We’ve made no secret of our love of typography and the Type Map Print is another product to appeal to this infatuation.
The print is a map of the UK, made up of place names cleverly written in different sized fonts to represent the size of the city or town. The print also fits well with the current trend for all things British. It is available in a choice of vintage-looking duck egg blue or classy slate grey and measures 50cm by 70cm.
The print costs £38 from Bodie and Fou.
Vans has put some classic 60s illustration on two of its classic styles as part of the newly-launched Vans x Robert Crumb footwear range.
Take your pick from the classic Fritz the Cat that sits on an (not quite as) classic Vans Slip On or opt for Mr Natural, who first appeared in print back in 1967, but who appears on a pair of Vans Sk8 High for the first time in 2009. Both pairs also feature joint Vans and R. Crumb branding.
Check out the Mr Natural footwear over the page and if you want a pair, check out Colette online, prices from around £64 for what's certainly a limited edition.
We featured some of the artist's prints around 18 months back, but Andy Smith has some new screenprints on the block – including this rather hip Cinema Francais.
Very reminiscent of the Paris '68 street posters, the poster pays tribute to French luminaries of the era, using a style that wouldn't have looked out of place 40 years back either.
A signed, hand-printed screenprint sized at 62cm x 44cm and in an edition of 40 – it's yours for £40.
Fiona Hewitt is the illustrator behind the Dumpling Dynasty whose kitsch kits are for sale throughout the UK (we featured their shoe shine kit early last year). The Boxbird store also has a selection of her prints online, including the Pop print shown above.
The giclee print, a fake advert for a sickly looking pink drink, features an overly cute boy and his loyal donkey and shows her usual beguiling mix of influences: everything from Chinese communist propaganda alongside advertising and packaging from the 40s and 50s. If you decide this look works for you, this particular print costs £200.
Buy it online
Readers of this site will no-doubt be acolytes to the gems that can be found in charity shops. But to get to the treasures, often you have to crawl through a lot of rubbish that looks unlikely ever to find a new home. That's where Emma Harding's Charity Shop Orphans come in. Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected ceramic animals. Apparently on realising these were overrunning her house, she began repainting and re-naming her finds, grouping them into new families.
A selection of her pieces are now on sale through The Shop Floor Project. The pieces are often luridly coloured, the way they're decorated bearing no relation to the original ceramic, and certainly aren't to everyone's taste. However, they are an alternative way of thinking about and trying to create new pieces from otherwise abandoned products. Pieces vary in price but for a rough idea, 'Stella Marie Parmigiani' (the deer pictured above) costs £50.
More information and the range can be seen online
This new Sardana print is another beautiful folk-art inspired design from Roddy & Ginger. It combines dancing figures, similar to those shown in their 'folkdance' print, with a view of the rooftops and towers of a Spanish village.
As well as the suitably Mediterranean orange/tan colour combination shown above it's also available in dark teal/olive. The print is sold unframed for £40.
See it online
