Archive for July, 2010

CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

29 July 2010


Two etchings from Love, Cigarettes and Beer, a suite of 21 text-based prints by the ever morose David Austen.

FILM POSITIVE

27 July 2010

A poster of sublime purity, advertising a Roman Polanski film. (Would love to know which one).

SAD SONGS

27 July 2010


A great title–Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows–and nice album art for the recently-released John Prine tribute album..

MUSIC BOX

27 July 2010

A 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 2010

Banksy, displaying his love for New York in lower Manhattan.

MAGIC MARX

27 July 2010

One, 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 2010

A 1940 fundraising poster by Frederick H.K. Henrion.

EMPTY SKY

27 July 2010

An uncommonly eloquent poster for the 2006 film, United 93, which documented–in real time–the last minutes of passengers doomed for death in an open field in Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001.

PLAYING HOUSE

27 July 2010

Pentagram, 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 2010

When a watering can (by Barber Osgerby) has this much panache, maybe the plants are beside the point.

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