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Comments Off on Ant Farm – Underground Architecture
Here’s a question for you. What do you get when you mix-up a bunch of young, enthusiastic, newly qualified architects, a load of off-the-wall ideas, a rock-band sensibility and a whole host of recreational drugs? Well, if you went back to the late 1960s...
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Comments Off on Swinging Sixties Japanese Film Posters
When it comes to reinterpreting ideas and still coming up with something seemingly new and original the Japanese take a lot of beating and here for your perusal is a great case in point. Western movie posters from the 1960s repackaged for the Japanese market...
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Comments Off on Harry Murphy and Friends
As a design studio in 1970s San Francisco Harry Murphy + Friends were the shining stars of the whole design scene whether it be architectural graphics, corporate identity, large murals or simply domestic interior design. They won over 700 national and...
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Comments Off on George Akimoto – Film Poster Guru
George Akimoto made his name as a film poster and aviation artist but not without first experiencing a period of internment at the hands of his own American government, following the Pearl Harbour attacks of 1941, when he was effectively imprisoned because of...
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Comments Off on Game, Set and Patch – Tennis Wear Sewing Patterns
Back in the days when Nike was the Greek Goddess of Victory before she became the name of the world’s largest purveyors of sporting apparel, believe it or not, people actually used to make their own sports clothing using nothing more than a sewing machine,...
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Comments Off on This is Miroslav Sasek
Miroslav Sasek originally trained as an architect principally because his parents weren’t too keen on his ambition to become a painter but, as if to prove that you shouldn’t stand in the way of talent, after he qualified he duly went off and became a...
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Comments Off on Keiichi Tanaami – Japanese Pop Art Visionary
The massive impact of the latter days of the Second World War on the Japanese collective consciousness is marbled throughout their society in every single area. The early years of Keiiche Tanaami’s life are similarly inextricably linked to...
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Comments Off on Gebrauschsgraphik – Groovy German Art Magazine
From the 1920s through to the present day Gebrauchsgraphik (literally meaning ‘use graphic’ – it’s now called Novum) was a hugely influential Berlin based commercial art magazine. It was published in both German and English and became a truly...
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Comments Off on Czech it Out – Vintage Matchbox Labels
As part of our ongoing phillumenical tour of Europe collecting empty matchboxes (and also empty matchbooks it should be said) we now head east from our previous excursion to Germany and take a brief stopover in Prague and the surrounding area to look at what...
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Comments Off on Pauline Boty’s Nightmare at The BBC Television Centre
Here we have a short and eerie clip from Ken Russell’s 1962 documentary about British Pop Art ‘Pop Goes The Easel’.The snippet of film stars one of our favourite Pop Artist’s Pauline Boty, who’s being chased down the corridors of...
