A Box Of Bubbles is the special edition of the forthcoming book The Wild World of Barney Bubbles.
KRAŜO! 3: Nostalgio Por La Jeto-Aĝo estas skatolo de lertaĵoj *
Dec 6th, 2018
The third edition of Scott King and Matt Worley’s CRASH! has arrived. Entitled Nostalgia For The Jet Age, it is an “exhibition in a box” which coincides with an actual exhibition of the same name currently being held at Scotland’s Timespan.
Barney Bubbles x Fred Perry: Shirts available, exhibition opens + interview and playlist online
Aug 6th, 2017
The Barney Bubbles x Fred Perry shirts are available to buy now online; click on the image above to find out more.
Barney Bubbles x Fred Perry: This year’s most exciting street-style collab
Jul 24th, 2017
The countdown is on to this years’s most exciting street-style collaboration: the limited edition Barney Bubbles x Fred Perry collection.
Jasper: Memories of the London fashion label and a Barney Bubbles connection
May 15th, 2017
//But Is It… ART, t-shirt design, Ian Harris for Jasper, 1979//
I’ve dug into collector and graphic artist Ian Harris’s rich archive again and turned up a brace of t-shirts he designed in the late 70s for Jasper, the eponymous London-based fashion label operated by entrepreneur Jasper Hamilton Holmes from showrooms in central London.
Sighting of Barney Bubbles in BBC 1971 doc New Horizons: The Alternative Society
May 27th, 2016
//Barney Bubbles pasting up a page layout at Friends office on the upper floors of 305 Portobello Road, 1971//
//Caroline Coon in interview about Release at the drug charity’s premises at 50a Princedale Road, W11//
The BBC TV documentary The Alternative Society is an intelligent snapshot of London’s Notting Hill-based early 70s counterculture.
Mr Writey-Talkey in conversation with Gary Crowley on his Punk and New Wave radio show
Feb 10th, 2016
//Gary Crowley outside 93 Bell Street, London NW1, the address once occupied by Sex Pistols scenester/designer Helen Wellington-Lloyd, her fellow Goldsmith’s student Malcolm McLaren and Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook//
Interspersed with a personal selection of songs, I talked to DJ Gary Crowley about the new Punk London: In The City 1975-78 map for the second hour of his Punk & New Wave show on Soho Radio yesterday.
Talking Punk London: In the City 1975-78 on Gary Crowley’s Soho Radio show this afternoon
Feb 9th, 2016
This afternoon I’m the guest on DJ Gary Crowley’s show on London-based digital station Soho Radio.
I’ll be talking about Punk London: In The City 1975-78 – my map collaboration with Herb Lester Associates which is published on Friday (February 12) – and also playing a highly personal selection of songs in the spirit of the project where we aim to sidestep the cliches and show another side to the oft-told punk story.
‘A profound influence’: Ian Lynam on Barney Bubbles’ impact on graphic design
May 14th, 2015
//Lynam – just about visible on the right – talks through the extraordinary sleeve design and packaging for Armed Forces, the 1979 album by Elvis Costello & The Attractions//
A film of last month’s celebration of design hero Barney Bubbles by American graphic designer Ian Lynam is now available to view online.
Barney Bubbles’ early 70s drum-head for Quiver
Apr 27th, 2015
//Bubbles’ drum-head for Willie Wilson of Quiver is the centrepiece of this arrangement by artist/designer Steven Thomas of pieces from John Pidgeon’s Poole pottery collection. Photo: John Pidgeon//
This drum-head design by Barney Bubbles for Willie Wilson, sticksman of early 70s folk-rockers Quiver, makes a fine addition to the group of artworks produced in this medium by the late graphics maestro.
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