Some time back, we highlighted the rather cool wall signs featuring Sir Peter Blake's I Love London and I Love Recycling design. Well, even better, there are now giant metal prints of the designs available – but in very limited numbers.
Printed onto recycled tin (to fit in with the theme), each one is signed and numbered by the artist, with the London print limited to 75, while the Recycling print is in a run of just 25, both sized at 62 x 81cm – the largest tin prints Blake has ever produced.
Something of a coup for us here – we have a first, straight from the studio, look at a print from the forthcoming In the Long Run: 30 Years of the Great North Run series, the work of Sir Peter Blake.
As part of a collaboration between Bupa Great North Run Culture and Opus Art, Sir Peter Blake is producing a portfolio of 10 limited edition prints which will celebrate 30 years of the Great North Run as well as the heritage of running. The images will be on display at an exhibition at the Great North Museum from 17th July – 17th October 2010, with editions of the prints for sale exclusively through Opus Art.
This print courtesy of Some Prints illustrates an iconic piece of British design, the red telephone box.
The digital print reduces the box to its simple, no-fuss form. Some Prints is a collective of North West Britain based graphic artists who have also turned their hands to depicting other images like telephone, flowers and camper van in the same simplified form.
One of an edition of 25, this print costs just £10.
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It's a message that never loses its importance and must have been said in hundreds of different ways over the years, not least in this unusual 1930s Keep Your Teeth Clean print.
The striking design looks quite contemporary but in fact was designed in 1938 in America to promote good oral hygiene. The poster has been selected from the images in the massive archive of the Library of Congress and reproduced by a company called Wallblank. Take a look at their selection of 'vintage' prints for more images in this line, alongside more familiar wartime designs and the See America range of posters.
The print costs between $14 and $24 depending on the size required.
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The Ace of Spades print is a piece of art that should appeal to fans of Lemmy and Motorhead (as well as any poker players).
It has been created by Tom Shone, whose retro camera print we featured a few weeks ago. The print measures 70cm by 100cm and has been digitally printed using archival inks on heavy archival quality paper.
It costs £59 unframed and can be bought online from Rockett St George.
With weather this warm, the sensible thing seems to be to try and head to the coast. This Let's Go Crabbing print, available at Coastal Creatives, is perfect for the summer, celebrating the Great British seaside resort and one of its great traditions.
The hand-pulled screen print shows a nostalgic image of a sign advertising crabbing. The image is saved from being too twee by the bright red print. The same series of prints also includes signs selling ice creams and other tasty goodies or advertising surf hire. Everything you need to recreate that holiday feel at home.
The print comes unframed and costs £36.
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