Amazing to find this ancient artefact for sale at our local garden centre… just look at the beauty our ancestors imbued that Arial Bold with… 🤔 Marvellous! #typography #fonts #arial #arialbold #antiques #decoration #garden #gardencentre #type #design #gardening #tat #ancientartefacts #artefacts #ancestors (at London, United Kingdom)
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The Standard Designs Mansion’s gardens continue to provide an endless supply of late-80s & early-90s album cover art à la 23 Envelope et al. I’m guessing this one is for David Sylvian’s 1987 triple-album ‘Aeneas’s Transom’ featuring Robert Fripp on kettle and Rod Hull & Emu on reversed xylophone and Prophet-5. #ripdavesmith #albumcover #albumcoverart #garden #gardening #foundart #ready@ade #art #design #photography #gardener #elderflower #stones #rocks #davidsylvian #robertfripp #rodhull #emu #prophet5 #davesmith #23envelope #1980s #80smusic #1990s #90smusic
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Today’s typographic doodle. It’s been raining a bit a lot. #adobefresco #truegrittexturesupply #riso #risograph #rain #london #londonweather #spring #typography #design #art #sketch #doodle #lettering
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I was a bit intrigued by the ‘Andy Warhol Diaries’ series on Netflix so imagine my surprise when I discovered there’s already a book out about it! 🤪 Seriously though I realised I’d never read the diaries, only ‘A to B & Back Again’, and so got this slab of late ‘70s/early & mid ‘80s upper stratosphere NYC, a time & place in history I’m forever fascinated by. And it’s kinda great, very flat - I can imagine Aki Kaurismaki turning it into a a 4 day long film called ‘Warhol Goes Business’.
#andywarhol #warhol #warholdiaries #thewarholdiaries #popartdiary #newyork #nyc #1970s #1980s #newyorkart #newyorkartgallery #basquiat #akikaurismäki #business #books #bookstagram #artbook #netflix
https://www.instagram.com/p/CeRhSOfo_rG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd_irotIKTK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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
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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)
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