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

//Left: Poster, 30 x 20″, one of a series of four, for Generation X residency at The Marque, Soho, London, September 1977. Right: Poster, 60 x 40″, one of a series of five for Stiff Records package tour of UK, October/November, 1977. Design (c) Barney Bubbles Estate//

//Installation view of Making Music Modern dominated by Bubbles’ Costello poster. Also note his Do It Yourself sleeve and Generation X poster. Photo: John Wronn//

New York’s Museum Of Modern Art is featuring seven works by the late graphics maestro Barney Bubbles in the current exhibition Making Music Modern: Design For The Eye & Ear.

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Tags: Almost Blue, Billy Bragg, Colin Fulcher, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Generation X, High FIdelity, Ian Dury, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Johnny Moped, Making Music Modern: Design For The Eye & Ear, MoMA, Museum Of Modern Art, Philip Johnson's Architecture & Design Galleries, The Marquee