and was unaware of the existence of the proto-punk electronic group of the same name) I might feel rather aggrieved…

Jacques Auriac

I can’t tell you how much the above floats my boat. A poster by Jacques Auriac (1922-2003), via here.

Rimbaud

This is Modernism in action, allying abstract expressionism with Rimbaud’s verse.

Working on my next print

I go through endless auditions & edits, piling books up, rearranging them, trying to find the right combination of colours, patterns, patinas & textures to suit the album I’m trying to capture. The above is a snapshot from one such marathon session the other evening. I think this might become a new Kate Bush print to accompany my Hounds of Love print. We’ll see, we’ll see…

Retro To Go: David Bowie albums as Penguin books prints by Standard Designs at Etsy

Retro To Go: David Bowie albums as Penguin books prints by Standard Designs at Etsy:

Love Bowie? Love old paperbacks? We have just the thing for you - these David Bowie albums as Penguin books prints by Standard Designs. Not all Bowie albums. Instead, the designer has focused on the ‘Berlin’ albums of Heroes, Low…

Retro To Go like my new David Bowie ‘Berlin Trilogy’ prints. Das is wunderbar!

David Bowie's 'Berlin Trilogy' - Low, "Heroes", Lodger - As Books

New prints available now in my Etsy shop via these links: Low, "Heroes" and Lodger

Growing up in the 1970s in Britain with Radio One playing continuously on the kitchen radio ensured that I was pretty well saturated with Bowie during my formative years. Yet it wasn’t until I was doing my MA in Fine Art in my early twenties that I picked up a cassette of 'Low', played it, and fell instantly in love.

"Heroes" (watch out for those double quotes around the title, fact-fans) became my next Bowie must-have. This was ‘Autobahn’ for the Top 40 generation. ‘The Secret Life of Arabia’ continues to be one of my guiltiest of pleasures.

And finally we come to 'Lodger', a strangely straightforward album at first listen, but it’s more elbows than hands (if I can put it that way), and it points the way to much of the best stuff in Bowie’s ’80s and ’90s work. His vocal on ‘Fantastic Voyage’ never ceases to elicit goosebumps.

So, all three prints are now available in my shop, and if you buy all three there’s a special 10% discount here.

18th Century Problems

Art is so often improved by context.