Two etchings from Love, Cigarettes and Beer, a suite of 21 text-based prints by the ever morose David Austen.
Archive for July, 2010
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
29 July 2010FILM POSITIVE
27 July 2010A poster of sublime purity, advertising a Roman Polanski film. (Would love to know which one).
SAD SONGS
27 July 2010A great title–Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows–and nice album art for the recently-released John Prine tribute album..
MUSIC BOX
27 July 2010A signed print of Peter Gabriel’s latest album cover, Scratch My Back, part of an elaborately packaged, limited edition (500) box set.
HEART LAND
27 July 2010Banksy, displaying his love for New York in lower Manhattan.
MAGIC MARX
27 July 2010One, in a remarkable series of ads (and a mind-boggling example of brilliant copywriting) by Leo Burnett for Luxor highlighters–where the highlighted areas create an iconic image while weaving a separate, related story within the existing text.
SOVIET UNION
27 July 2010A 1940 fundraising poster by Frederick H.K. Henrion.
EMPTY SKY
27 July 2010PLAYING HOUSE
27 July 2010Pentagram, in collaboration with Leo Burnett, created the widely celebrated House of Cards campaign–with the logo, above, in poster form–for the non-profit organization, Shelter. The campaign won a Gold Lion award at the recent Cannes International Advertising Festival.
RED HOT
26 July 2010When a watering can (by Barber Osgerby) has this much panache, maybe the plants are beside the point.












