Category: Art and Photography

Flying ducks – seen adorning many living room walls in the 60s and 70s (most famously in Hilda Ogden’s living room in Coronation Street). And if you want some on your walls, you can ditch the ceramics and get them on this Flying Ducks screen print.

It’s certainly eye-catching, with the white ducks sat on a heavy brown recycled paper that measures 30cm x 52cm. It’s also a hand-pulled screen print, available as a limited edition of just 90,

You can pick it up online for £20 – frame not included.

Find out more at the Keep Calm Gallery

The cartoonist Kenneth Cyril Bird signed himself Fougasse, after an unpredictable type of French landmine. He worked for Punch magazine but he is best known for his propaganda posters produced for the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.

The series of Careless Talk Posters showed Hitler and Goering hiding or in absurd guises to eavesdrop on the public. The posters had a serious message, but typified the British humour in the face of adversity.

Rennies Seaside Modern has several of the original posters in mint condition available for sale, priced £350.

A good art investment and a good way to help a good cause – Sir Peter Blake’s Parade silkscreen print.

It’s a limited edition of 175, made specially for the V&A Museum of Childhood to promote the museum’s re-opening. And all the proceeds from the sale of these prints will go to the Museum’s education and community programmes. And appropriately, the print itself is a marvellously chaotic collage of vintage toys, dolls and puppets.

The image size is 450 mm x 610 mm, the paper size is 604 mm x 780 mm and you can pick one up for £795.

Find out more at the V&A Museum of Childhood website