Fans of the distinctive graphic design of Clifford Richards will be pleased to hear Elphicks is stocking some of his original prints from the early 70s.
Dating to 1972, the prints depict a range of different birds, delineated in simple, bold lines and colours. As well as the toucans illustrated, there are also designs showing owls, swallows, flamingos and parrots.
The prints cost £275 each.
Buy them online
Opening today at London's Somerset House is a new exhibition called Dior Illustrated. Subtitled René Gruau and the Line of Beauty it looks at the work of illustrator René Gruau who created iconic fashion imagery for Dior in the 1940s and 50s.
Gruau worked for some of the most famous couture houses and style magazines of the period but is best known for his collaboration with Christian Dior, for whom he created the marketing images for Dior's first perfume, Miss Dior, in 1947. The exhibition includes some of his illustrations for Dior parfums, alongside the original bottles. Gruau's fashion illustration remains influential today and there's the opportunity to see some of his sketches, alongside some of the haute couture dresses that inspired them, providing a glamorous snapshot of the era.
The exhibition runs until 9 January. Tickets cost £6, with concessions at £5.
Find out more online
Some of you might recall the vintage-style London maps by Herb Lester Associates we featured a short while back. Well, Herb Lester Associates are back to take us on another trip, this time back in time with the Wish You Were There map.
It's a map of central London boutiques, coffee bars, clubs and other diversions that were around between 1960 and 1966. There are 130 entries, each with a street address and description, ranging from the obvious names – The Flamingo, Marquee, Scene for example to lesser known places like Roger Roger, Wild West Won and Fireman Jack. All addresses have been checked using contemporary sources such as magazines, music papers, and Kellys directories. So if you want to know exactly where on Old Compton Street Sportique was, it's now as flipping out your map.
This map is bigger than previous maps at A2, so the price is a little more too. Saying that, you can pick this one up for just £4 including postage, which is a real bargain. Another image over the page.
Find out more at the Herb Lester Associates website
Via Modculture
Remember the Mona Lisa Revamp print we featured a couple of months back? Now, the designer, Graphic Nothing, has turned their attention to classic album covers.
Pictured here is the Velvet Underground Remix, but Thriller, Technique and Nevermind have also received a similar treatment, with their designs reduced to a series of coloured dots. The prints measure 29cm squared and cost £25 (£28 including postage within the UK)
See the full range and buy online from Counter Objects.
A great take on three of the world's great cities, courtesy of Bianca Gomez and her prints of London, Paris and New York.
Each print depicts a different city in the style of a classic travel poster. While the simple elements are the same in each image – a man in the city, the name of the place running across the print – she manages to inject a bit of personality into each scene. The New York print, for example, looks like its come straight off the cover of a vintage New Yorker magazine, while the London print cleverly uses the font traditionally used for the capital's transport system. The Paris print is suitably full of Gallic charm.
Each print is A4 sized and you can buy them individually for $30 each, or $75 for a set of three. Alternatively you can get larger individual prints for $60 each.
Buy them from Bianca Gomez's Etsy store
London's landmarks have provided inspiration to artists over hundreds of years. Kate McLelland's London Skyline print offers another take on the capital.
This striking design was recently awarded second placed in the London Transport design competition and the Edinburgh based illustrator has drawn on folk styles for her depiction, adding a fairytale quality to landmarks like the BT Tower and the Gherkin, as well as to traditional London sights like red phone boxes and double decker buses. The print is depicted in the patriotic colours of red, white and blue.
The print is limited to 41 copies and costs $50.
Buy it from her Etsy store
