Due to my adoration of vintage fashions, I could easily spend my days poring through pages of those old dressmaking patterns.
Seen as something of a kitsch art form these days, Fred Flare have cleverly rumbled a gorgeous little writing set featuring some vintage inspired designs.
The Hemline Stationery set retails at just $9.95, and it’s going straight on my personal wishlist.
Artist Aaron Foster specialises in found art, that is reusing old things in a new context. His chosen medium is discarded license plates, which he uses to create some amazing pieces of art.
He started off by producing a map of the USA using license plates, but has expanded his range to include images of cars (a fairly natural association) and more surprisingly portraits of rock stars. Pictured here is his Bob Dylan portrait, which if you look at closely, you can see is made up of license plates.
Each one of his pieces is handmade in California and can be bought online from American in XS. The Dylan portrait costs $1,300 (approximately £650)
London’s PYMCA Gallery is celebrating 30 years of club and street culture with Hartnett – 76 < Now, a celebration of the photography of Paul Hartnett.
Using A Nikon camera bought for £10 at a flea market, Hartnett’s work has gone from photographing fans of the Sex Pistols and New Romantics in London through to the likes of Tokyo’s Harajuku Kids, New York’s electro scene and the new rock scene in Paris, appearing in publications including i-D, Dazed & Confused, Tank, Attitude and The Independent Magazine along the way.
The exhibition kicks off on 14th February in a recreation of Leigh Bowery’s 80s club Taboo. You can check it out the PYMCA Gallery at the Vibe Bar, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1.
Ben Nicholson was a pioneering British abstract artist, wife of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth and a member of the St. Ives school of artists from the late 1920s – as well as being the influence behind this Ben Nicholson St. Ives clock.
Influence behind, not designer of – it’s just a clock with an abstract design on the face rather than some kind of reissue. But it’s an eye-catching design with bold colours and a contrasting hands, measuring 190 x 290 x 65mm.
And it’s cheap to buy – just £19.95.
Looking for something a little different for Valentine’s Day? You could share your thoughts with this All You Need Is Love print by Missouri-based designer Douglas Wilson.
It’s available from the Keep Calm Gallery in a limited run of just 55, each signed and numbered by the artist. The print measures 13 x 17.5 inches, all hand letterpressed by Wilson, printed using metallic silver ink on ‘Wild Cherry’ French 100lb. cover-weight paper.
You can pick one up online for £20.
Find out more at the Keep Calm Gallery
The Outre Gallery in Melbourne/Sydney can always be relied upon for interesting retro-styled artwork – and that certainly applies to Niagara, who is returning to the gallery for her From Detroit With Love exhibition.
It’s pop art with an edge from the the artist (and one-time member of art rockers Destroy All Monsters) – think tough women, guns and witty captions pr a darker Roy Lichtenstein if you like.
Alongside original works (including the two above), there will also be limited edition prints to buy – two of which can be pre-ordered now, with another five available at the time of the exhibition. Signed limited edition prints retail for $125 (around £70), which seems like a good investment to us.
The show runs from the 16th February in Melbourne and 23rd February in Sydney. And for the rest of the world, prints can be shipped anywhere.
