I love the typeface on this cover. It just screams ‘Ethel and I are being adventurous this year, we’re having a week in Ma-jorr-ca’ - in a fussy mid-60s way. #font #typeface #typography #design #bookdesign #bookcovers #1960s #sixties #travel #tourism #guidebook #retro #spain #majorca #bookshelf #bookshopping #shopping
Released 23 years ago this week: Blur’s ‘Parklife’. This is my print of it reimagined as Penguin and Pelican books, available from standarddesigns.etsy.com #britpop #bookpop #penguinbooks #pelicanbooks #bookspines #books #literature #bookshelf #bookshelfdecor #homedecor #shopping #present #gift #tourposter #poster #print #bookstagram #artistsoninstagram #art #etsyseller #etsy #blur #damonalbarn #fans #1994
Tim Peake’s Soyuz TMA-19M capsule in the Science Museum. Which button is Rinse and which one is Spin? #spacelaundry #space #spacetravel #sciencemuseum #soyuz #buttons #science #iss #timpeake #astronaut #technology
Loving the logo for The Saint magazine at the bottom of the cover here. #thesaint #paperback #bookcover #bookstagram #lesliecharteris #logo #bookcover #design #1960s #60s #classy #pulpfiction
Death Star orange #starwars #rogueone #tiein #merch #fruit #healthy #deadly
Released 25 years ago this month, The Cure’s ‘Wish’. This is my print of it transformed into books, available from standarddesigns.etsy.com #thecure #wish #album #anniversary #vinyl #25 #robertsmith #design #penguinbooks #red #white #black #bookspines #shelfie #bookshelf #literature #music #poster #print
The bleeptastic EMS VCS3 synthesiser at the @sciencemuseum yesterday. Hubba hubba. #science #sound #synth #vcs3 #want #60s #roxymusic #brianeno #london #museum #technology
‘Operating Lever’? Nice toy typewriter at the @sciencemuseum yesterday. #writing #writer #typewriter #toy #vintage #red #blue #mattoy #design #productdesign #retro
Old Rotring pens. Not entirely dead, but definitely pining for the fjords. #drawing #edding #rotring #rotringpen #sketch #art #ink #penandink #montypython #parrotsketch #norwegian #blue #vintage #writing
It looks like this diet works by putting you off food completely. Bought for 10p at the local secondhand bookshop. Destined to be turned into some art, at least. #paperback #bookcover #bookstagram #80s #food #diet #fad #design #art #shopping #bookshopping
Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ was released an eye-watering 28 years ago this week. This is my print of it transformed into books, available via the link in my bio. All together now, “De-BAAAAA-ser!” #pixies #doolittle #anniversary #album #1989 #eighties #indie #4ad #vaughnoliver #penguinbooks #pelicanbooks #bookshelf #shelfie #artistsoninstagram #art #design #bookspines
Lovely Penguin Music Magazines from 1947. Not a patch on the NME circa 1982-89 though - where’s the features on Public Enemy or even Napalm Death? Pfffft. #penguinbooks #music #magazine #forties #1940s #design #bookcover #nme #musicpress #indie #bookstagram
Scooby-Don’t. #lego #scoobydoo #cartoon #surreal #art #sculpture #modernart #toy
The eternal question: is red cabbage really a Space Brain From Outer Space? #pattern #vegetables #cabbage #food #purple #60s #psychedelia #scifi #question #art #pretty #cookery #cooking
Wear this disguise and nobody will ever know you’re a ARREST THAT MAN! KLAXON KLAXON WHOOP WHOOP! #bookcover #illustration #childrensbooks #disguise #spycraft #1980s #knowhow
I might have to turn this invitation down as it’s making me feel a little queasy #opart #bookcover #design #penguinbooks #blackandwhite #geometric #art #design
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL, I’ve done this sketch I think you’ll really like” — “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that” — “Okay, let me talk to your supervisor please”. #thatescalatedquickly #2001 #kubrick #stanleykubrick #film #movies #scifi #poster #drawing #print #art #artistsoninstagram #standarddesigns #retro #homedecor #screenprinting #gift #giftideas #space #spacetravel
Here’s another of my Carry On Avant Garde Artist posters, for a Joan Sims exhibition of huge Henry Moore-ish/Barbara Hepworth-y bronze sculptures. If only… It’s available from nonstandarddesigns.etsy.com #sculpture #art #modernart #1950s #1960s #publicart #gallery #exhibition #joansims #carryon #british #comedy #humour #vintage #memorabilia
Wow: REM’s album ‘Reckoning’ (2nd from the left here) was released an incredible 33 years ago this week. (But who’s counting, right?) This is my print of REM’s whole studio discography reimagined as novels, available from standarddesigns.etsy.com #rem #reckoning #album #1984 #socentralrain #penguinbooks #eighties #indie #american #rock #poster #print #printmaking #design #etsy #etsyseller #art #artistsoninstagram #photography #vintage #vintagebooks
My Oscar Wilde print is back in the shop: this time he’s big into 80s indie music. See it in the Standard Designs Etsy shop.
Pitchfork.com places Pulp’s ‘Different Class’ at the top of its Top 50 Britpop Albums. This is my print of it, available via the link in my bio. #pulp #britpop #pitchfork #top50 #numberone #penguinbooks #music #art #print #design #typography #bookcover #bookshelf #shelfie #orange #white #jarviscocker
Gouache. So good they named it gouache. #painting #handlettering #numbers #sixties #messingabout #gouache #1968
Nice work by the minimalists at Transport for London. #londonunderground #tube #station #platform #tape #collage #art #minimalism #hiddenart #artist #artistsoninstagram #london #transportforlondon #oxfordcircus (at Oxford Circus)
