Barney Bubbles

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  • Is this 1964 ad for The Muleskinners an early Barney Bubbles design?

    ++ Full-page ad, The Griffon, December 1964. Courtesy Michele Whitby/Eel Pie Musuem ++

    Michele Whitby, who runs the Eel Pie Museum, which is dedicated to the pop cultural history of the tiny island to the west of London, has sent this advert for a 1964 performance by local r&b group The Muleskinners, and wonders whether it is a Barney Bubbles design.

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  • The M!ss!ng L!nk: A great night celebrating Barney Bubbles at Camden Art Centre

    We had a great night last week at north London’s Camden Art Centre celebrating the work of Barney Bubbles with a mini-exhibition of his work in two vitrines, book signings, a playlist of Bubbles-designed music and an in-conversation between monograph author Paul Gorman and printmaker and artist Annie Nicholson aka The Fandangoe Kid.

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  • New Barney Bubbles cards, bookmarks and sticker


    We’re excited to announce the new range of bookmarks and postcards as well as a sticker for the Barney Bubbles Shop.

    ++ The seven postcards each measure 10.5 x 15cm ++

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  • Original artworks sell for £20,000 as Barney Bubbles’ collectability soars

    ++ This 1977 felt tip on paper sketch for the debut album by The Damned together with the stickered limited edition LP fetched £6,120 ++

    The first-time sale of original artworks by Barney Bubbles in yesterday’s Bonhams auction achieved close to £20,000 in total, with one item – the original design for The Damned’s 1977 debut album – scoring a winning bid in excess of £6,000.

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  • Ultra-rare Barney Bubbles artworks on view as Bonhams auction ends tomorrow

    Auction house Bonhams’ sale of ultra-rare and collectible original artworks by Barney Bubbles ends tomorrow at 12noon BST (British Summer Time).

    ++ Artwork for a poster for a 1979 Christmas concert at Birmingham International Arena. Barney Bubbles playfully inserted the name of his friend Cynthia Lole as the promoter ++

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  • The Hamer & Sickle artwork is up for sale

    ++ Barney Bubbles’ ‘Hamer And Sickle’ photography paste-up, 1979. Dimensions: 25.5 x 29.3cm ++
    ++ The four appearances by the logo on the inner and outer sleeves of Nick Lowe’s Labour of Lust LP ++

    The photographic paste-up of one of Barney Bubbles’ most notable designs is among the late designer’s incredibly rare and highly collectible artworks included in the online sale currently being conducted by international auction house Bonhams.

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  • Creativity as catharsis: The M!ss!ng L!nk with The Fandangoe Kid on May 19

    The M!ss!ng L!nk is the title of a celebration of the life and work of Barney Bubbles at London’s Camden Art Centre on May 19.

    There’ll be music, film and visual displays as well as an in-conversation with Paul Gorman, author of the forthcoming monograph of the late graphics genius, and the artist The Fandangoe Kid, whose work hinges on creativity as catharsis.

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  • Exclusive film of the meticulous making of A Box of Bubbles

    Here is exclusive film from the specialist printers which is handling the making of the forthcoming limited edition A Box of Bubbles.

    Just 500 copies of A Box of Bubbles will be published this summer; it contains a unique hard cover version of the new monograph The Wild World World of Barney Bubbles along with a folio of reproductions of the late graphic genius’s most innovative and eye-catching artworks.

     

    As this shows, A Box of Bubbles is presented in a clothbound pink solander box, featuring a screen-printed design taken from Barney Bubbles’ legendary artwork for Ian Dury and The Blockheads’ hit single Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick/There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards.

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  • Accidents Will Happen: The ‘accidental’ single sleeve

    ++ Back of the Accidents Will Happen sleeve ++

    Barney Bubbles’ sleeve for Elvis Costello & The Attractions’ 1979 Radar Records single Accidents Will Happen/Talking In The Dark/Wednesday Week famously took its cue from the title of the lead track by presenting a blank outer with the design on the inside, as if the result of a printer’s error.

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  • The Ridiculous Roadshow mask

    Barney Bubbles first produced the the so-called Ridiculous Mask as an analogue interactive element of music press advertising to promote the Ridiculous Roadshow, Hawkwind’s tour of the UK in the winter of 1973-4.

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