Three exhibitions that have recently opened in London, all highly recommended, tickets are timed on the Escher and Cosmonauts ones so book ahead. Unfortunately no photography is allowed at any of them otherwise this post would have been full of images. The Escher has 6 rooms stuffed with originals pencils sketches, litho and woodblock prints and even some original finished illustrations plus other ephemera and the gift shop content is compact but enticing.

The Cosmonauts exhibition has original and mock-up vehicles, pods, landers, sputniks, all forms of space suit and space wear as well as films, artwork, propaganda and more. The gift shop is so overwhelmingly stuff with Soviet art and design it’s hard not to want to walk out with half of it. The Eames I’ve not visited yet but plan to soon…