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Maria Holmer-Dahlgren cards from IKEA

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If you're a regular reader of this site, you'll instantly recognise the art on these cards from IKEA as the handy work of Maria Holmer-Dahlgren. 

We're quite infatuated with her Pop art style designs, be they for London or Stockholm. These cards feature five of your favourite Swedish cities, all depicted in her trademark style. Perfect for framing and adding instant colour to your home. 

Best of all is the price, as a pack of all five designs costs just £2.50.  

The cards are available in-store only, you can find out more details on the IKEA website

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Jonny Hannah’s Loomings, Coffin and Scrimshaw print set

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Do you remember The Captain's Pattern fabric Jonny Hannah designed for St Jude's Gallery and we featured a little while back? Well, the artist has used that fabric's retro, seafaring imagery for his Loomings, Coffin and Scrimshaw print set. 

Each set includes 16 prints, each reproducing a different vignette used for the fabric, such as the tattoo-style love heart shown above. Also contained in each set is an introduction by the artist. Limited to 50 editions, if you like the nautical flavour of these prints better pick one up quickly.

A set costs £75. 

Buy it from St Jude's Prints

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London in Letters Canvas

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London in Letters Canvas should appeal to London lovers as well as anyone interested in typography. The canvas is a montage of photographs of words seen around London.

Street signs for iconic locations such as Carnaby Street, Camden Lock and the Old Bailey are mixed with tube,road and venue signs,  commemorative plaques and colourful graffiti, which gives it a slightly eighties look. The square canvas is available in four sizes, 41cm priced £69, 61cm for £125, 76cm for £199 and 101cm for £299. The latter two sizes are limited editions so are numbered.

Buy the London in Letters Canvas from Mooch.

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Nelson print by Blue Ant Studio

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It's been a while since we featured Blue Ant Studio on this site. They're the design studio behind pieces like the Alphabet of Modern Classics and they've turned their attention to another modern design classic with this Nelson print. 

Unsurprisingly the Nelson title refers to George Nelson and the print features a simplified version of his Spike Clock. Measuring just over 43cm high, the distinctive outline of the clock is played off against the bold colour of the print and gives a striking result. And, of course, it's more affordable than the real thing. 

The print costs $50 for international orders including shipping. 

Buy it online

Categories / Art and Photography, Gadgets and Tech

Retro-styled Pentax Optio H90 digital camera now heavily discounted at Comet

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Cheers to Riz for flagging up this little bargain – the Pentax Optio H90 camera we featured at the start of the year is now much discounted in the Comet sale – making it a tempting little deal.

Unfortunately, it's the black and silver one above, not the really eye-catching orange and silver version that also launched back then. Oh well, you can't have everything. But we still love the Braun-like looks of this Dieter Rams-inspired design and the fact that those throwback looks are matched by a set og high-end features – 12.1-megapixel sensor, 5x wide angle optical zoom, a 2.7-inch LCD, 720p HD video recording, face detection, smile capture, blink detection, shake reduction and plenty of auto settings.

It was originally on sale for £150, but now you can bag one for £79.99. Like we said, a little bargain.

Find out more at the Comet website

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New limited edition Shag prints: Birds and Cats

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Shag has gone back to nature with his latest limited edition prints – Birds and Cats.

Birds is a 10-colour serigraph, sized at 12 x 14 inches and signed and numbered to 250. Cats is a 12-colour serigraph, same 12 x 14-inch size and same number – 250, with all also signed.

Both are available now, $110 for each.

Birds print at the Shagmart website
Cats print at the Shagmart website