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My next book, The Wild World of Barney Bubbles, is published around the world this summer by Thames & Hudson. This is the enhanced and revised third edition of my monograph of the late graphic artist, who died in 1983 and would have been 80 this year.
Today I’ve launched a page on this site for the Estate of the late radical graphic artist and designer Barney Bubbles. I represent the Estate and its hundreds of original artworks. We have some exciting activity coming up, including the loving recreation of one of Bubbles’ most striking designs for a very special reissue on […]
In November 1971, design legend Barney Bubbles produced a typically audacious promotional item for Hawkwind’s recently released album X In Search Of Space.
Thanks to my FB friend Vadim Kosmos for alerting me to this (I am not keen on Star Wars so avoid media coverage): a reference in the latest film in the franchise, The Last Jedi, to the Barney Bubbles/Jake Riviera advertising campaign for Elvis Costello And The Attractions’ 1979 LP Armed Forces. In The Last […]
You wait years for a Barney Bubbles exhibition and then two come along in the space of a month. On the heels of the mini-show of Barney Bubbles music designs at Fred Perry’s basement space in Covent Garden comes a different take on the work of the late graphics maestro.
I just had to write and tell you how much I love the book that has just been published. Your work really cascades over the decades and is utterly real and convincing. Extract of email from David Bowie to Derek Boshier, November 2015 I guess it can be told now. David Bowie was at one […]