Feeling fruity? Take a look at this charming retro-style print Ode to Pears by Lab Partners.
Hand screen-printed using three colours, it's one of many great designs from this San Francisco duo.
Even better is that it's very reasonably priced at $20, plus $8 shipping to the UK, making it an easy way to get one of your five-a-day.
Buy it from Etsy
It's eye-catching from a distance, but the real appeal of the Fontana Modern Masters print by James Pardey is in the detail.
This is op art, 70s-style. Launched in 1970, the Fontana Modern Masters were a series of pocket guides on eminent writers, philosophers and thinkers. Great if you loved deep thinking, but even better if you loved great graphic design, with each book offering up abstract paintings in bright colours, along with distinctive, rounded typography.
Each could be described as a work of art in itself and together, the entire 48-book series is certain to brighten up your room, as well as giving it a retro twist. The poster is printed on high-quality 200gsm paper and will fit a standard 50 x 70cm frame. Find out more about the print and poick one up directly from the artist or grab one from the Design Museum, priced around £24. See a more detail shot of the print over the page.
Most paper cuts seem to focus on folk and whimsical imagery so this piece, titled Saturday Mornings in the 80s, makes a nice change. Full of weird and wonderful shapes, look at bit closer and you realise its made of the silhouettes of some of the Eighties best known TV characters ranging from He-Man and She-Ra to Postman Pat and Rainbow Brite.
The piece is limited to twenty and is made by laser cutting, based on a hand-drawing. It's the work of London based company Cut Out Paper who also sell a cut based on classic twentieth-century chairs, should your taste be slightly less nostalgic.
It sells for £75 unframed or £130 framed. You can contact them to order through their website or go through their Etsy store.
The prolific Shag has yet another work on the market as a limited editon, going by the name of The Relentless Party.
It's the companion piece to Secret Cul-De-Sac, which was produced in limited numbers last year. This 60s-inspired party piece is also a limited edition of 150, as well as being a 22-colour serigraph that's sized at 22 x 54 inches, signed and numbered by the artist.
The price is $400, while stocks last. Which usually isn't long.
Find out more at the Shagmart website
Via Modculture
In our formative years (well, 2006 to be precise), we covered the Design Museum's retrospective of influential 20th century graphic designer Alan Fletcher. If you missed that and happen to be in the Manchester area, you can check out Alan Fletcher: Fifty years of graphic work (and play) at Manchester's Cube.
Described as ‘one of the giants of 20th Century design’ by the Guardian, Fletcher's work touched all areas, creating brand identities for everyone from Pirelli to the V&A, not to mention giants like Penguin, Reuters and Shell, as well as transforming book design as consultant art editor to Phaidon Press.
Vogue is well known for its heritage in mapping changing fashions. Couple that with a touch of French style and this book, Paris Vogue: Covers 1920–2009, is tantalizing prospect.
It's been written by Sonia Rachline with foreword by current French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and, over its 208 pages, it illustrates shifting trends in both clothing and magazine design. There masses of famous faces that show up, from photographers like Man Ray or Guy Bourdin, to cover stars like Twiggy, Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn.
A great book to sit and flick through, it costs just £14.22 from Amazon
