Category: Art and Photography

The website Three Potato Four have teamed up with designer Jim Datz to produce a series of City posters, which combine vintage typography and 1950s style illustrations.

The Brooklyn Poster is the second in this series and is available as a first edition of 200 prints, each signed by the artist. The first design featured Manhattan, and that is still available, but is now in its second print run which is slightly less exclusive at 500 copies.

The posters cost $48 (around £30) and can be ordered from Three Potato Four.

If culture is high on your list of potential activities this weekend, you might want to get yourself down to Tate Modern in the capital this weekend to check out an infamous piece of art – Bodyspacemotionthings by Robert Morris.

First seen back in 1971 at the original tate, this interactive installation was closed after just four days due to excitable visitors causing damage to themselves exploring it. It's back this time with more adherence to modern health and safety guidelines, with raw, unfinished materials being swapped for materials like plywood and rubber. But care is still required.

If you've got some common sense and a sense of adventure, you can touch, feel, climb, crawl and jump on the large geometric objects and sculptures, with the intention that visitors 'become aware of their own bodies, gravity, effort, fatigue, their bodies under different conditions'. If the weather is poor outside, there can't be many more interesting ways of spending time indoors.

Tate Modern website

At first glance this looks like the movie poster for some lost classic. Look a bit closer and you'll realise it tells another classic story – that of the crooked man with his crooked sixpence, crooked cat and crooked house. Sub-studio have produced a trio of nursery rhyme prints inspired by movie posters, all in this stylish two colour palette. Another of the prints implores 'rain, rain, go away', whilst the final design shows the tale of the wise old owl.  

The prints aren't released until June, but are available on to pre-order on the Sub-studio now for $40 each. 

See them online

The Central Illustration Agency can always be relied upon for new and interesting art, with a good few retro-styled pieces also to be found in the current collection, including this Sarah J Coleman Sky High print.

A bright and bold nature-themed print, with a distinctly retro feel (which for some reason, makes me think of the 1970s). The giclee print is a limited edition of just 20, printed on 100 per cent Somerset enhanced paper, sized at 35 x 48cm.

You can pick one up for £130 delivered.

Find out more at the Central Illustration Agency website

ISO50 posters make great alternatives for anyone who can’t afford original 1960s artwork.

ISO50 is one of the names that renaissance man Scott Hansen goes by, being the name for he uses for his design work, whilst he creates music under the name of Tycho. Whereas his music has a timeless quality to it, his design definitely has a retro look to it.

A selection of ISO50 designs are available as posters priced $17 (around £10) or as framed prints for $40 (around £25) from the ISO50 shop.