Side 2B or not side 2B? That is the question.
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#shakespeare #johngielgud #gielgud #theater #theatre #drama #hamlet #williamshakespeare #thespian #stage #lp #recording #vintagerecords #vintageads #advertising #retro #londontheatre #westend
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Thanks to @oliverwoodsphoto for the source material. (at London, United Kingdom)
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Secondhand booty: a 1972 effort from Book Club Associates 😫. Check out the swashtastic Bookman font on the cover! “It’s like, how much more 1972 could this be? And the answer is none. None more 1972”. Anyway looking at, er, bijou items like this, it’s clear that punk was inevitable. Next week on The South Bank Show…
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#spinaltap #nigeltufnel #bca #bookclubassociates #britishmuseum #britain #museums #1970s #70s #70sdesign #70stypography #bookman #swash #typography #font #indulgent #1972 #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #thesouthbankshow #melvynbragg #secondhand #books #bookshopping (at London, United Kingdom)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CeMaMUwoUYA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
One of the best things about May is making elderflower cordial, a delicious and refreshing drink that strengthens the mind by forcing one to block out the thought that there’s probably over a dozen insects in every gulp. #nopesticides #garden #gardening #elder #eldertree #elderflower #elderflowercordial #bbcgoodfood #drink #summerdrink #homecooking #diy #selfsufficiency #digforvictory #lemon #mind #mindpower (at London, United Kingdom)
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By popular demand we’ve created a t-shirt version of our much-loved ‘Anarchist Gardening Now!’ print. Now you can garden haphazardly… in style! They’re available today on the Standard Designs website.
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#gardening #hackney #greenwich #london #horticulture #garden #gift #giftideas #gardener #standarddesigns #scandistyle #vogue #illustration #abstractart #gardenersworld #localpolitics #tshirt #tees #gardeninggear #giftsforgardeners #anarchistgardeningnow #anarchist #rebellion #allotment #allotmentuk #allotmentlife #teeshirt
https://www.instagram.com/p/CeEMoGAKqMJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Working & busy & occupied & grafting & where’s that cup of tea? And biscuits.
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#design #art #texture #adobedrawing #adobefresco #handlettering #brain #working #hardwork #mindfulness #grit #thinking #tea #teaandbiscuits
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Caution: this logo may induce eye-freakouts and brain-frazzlery. Goodness knows how the diners must have felt clocking this on their menus while ordering.
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#food #restaurant #logo #logotype #1970s #70s #70sdesign #70stypography #typography #design #london #thecut #theatre #blackandwhite #opart #psychedelicart #psychedelia #maze (at London, United Kingdom)
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Found in a theatre programme from the 1960s kindly donated by @oliverwoodsphoto - Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams on the same bill? Where’s my time machine! (Honorable mention to Ralph Richardson also for whatever he was doing further down the page).
#maggiesmith #kennethwilliams #westend #theatre #londontheatre #theater #comedy #stagecomedy #1960s #60s #theatreprogramme #typography #design #blackandwhite #monochrome #typography #ralphrichardson #actors #thespian #actor #actorslife (at London, United Kingdom)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd9A3TOow6B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A groovy little gem discovered at @tate Britain last week. The Drury Lane Arts Lab was where David Bowie used to brush up his mime act and John Lennon and Yoko Ono exhibited their first collaborative artwork. It’s probably a chippy now.
#design #logo #typograohy #1960s #sixties #60s #artslab #drurylane #london #johnlennon #yokoono #davidbowie #fishandchips #londongallery #londongalleries #groovy #swingingsixties (at Drury Lane)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd3mq9JIG6i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The 10s 6d image from the other day came from the endpapers of this book of Tony Hancock scripts (kindly donated by @oliverwoodsphoto ). Superb early 1960s design.
#hancock #tonyhancock #comedy #britishcomedy #tvcomedy #sitcom #hancockshalfhour #bookstagram #bookdesign #1960s #bbc #bbccomedy #design #typography (at London, United Kingdom)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0rWhsoO42/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The 10s 6d image from the other day came from the endpapers of this book of Tony Hancock scripts (kindly donated by @oliverwoodsphoto ). Superb early 1960s design.
#hancock #tonyhancock #comedy #britishcomedy #tvcomedy #sitcom #hancockshalfhour #bookstagram #bookdesign #1960s #bbc #bbccomedy #design #typography (at London, United Kingdom)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzDipeoxHu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Today’s sketchcercise: snapped some McWrongalds packaging on the street this morning, traced it in Adobe Fresco, erased bits haphazardly, 15 mins at Gas Mark 7, voila.
#adobe #adobefresco #packaging #packagingdesign #fastfood #drawing #ipad #ipadart #collage #sketch #art #artschool #exercise #recipe #artlife (at London, United Kingdom)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdysQbRIdgJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
That’s about £927,546.27p in today’s money.
#book #endpapers #predecimal #typography #vintagetype #poundsshillingsandpence #hancock #tv #tiein #design #inflation #grot #grotesquefont (at London, United Kingdom)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdwP21XIWd3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Happy 150th birthday to Bertrand Russell. He may be gone but the memories of his legendary DJ-set-and-lecture evenings linger on.
