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Pete McKee x Clarks desert boots

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We know absolutely nothing about these, except that the Pete McKee x Clarks desert boots do actually exist.

Yes, a classic desert boot featuring the mod-styled doodlings of Pete McKee, who you may recall from his mod-themed Oasis artwork frokm earlier this year. Check out his website, there’s some great imagery available to buy.

Will they actually hit the shops? Will they come to the UK? Will you actually wear them? How much will they cost? No-one knows right now, but they could be useful as a quirky piece of interior design.

Clarks website

Via Modculture

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Shag’s latest print: Lady Z

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On sale from today, the latest print from Shag (aka Josh Agle) is called Lady Z and it's limited to just 250.

This 12-colour serigraph is sized at 24.5 x 17 inches and is essentially classic Shag – a midcentury scene of decadence as a hip young woman is looked after by three muscle-bound males. Signed by the artist, it sells for $200 while stocks last.

Also available in extremely limited numbers is Four Hands, the drawings of Shag – a catalogue of drawings produced by Shag for his 2007 show in Spain. If you want that, it sells for $39.95 and you can pick it up right here.

Lady Z print at Shagmart

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Modern Design Deck print by Jen Renninger

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Want a quick visual primer on key design icons? Well then you may be interested in this print of Jen Renninger's Modern Design Deck. The deck allocated a celebrated designer and a depiction of one of their famous works to each letter of the alphabet. This print shows 30 of her original illustrations for the deck (yes, some of the letters have more than one designer attached to them) going from A for Aalto to Z for Zeisel. 

This print costs $49. A selection of the designs made for individual letters, including P for Panton and E for Eames, are also available at $25 each.  

Buy it from Century Finds

Categories / Art and Photography, Food and Drink

Andy Warhol Banana sweets

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Andy Warhol's famous Banana has been used on tons of products from bags to watches to dishes but here's a very simple idea I don't think we've covered previously: banana sweets. It's not tricky to work out what it involves – yes, it's the design printed onto a banana-shaped tin that contains lots of little banana-shaped sweets.  

Well, Warhol himself said 'an artist is somebody who produces things people don't need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them' and at £9 it seems a perfect gift (shopping filler?) for fans of his work. 

Buy it from The Lollipop Shoppe

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Jim Flora hand-printed calendars

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We're very find of Jim Flora's midcentury artwork, so one of these Jim Flora hand-printed calendars is almost certain to be on the Retro To Go wall in January 2010.

The official Jim Flora website is offering the calendars in three designs (Swingin' Sax, Boogie-Beat Drummer and Stardust Moon), all originally dating from the mid-1950s.

The calendars, which feature 12 pull-off pages were hand-printed by Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, of Knoxville, and are packaged in clear sleeves, selling for $12.50 (+ shipping) each. If you like the images, but don't need a calendar, the artwork is also available on notecards and as matted letterpress prints.

Find out more at the Jim Flora website

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Takashi Furuya poster range at Illustrated Living

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If you liked the Have a Nice Day London Bus poster we featured earlier in the year, you may be interested to hear that Illustrated Living are stocking a wider range of posters by Takashi Furuya. All his work has a retro feel but while that poster looked like it came from a British artwork tradition, the four posters shown here are made to look deliberately Scandinavian. 

The poster in the top right is another variation on the Have a Nice Day message – this time in Swedish. The top left image represents Love, the poster of the boy with the bottle of drink who looks like he stepped straight from an advert carries the phrase for 'delicious', while (believe it or not) the man in the bottom right shows an optimist. Something to appeal to everyone then!

Each poster costs £14.95 from Illustrated Living