Went to see the Frank Auerbach show at Tate Britain today. If you go, take an hour or so to go round it. The paintings look simple (bedside table de Koonings, in a way), but they contain a lot. This is one of my favourites. Colour and drawing describing space, which is a difficult trick to pull off. Oh, and the big stodgy lumpy early ones are fun too. #tate #frankauerbach #exhibition #art #drawing #painting #london
This Pelican Book is from 1972. Indeed, the typography here couldn’t be more early 1970s if it was wearing tartan flares, calling a factory out on strike or appearing alongside Robin Askwith. #1970s #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #typography #graphicdesign #seventies #70s
Condensation - it’s when nature plus double glazing come up with their own Instagram filter (everyone’s in the app business these days) #autumn #photo #window #condensation #nice
Aha, it’s National Poetry Day. In the early days of Standard Designs I did a range of portrait drawings, including these poets. You can see more via this link
I wonder if whoever did the cut & paste illustration job here took the ‘exercise’ part of 'exercise book’ a little too literally. #graphicdesign #learntoread #exercisebook#school #illustration
Pretty pink pricey pasta packaging promotes pictorial… er… pinspiration.
#printing #packaging #advertising #design #italian #p
Rotring pens. Very tricky to clean properly, but even when they’re utterly caked in ink like this one was they can be made good as new again. Art is a struggle, and like all other struggles it requires patience, resolve, and lukewarm soapy water. #rotring #pen #design #drawing #art #engineering #freedomfortooting
“If that glass is for soft drink you should know we don’t do cola or lemonade anymore,” the nice lady at the IKEA café till told me yesterday, “it’s fruit drinks only now.” My heart sank a little as I was quite looking forward to some pep-inducing cola with my New Vegetable Balls (do please write your own punchlines) but I’m happy to report that the Apple Drink Sparkling is a delight: it tastes quite factory-fabricated in that mitteleuropa way. Which is kind of like saying “it’s from space!” with diminished ambitions. Hey-ho. #ikea #drink #europe #comfort #eurovision
To paraphrase the Beatles, ‘It was twenty years ago today’ that Oasis released ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’. Here’s a close-up of my print, available from standarddesigns.etsy.com
