We often shy away from Beatles merchandise as it can be tacky or just too ubiquitous, but these Vintage 1968 Submarine Posters are neither.
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Randall and Hopkirk: Deceased poster set by Piper Gates Design
A pretty productive week for Piper Gates Design. Not content with producing the Stone Roses colouring book, they have also offered up these new Randall and Hopkirk: Deceased posters.
eBay watch: Vintage Cuban movie posters
Something a little different for our eBay pick today – although there's no denying that these vintage Cuban movie posters are incredibly eye-catching.
Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern posters for the Design Museum by Tom Rowe
Many of the most iconic designs from everyday life are the work of one man – designer Kenneth Grange. In fact, his work is currently being celebrated by the Making Britain Modern exhibition at the Design Museum in London, with some interesting artwork by Tom Rowe to go alongside it.
Grange has designed everything from the Intercity 125 train to the Morphy Richards iron, with the pick of those designs making it into poster form the exhibition. The Intercity 125 train (A3 size) and Kodak Instamatic 233 (A3 size) are above, with the Reuters keyboard (A3) and a collage of leading designs (A1) featured over the page.
Available at the Design Museum Store, prices are from £15.
Find out more at the Design Museum Store
Via Switched On Set
Update: There's a piece on Kenneth Grange and the exhibition in The Observer here.
Beauty Is In The Street book – A Visual Record of the May ’68 Paris Uprising
There was a hugely-expensive, extremely limited edition book about the subject a couple of years back. Thankfully, the Beauty Is In The Street book, also known as A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising, is more affordable and plentiful.
The subject matter is the May 1968 student protests in Paris, which also spread to factories and other workplaces to create a general strike that brought the country to a standstill. Among the students were a group called the Atelier Populaire, which produced hundreds of posters to encourage the protestors and to report on police brutality.
This book reproduces over 200 of these iconic posters, as well as featuring a number of photographs, many published for the first time and translations of first-hand accounts of the clashes between the students, strikers and the police. 272 pages and published by Four Corners Books, this hardback book is available for £25.
Find out more at the Amazon website
Going Places kids rug from Designers Guild
This Going Places rug from Designers Guild is another example of a kid's design that's as desirable for adults too.
It's a colourful design, intended to capture the hustle and bustle of transport in a busy place. That translates into simple outlines of cars and trains, set amongst the backdrop of cars and mountains. Both the subject matter and the treatment of the design are reminiscent of classic transport posters.
Made from acrylic and measuring 120 x 170cm, the rug costs £195.
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