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Back Cover Books for The Anchoress' 'The Art Of Losing' Album

Back Cover Books for The Anchoress' 'The Art Of Losing' Album

How I created the back cover books image for The Anchoress' wonderful second album.
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New Prints: Record Cover Price Tag Stickers as Pop Art

New Prints: Record Cover Price Tag Stickers as Pop Art

  There's a new series of prints available on the website. They're enlargements of vintage album cover price tag stickers, with added informati...
New Print: Jean-Luc Godard

New Print: Jean-Luc Godard

This new portrait poster print of the great French film director Jean-Luc Godard is now available on the Standard Designs website.
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New Print: Punk Piano Chords Music Poster

New Print: Punk Piano Chords Music Poster

A look at the historical basis in fanzine history for our new punk music poster print.
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Okay Paris

Okay Paris

This print, which went up in the shop a few weeks ago, is a bit of a development on from my Middle Class Protest posters. Where those are against...
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'Bacon en toutes lettres' at Centre Pompidou, Paris

'Bacon en toutes lettres' at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Visiting the Pompidou Centre's show of late-period Francis Bacon paintings.
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Unpublished Prints

Unpublished Prints

An ongoing series showing the prints you didn't get to see.
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Work In Progress

Work In Progress

Images from the studio, late September 2019.
Félix Vallotton at the Royal Academy

Félix Vallotton at the Royal Academy

The mini-exhibition of this Swiss artist’s work at the Royal Academy showed his graphic works were better than his paintings.

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HBO's 'Chernobyl' Typography

HBO's 'Chernobyl' Typography

A look into the typography of the HBO/Sky Atlantic miniseries 'Chernobyl'.
"Heroes" - Bowie's 1920s Berlin Movie Career

"Heroes" - Bowie's 1920s Berlin Movie Career

What happens when you fold artistic output and artistic influences back in on themselves?
Mozart & Me

Mozart & Me

A lucky bookshop find takes us back to the 1770s and the 1960s.
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