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I’ve heard this album, every track a winner, check the cover art and video preview above. www.djformat.com
Design
I love the switch of sides, from Obama to Anonymous, Shepard Fairey has made using the same message. I fully expect a book of all the variants the Hope poster has generated some time down the line, it’s a real iconic image for our age, like Warhol‘s Cambell’s Soup Tins or the Smiley.
Forthcoming this Spring from Damiani. Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel is the first definitive examination of the international language of psychedelia, focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective fields with a deft combination of hundreds of unseen images and exclusive interviews and essays, Electrical Banana aims to revise the common perception of psychedelic art, showing it to be more innovative, compelling, and revolutionary than was ever thought before.
The artists include: Marijke Koger, a Dutch artist responsible for dressing the Beatles; Mati Klarwein, who painted the cover for Miles Davis‘ Bitches Brew; Keiichi Tanaami, the Japanese master of psychedelic posters; Heinz Edelmann, the German illustrator and designer of the Yellow Submarine animated film; Tadanori Yokoo, whose prints and books, defined the ‘60s in Japan; Dudley Edwards, a painter, car designer, and graphic embellisher for the London rock scene, and the enigmatic Australian Martin Sharp, whose work for Cream and underground magazines made him a hippie household name in Europe.
Yes please. €29.00 – Order it here
Illustrator Michael De Pippo created 5 retro posters for each member of the Muppet band Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem in anticipation of the new Muppet film release.
Disney got wind of them and licensed them for sale on their ACME Specialty Art site, some are sold out but a couple are still available. The versions shown here are the original designs with fake creases and misregistered print which didn’t survive for the Disney versions.
It’s a shame because these really give them the sense of original gig posters, also the date of the gig is the date that the Muppets first aired on TV, nice touch.
New Demdike Stare release – ‘Elemental’ on Modern Love. The package is a quadruple sleeve with two gatefold sleeves glued into each other, designed by Andy Votel. The first two 12″s of four are included on orange and purple vinyl.
There’s a podcast based on the release too:
Demdike Stare – Irrational Advice by modernlove
New compilation of tracks on Fat City from the out of print ‘Vintage Voltage’ mix by Andy Votel, one of my favourite mix CDs of recent years. If you like analogue electronics, moogs and vocoders then this is for you.
Absolutely love this cover, from the 70’s font to the kaleidoscoped imagery. Now-Again do it again, more beautifully packaged and immaculately researched music unearthed, this time from India. I don’t know anything about them but you can read, see and hear more HERE.
Via the Daily Diggers site: available as a T-shirt, A2 print and postcard from the Madina shop
Toby from New Analog Posters in Manchester contacted me to show these great posters they screen print for live music events in Manchester. You can buy all these and more – they have a Hammer Horror Music project which is a first for me – at their store newanalog.bigcartel.com. They also have a blog here with some content dear to my heart.
I’ve had this for years, the pages tear out and you can put them on your turntable and trip out. The book has a pre-punched spindle hole through the middle and info on each of the optical illusions and who created them. Coming in handy for the planetarium show…
Really like these, found them whilst looking for something else. Six reissued books by neurologist Oliver Sacks that all work as lovely individual designs or make up one big one. Don’t know who the designer is but well done.
Lush.
Want.
Now.
etc.
This lovely design was made by Stefanie Posavec, showing the length of cassette tape needed to record Kraftwerk‘s ‘Computer World’. Originally made as a one off for a friend’s club night she’s finally made them for sale.
It’s available as a 915 x 700mm 2-colour litho print (the yellow is fluorescent) on 300gsm, on Challenger Offset paper in a signed edition of 200. You can get it here and 25% of the profits go to the Ganet’s Adventure fund that helps a small primary school in Milawi.
I never saw this before but was made aware of it by Nabil over at 3 Nipples Music (yes you read that right). It’s the Criterion issue of the Monkees‘ classic ‘Head’, unfortunately it only seems to be available as part of the America: Lost and Found box set and not as a standalone disc. My own ‘Head’ rescore is still online over at Internet Archive but who knows how long that will stay up.
That’s my kind of house, plucked from the ever-random King Megatrip blog.
Remi / Rough has just done the cover for the Scraffer yearbook (those nice people who do the DJ Food x Henry Flint posters) which has interviews and photos with lots of artists including D*Face, Invader, Luke Insect, Pure Evil, Toasters as well as Remi himself. It’s an A5 book which has been randomly signed by some of the artists who were all asked to sum up 2011 in their own words. Even better is the fact that all proceeds from the £10 price tag go to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Snap one up here. 
Remi’s also just finished the cover for another project closer to home that I’ll be able to reveal soon but before that he’s off to Miami to take part in the Art Basel show for Graffuturism.
More incredible sculptures – this time by Stéphane Halleux – whose work I discovered when I was intrigued by a flyer for his current exhibition at Maison d’Ailleurs, Pl. Pestalozzi 14, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
The incredible Augustine Kofie returns to the White Walls gallery in San Francisco this weekend for a new show of 30 works called ‘Circulatory System’. This guy has to be one of my favourite artists full stop. Nice to see some of the big bag of Letraset I gave him on his visit to London earlier this year getting some use too. 
These pictures mostly taken from the excellent Graffuturism blog
My good friend Steve Cook has been going through his drawers and cupboards (and believe me he has a lot) and finding loads of ephemera from his days working as a designer for 2000ad, Dr Who, Starburst and many more. I know for a fact that he’s got tons of other interesting bits and bobs in his collection so take a look if the miscellania of comic history is your bag. The Secret Oranges title is a play on the Secret Origins series’ so beloved by comics publishers.
The gorgeous Ghost Box 7″ Study Series continues with a double header from Pye Corner Audio with The Advisory Circle – out in two weeks, pre-order it here.
