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Posters centre-stage of V&A’s British Design show
Promotional poster/double-sided fold-out tour programme for Ian Dury & The Blockheads, 1978. 59cm x 84cm. Ian Dury With Love, 60in x 40in poster, 1977. These two stunning Barney Bubbles posters...
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Barney Bubbles’ work in French exhibition this summer
//4 x 12" colour variants, back cover, My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello, Stiff Records, 1977.// Selected works by Barney Bubbles will appear in this summer’s group exhibition about the visual language...
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Barney Bubbles in new issue of Blueprint
There’s a feature on Barney Bubbles and the inclusion of his work in the current British Design: 1948- 2012 exhibition in the new issue of British architecture + design magazine Blueprint. Visit...
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Bob Andrews’ Cracking Up grin
Top: Detail, Music press ad for The Rumour, 1979. Below: Detail, front cover, Cracking Up, Nick Lowe, 1979. The collaged waving hand/face on the sleeve of Nick Lowe’s 1979 single Cracking Up is one of...
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Ian Dury + JCC: The joy of songbooks
//Front, John Cooper Clarke Directory, Omnibus Press, 1979. 10" x 7", 52pp (inc covers).// //Front, Ian Dury Songbook, Wise Publications, 1979. 12" x 9", 68pp (inc covers).// In 1979 pop songbook...
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Barney Bubbles exhibition opens on Saturday
This Saturday (May 26) sees the opening at Les Subsistances gallery in Chaumont, France, of the exhibition Barney Bubbles: The Past, The Present & The Possible. This is part of the group show...
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Kate Moross’s fabulous video triptych at White Noise
A popular element of the Barney Bubbles exhibition within the recent graphics/music group show White Noise: Quand Le Graphisme Fait Du Bruit was the cubicle housing designer Kate Moross’s Barney...
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Photos from The Past The Present & The Possible: Barney Bubbles exhibition in...
//Photo: R. Pelletier.// //Photo: Pierrick Mouton.// The Past The Present & The Possible was the title of the section in graphics music exhibition White Noise devoted to Barney Bubbles and curated...
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Génération Bubbles! 10-page feature is cover story of French graphics magazine
The work of Barney Bubbles is celebrated in the cover story of the current issue of French graphics and visual culture magazine Étapes. Richly illustrated, Renaud Faroux’s 10-page feature includes an...
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From here to hear: Design for Keith Allen’s unreleased pirate radio station...
//12" x 12" proof, front cover, Programme 1, 1983.// Programme 1 was to be the second release on Utility, the label launched by music business manager Peter Jenner (Ian Dury, Pink Floyd etc) through...
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Pearl Harbour and her Blockhead carrier bag
Thanks to Kosmo Vinyl for digging this out of his archive; a late 70s shot of performer Pearl Harbour strolling along east London’s Bow Road clutching a carrier bag bearing that ubiquitous Barney...
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Barney Bubbles sketches for Justin de Blank
Restaurateur and fine food pioneer Justin de Blank – who died last month aged 85 – was an early champion of Barney Bubbles’ talents. They met at the Conran Group design studio in the mid-60s; as...
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Rare 1975 design comes to light
I am indebted to Melanie de Blank, widow of the late gastronomic pioneer Justin de Blank, for this treasure; a rare copy of a little known Barney Bubbles design, the recipe booklet Feasts by Victor...
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Late period Bubbles: Sleeve and band logo for Sad Café’s 1983 single Keep Us...
//Front, 7″ and 12″ sleeve, Keep Us Together, Sad Café, Charisma, 1983// From the Barney Bubbles grab-bag comes this little-known sleeve for Charisma Records, commissioned by label chief Peter Jenner...
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