Back when Umberto Eco set himself up as a film studio....

Back when Umberto Eco set himself up as a film studio. #postmodernism #film #italian #filmstill

Manic Street Preachers’ ‘The Holy Bible’ Album As Books

My new album-as-books print is the Manic Street Preachers’...

My new album-as-books print is the Manic Street Preachers’ classic 1994 disc ‘The Holy Bible’ - available from today, precisely 21 years since its original release date. It’s available from bit.ly/holymanics #manics #msp #manicstreetpreachers #theholybible #album #wales #welsh #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #richeyedwards #design #bookcover #homedecor #homeliving #dorm #dormlife #art

Every Record Tells A Story

Great to see my friend Tim Bowness playing live at Boston Music...

Great to see my friend Tim Bowness playing live at Boston Music Room in London last night. Ably assisted as ever by his band including Michael Bearpark on guitar (who many years ago taught me the difference between the dorian and mixolydian modes amongst other handy guitar nuggets). Do check out Tim’s new album ‘Stupid Things That Mean The World’ if you can. #timbowness #michaelbearpark #colinedwin #bostonmusicroom #london

On the studio wall: Elvis, Priscilla, Lisa Marie and Philip...

On the studio wall: Elvis, Priscilla, Lisa Marie and Philip Guston. A winning combination. #elvis #elvispresley #philipguston #art #painting #studio

Today’s erudite DIY task: building a replica of the Old...

Today’s erudite DIY task: building a replica of the Old Bailey in the living room. #nfsimpson #absurd #theatre #book #play #diy

Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893. It feels like I did...

Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893. It feels like I did this drawing around the same time #howtimeflies #earlywork #drawing #dorothyparker #birthday #literature #literary #print standarddesigns.etsy.com

From the Ladybird book ‘Cooking with Mother’,...

From the Ladybird book ‘Cooking with Mother’, published in 1977. I think this is the illustration for 'Milk Plus - milk plus vellocet, synthmesc or drencrom’. #clockworkorange #ladybird #ladybirdbooks #design #book #1977 #kubrick

In the park today: nature doing its best ‘1980s Brian Eno...

In the park today: nature doing its best ‘1980s Brian Eno Album Cover’ impression. #brianeno #talkingheads #u2 #albumcover #nature

Today would have been Ted Hughes’s 85th birthday. Crows...

Today would have been Ted Hughes’s 85th birthday. Crows everywhere have been crowing their thanks for the big-up all day. Ditto the cast and crew of ‘Ghostbusters II’, Hughes’s favourite movie. #tedhughes #poet #poetry #ghostbusters #portrait #print

Teeny-tiny Tintin toy today. #Tintin #Hergé #bookshelf

Teeny-tiny Tintin toy today. #Tintin #Hergé #bookshelf

Today I found my old secondary school photo, taken in May 1982....

Today I found my old secondary school photo, taken in May 1982. Naturally it’s a fascinating record of 300 or so different attempts at The Perfect Eighties Hairstyle. But as much as the boredom and mutual antagonism on the faces of everyone pictured - teachers and pupils alike - tells a story, the deathly dull architecture in the background - the school roof, a nearby council house, a gaggle of TV aerials - says just as much to me, and in an equally haunting fashion. #school #photo #class #1980s #blackandwhite #architecture #boredom #thesmiths #morrissey #dormlife #dolequeue #britain #education #b&w #ohnonotdoublegeographyagain

Fans of wind instruments and stark 1970s/early 1980s photography...

Fans of wind instruments and stark 1970s/early 1980s photography will thrill to this strange little tome from the Horniman Museum (you at the back - stop giggling). #music #instruments #wind #book #museum #typography #1970s #1980s

Brian Glover thrills in multiple tartans high above Barnsley....

Brian Glover thrills in multiple tartans high above Barnsley. #brianglover #barnsley #itv #1970s #tartan #tv #seventies

Happy birthday to Philip Larkin, born this day in 1922. A great...

Happy birthday to Philip Larkin, born this day in 1922. A great poetry career, and an even greater career as a recording artiste as this poster attests. (Adorn your walls with it via bit.ly/larkinprint) #larkin #philiplarkin #mandatoryadvert #poster #print #jazz #kingsleyamis #barbarapym #johnwain #johnbetjeman #english #poet #poetry #gift #print #dormroom #literature

‘Wildlife Window’, made by Grampian TV in the 1970s....

‘Wildlife Window’, made by Grampian TV in the 1970s. Any similarity between this and Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer’s Mulligan & O'Hare is surely entirely coincidental. #1970s #tv #itv #vicreeves #bobmortimer #mulliganandohare #scottish #scotland #retro #tv

New Print: Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’ Album As Books

Penguins, Pelicans, Parker, Penelope. #penguinbooks...

Penguins, Pelicans, Parker, Penelope. #penguinbooks #pelicanbooks #thunderbirds #postcard #homedecor #books

Having a Talking Heads moment (this will be my 3,647,894th,...

Having a Talking Heads moment (this will be my 3,647,894th, probably). #talkingheads #lifeduringwartime #helvetica

And so another album-as-books print begins with the fishing-out...

And so another album-as-books print begins with the fishing-out of likely volumes from the Standard Designs Infinite Library, the stacking of those volumes on the Standard Designs Executive Dining Table, and the incessant reordering of them via the Standard Designs Indecision-O-Tron 3000 #process #albumasbooks #penguinbooks #art #design #typography #shopping #gift #musicposters #industry

The studio at night. A window, a geometrical instrument, a...

The studio at night. A window, a geometrical instrument, a literary reference - basically it’s your typical existentialist’s/surrealist’s dream. #studio #art #artist #jeanpaulsartre #sartre #existentialism #surreal #surrealism

I bought someone’s old stamp collection at a car boot sale...

I bought someone’s old stamp collection at a car boot sale for under a tenner today. The ‘Round The Horne’ fan in me couldn’t resist the name of one of the books. Oh and there’s a few nice stamps in there too. #stamps #philately #roundthehorne #julianandsandy #bbc #radio #comedy #kennethwilliams #carbootsale

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