#bertrandrussell #russell #philosophy #philosopher #banthebomb #poster #posterdesign #illustration #adobefresco #gillsans #djset #dj #lecture #designinspo #interiorinspo
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdtQYwRI1fv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Just a brief reminderette that my record cover price tag prints are still available on the Standard Designs website (tap the image/link in bio etc. etc.)
#recordcover #pricetag #coversticker #artprint #musicposter #musicprint #artprint #affordableart #artforsale #homeinspo #interiorinspo #bedroom #popart #musicart #recordstore #recordstoreday #popmusic #recordcollector #wallart #housewarming #giftidea #musicfan
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdoOmp5okPs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Some highlights from the Sickert show at @tate Britain. It’s a good show and well put together - particularly when showing how much he learned from Degas and Whistler. And yet Sickert never really had a Number One hit, did he? He maybe had three or four Top 10s, a dozen or so in the mid to low Top 40s, and apart from the rest dropping briefly in and out of the Top 100 that was about it. Is he therefore the Ultravox of British art, with ‘Ennui’ as his ‘Vienna’? And if so, who is the Joe Dolce Music Theatre? Harold Gilman? #stretchedmetaphors #top10 #ukcharts #sickert #waltersickert #tate #tatebritain #londongallery #londonmuseum #londongalleries #londonmuseums #ultravox #joedolce #80spop #joedolcemusictheatre #onehitwonder #shaddupyouface #britishart #haroldgilman (at Tate Britain)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdl6MvoIbg4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
“I’ve eaten my human captors and now I’m freeeeee!” (at London, United Kingdom)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdfjaz6IFVb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Old Chestnut just keeps coming out with ‘em. ‘Relentlessly, gratingly upbeat’ says the Daily Sketch. ‘What have we done to deserve this?’ asks the Northampton Southampton & Littlehampton Advertiser. ‘Please contribute to our appeal to buy him a one-way ticket to the South Pole,’ pleads Apathy Weekly.
#theoldonesarethebestones #oldchestnut #jokes #jokewriting #typography #fonts #vintagefonts #design #retrosupplyco #chestnut #newspapers #botanical #botanicalart
https://www.instagram.com/p/CddoLqqqRQD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Bonjour tout le everybody. Mon «Ã‡a Va Okay» print est still available chez mon website, oui?
#franglais #print #printing #art #design #poster #artprint #artprints #interiorinspo #gallerywall #galleryposter #plakat #affiche #homeinspo #artforsale #exhibitionposter #artexhibition #vogue #elledeco #interiordesign
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Ephemera-a-gogo at the Surrealism Without Borders show at @tate Modern. Surrealists loved a bit of short-run self-published verbiage. Because of course you can change the whole world’s consciousness with words, as long as you elephant-piano-egg-beach-eyelashes-thimble-dromedary hard enough at the typewriter.
#surrealism #tate #tatemodern #art #artmuseum #london #surrealismwithoutborders #surrealist #gallery #exhibition #londongalleries #melvynbragg #southbankshow #londongallery #writing #nonsequitur #ephemera #pamphlet (at Tate Modern)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdSvEUWIH0U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Shhhh! It’s Barry* the Redacted Horse.
*Not his real name.
His words are spoken by an actor (Richard Burton**).
** Not his real name.
#ephemera #vintage #vintageillustration #victoriana #illustration #horse #equine #design #typography #art #surrealism (at London, United Kingdom)
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A few highlights from the Surrealism Without Borders exhibition at Tate Modern, which has an inspiring premise (‘Hey kids, Surrealism wasn’t just a bunch of French dudes doing lots of wobbly anthropomorphic stuff, there were people all round the world doing their own Surrealisms’) and starts off well, but as it goes on it increasingly becomes a lot of people from round the world doing wobbly anthropomorphic stuff just like that bunch of French dudes, and so kinda shoots itself in the foot. Maybe there wasn’t sufficient work available to fully support the thesis, but I suspect it’s more that too narrow an interpretation of Surrealism and its potential methods of deployment was used. Anyway, despite all that it’s still worth seeing and I’m glad I went. Next week on the South Bank Show…
#surrealism #tate #tatemodern #art #artmuseum #london #surrealismwithoutborders #surrealist #gallery #exhibition #londongalleries #melvynbragg #southbankshow #londongallery (at Tate Modern)
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Time to put my feet up. I’m presuming I have an understudy to cover my appearance this evening…?
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#theatre #acting #typography #woodtype #silkscreen #printing #orintmaking #theater #thespian #blackandwhite #design #poster #posterdesign (at Soho and the West End)
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Sumptuous colours at @wakehurst_kew today. The place looks lovely all year round but it gets really spectacular beginning about this time of year. Totally worth a visit if you’ve never been. #wakehurst #kewgardens #kewwakehurst #garden #horticulture #rhododendron #plants #flowers #gardening #conservation #flora #botany #flowerphotography (at Wakehurst Place & Kew Millenium Seed Bank)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdEYjyhI9qG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
This is the map equivalent of ‘Yeah it’s over in that direction, mate. Good luck!’ #dontgetlost #map #cartography #ephemera #paperbag #collecting #collection #design #typography #souvenir #france #lafrance #français #generalities (at France)
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