This Is The Author #2

Here we see ‘smouldering’, 1940s-style.

Was The Clash's album 'London Calling' Sold Like A Car?

This is the third and final print in my series of 1960s style car ads advertising 1970s punk albums. This time it’s 'London Calling' by The Clash.

The idea was to create something that looked like something your eye might glance at and go ‘huh, it’s an old ad’, but then when you looked closer you saw that something a bit strange and original was going on. So this print started out as an actual 1960s car ad, but then it received a dose of punk anarchy (which was itself a close cousin of late-60s Situationism and all the May ‘68 hijinks in Paris).

Have a look at how the text got changed on the road to becoming an ad for one of the greatest ever punk albums:

It’s lots of different things at once. So if simple, mainstream band merchandise is your thing, this print isn’t for you. But if you like something that’s good to look at and sets the mind going in different directions… the print is available from the Standard Designs Etsy shop.

This Is The Author

And by the looks of things, he’s not going to let you forget it.