Letter from Ian Dury to Roberta Bayley
Ian Dury sent this letter to Roberta Bayley in May 1977. As the late songsmith’s biographer Will Birch explains here, Dury was just a few months away from achieving nationwide fame.
Author: Paul Gorman
Gore Vidal by Hedi Slimane
This is Gore Vidal’s Olivetti Lettera, one of a series of photographs of the great man of American letters, as well as some of the artefacts in his study, by Hedi Slimane.
Andy Warhol’s Heat: Days Of Steam
The piece underscoring this trailer for the Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey 1972 production Heat is John Cale’s Days Of Steam, from his album The Academy In Peril.
BeatBooks 56: Burroughs
A brown envelope I’m always glad to receive is that containing the latest BeatBooks catalogue. Each quarter the arrival of the 8″ x 6″ booklet soon results in the tapping out of the url of the online order form for Andrew Sclanders’ site. And the catalogues are treasurable in their own right. Over the last […]
“It ain’t the Sistine Chapel…”
I heartily (groan…) recommend Alistair Sooke’s half-hour radio documentary on Milton Glaser’s I ♥ NY logo. Glaser is interviewed, as are Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller among others.
The joys of Letterheady
According to Letterheady.com’s Shaun Usher, the adjective “letterheady” describes the feeling of being overcome by emotion at a strong letterhead design.
New age of plunder
Over on the Barney Bubbles Blog I’ve posted a piece about this design for the Blockhead EP by Punks Jump Up. See here.
A personal loss and the rash of suicides among young gay individuals in the US has prompted the creation of a two-sided poster as the latest project by art collective 2-UP . No More Suicides is a collaboration between Adam Shecter (who founded 2-UP last year with partner Joe Winter) and poet Matthea Harvey, who […]
Beat This: A Hip Hop History
Excerpt from 1983 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip Hop History.
Blessed & Blasted: You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know What Side Of The Bed You’ve Been Lying On! 10.1974
Sixty years after Blast, the You’re Gonna Wake Up t-shirt adopted the same truculent tone and diffuse dialectic to ring the alarms amid a culture rendered flaccid by the failure of the 60s dream. You’re Gonna Wake Up – which went on sale in SEX in the late autumn of 1974 – was conceived by […]