Barney Bubbles

Category: Ian Dury & The Blockheads

  • The Barney Bubbles Jewellery Shop is good to go!

    We’re really pleased to announce that after months of tests and tweaking we’re launching the Barney Bubbles Jewellery range!

    Click on the image above to check out the Barney Bubbles Jewellery Shop featuring the exciting launch collection consisting of a baker’s dozen of pieces including badges, brooches, pendants and earrings.

    These are based on the design maestro’s stunning artworks for a range of artists from space rock through punk and new wave, including Dr Feelgood, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Nick Lowe, Hawkwind, Johnny Moped, John Cooper Clarke, Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Rockpile.

    We’ll be featuring the stories behind individual pieces here over the coming weeks, with insights into the origination of each design and the ways in which it has been realised in 3D.

    Prices range between £25 and £120 for the Barney Bubbles jewellery collection, which is shipping worldwide and is a collaboration between the Barney Bubbles Estate and sculptor/jeweller Blaine Hurdle.

    Check out Blaine’s work here.

  • Norman Maslov on The Wild World of Barney Bubbles on Youtube

    Artists’ agent and passionate music lover Norman Maslov has posted a 10 minute journey through The Wild World of Barney Bubbles on his Youtube channel, augmented by examples of original and reissue record sleeve and poster designs from his collection.

    Watch above and here.

  • The first copy of A Box of Bubbles is in…. and it looks amazing

    ++ A Box of Bubbles is housed in this impressive 25 x 30cm casing decorated with one of Barney Bubbles’ most familiar artworks, for Ian Dury & The Blockheads’ 1978 single Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ++
    ++ The box contains a copy of The Wild World of Barney Bubbles with a different hard cover jacket from the regular version ++

    Very exciting – the first advance copy of A Box of Bubbles has arrived… and it looks amazing.

    ++ The boxed version of Wild World also has different end-papers based on patterns produced for Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1979 LP Armed Forces ++

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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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  • A Box Of Bubbles giveaway!

    In collaboration with specialist imprint Volume we’re giving away a copy of the forthcoming special limited edition A Box of Bubbles on Instagram!

    For your chance to win, head to our post here and follow the rules to enter. The winner will be chosen on April 19th. Good luck!

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