Old Chestnut just keeps coming out with ‘em. ‘Relentlessly,...

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
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Bonjour tout le everybody. Mon «Ça Va Okay» print est still...

Bonjour tout le everybody. Mon «Ça 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...

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)
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Shhhh! It’s Barry* the Redacted Horse. *Not his real name. His...

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...

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...

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...

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)
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This is the map equivalent of ‘Yeah it’s over in that direction,...

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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Some of my recent collage pieces are now available as prints on...

Some of my recent collage pieces are now available as prints on the Standard Designs website. Tap the images/link in bio, etc. and get that ‘Spring refresh’ you’ve been meaning to get on with done it a click or two.

#art #collage #photocopier #printmaking #photocopyart #typography #words #literature #philosophy #contructivism #modernart #abstractart #poster #posterdesign #design #artforsale #newart #artprint #artprints #interiorinspo #gallerywall #scandistyle #plakat #affiche #homeinspo #springrefresh #springcleaning #minimalism #minimalistart (at London, United Kingdom)
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From the @thersc 1978 production of The Tempest, as depicted in...

From the @thersc 1978 production of The Tempest, as depicted in a special pull-out section of the Coventry Evening Telegraph. I mean… wow! ‘70s-tastic!

#1978 #coventry #royalshakespearecompany #hair #makeup #theatre #theater #shakespeare #thetempest #70s #70sfashion #70sstyle #drama #newspaper #vintage #vintagenewspaper PS thanks to @oliverwoodsphoto for the source material. (at Royal Shakespeare Company)
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