A Box Of Bubbles is the special edition of the forthcoming book The Wild World of Barney Bubbles.

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Tags: Do It Yourself, Galactic Tarot, Glastonbury Fayre, Hankie Pantie, Hawkwind, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, IT, Revelations, There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards, X In Search Of Space

The Barney Bubbles x Fred Perry shirts are available to buy now online; click on the image above to find out more.

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Tags: "Smart" Mart Cole, Alfalpha, Do It Yourself, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, Fred Perry, Hawkwind, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Inbetweenies, Kate Moross, Nick Lowe, Olivier Mahieu, The Muleskinners

The countdown is on to this years’s most exciting street-style collaboration: the limited edition Barney Bubbles x Fred Perry collection.

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Tags: 4000 Weeks' Holiday, Armed Forces, Billy Bragg, Cracking Up, Depeche Mode, Do It Yourself, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, Hawkwind, Henrietta Street, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Ian McLagan, Nick Lowe, Rob Tufnell, Rolling Stones, Sir Peter Blake, Small Faces, The Faces, The Specials

//Selection of poster prints Graham Wood made for Magick Is Freedom! (After Barney Bubbles)//

Best known as one of the founders of British design collective Tomato, Graham Wood chose a 1968 poster for underground magazine Oz as the wellspring for a series of 24 poster prints.

I corresponded with Wood about the ways in which the original artwork- made by Barney Bubbles and his 60s design partner David Wills with a team of contributors – sparked inspiration for the two dozen A0-size posters, which were exhibited in Stockholm in November 2012.

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Tags: David Wills, Do It Yourself, Existence Is Unhappiness, Graham Wood, Hawkwind, In Search Of Space, malcolm Garrett, My Aim Is True, neville Brody, New Boots & Panties!!, Oz, Peter Saville, Scarlett Gallery, Tomato, Vaughan Oliver

//Dany Bubbles, 1963-66. Pencil and acrylic, 29" x 20" (framed)//

I sourced one of the paintings which is in More Than Fair, the exhibition of Ian Dury’s artworks which opens at his alma mater, London’s Royal College of Art, next month.

Dury gave the ultra-Pop Dany Bubbles to his friend and designer Barney Bubbles in the late 70s during their spell of collaboration which resulted in a series of triumphs: single sleeves such as Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, What A Waste and Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, the 28 wallpaper covers of the album Do It Yourself, the Blockhead logo…

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Tags: Blockhead logo, Do It Yourself, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Ian Dury, Jemima Dury, Jules Balme, Kosmo Vinyl, London Life, Royal College Of Art, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Tony Bennett, What A Waste, Will Birch

Can of Biba own-brand baked beans. Packaging design: Whitmore-Thomas Partnership, 1973.

Chelsea Space director Donald Smith has invited me to contribute items from my design collection to his forthcoming show Ideal Home, which features the work of more than 50 artists and designers spanning 1913 to 2011.

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Tags: Biba, Chelsea Space, Damien Hirst, David Bowie, Do It Yourself, Donald Smith, Ian Dury, Ideal Home, Jane Ashley, laura Ashley, London Design Festival, Lucian Freud, Mark Titchner, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Wentworth, Roy Lichtenstein, Steve Howard, Tim Whitmore