Autumn 2024
New Barney Bubbles shop
Website and online shop
The new Barney Bubbles shop, which will feature apparels and prints and a major collaboration with a leading fashion retailer, is launched soon.
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September 2022
A Box Of Bubbles
Volume
Limited edition box containing book + folio of reproductions
A Box Of Bubbles is the limited edition companion to the Barney Bubbles monograph. Limited to only 500 copies, it is presented in a clothbound pink solander box, featuring a screen-printed design taken from Bubbles’ artwork for Ian Dury and The Blockheads’ smash hit single ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick/There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards’. The outer box design continues into the interior and the book itself, bound in a contrasting white cloth.
Included in the box with the monograph is a folio of exclusive reproductions of selected Barney Bubbles ephemera: a ‘Dome Sweet Dome’ geodesic dome; a make-your-own Glastonbury Fayre pyramid printed on reflective foil stock; a ‘Hankie Pantie’ screen-printed cotton handkerchief; a high-gloss ‘Do It Yourself’ three-colour sticker; and a stunning twenty-one piece reproduction of Bubbles’ ‘Galactic Tarot’ set.
Each edition is numbered and signed by author Paul Gorman.
THIS EDITION IS NOW SOLD OUT
August 2022
Design Freaks episode 51
Podcast
Wild World contributor Clarita Hinojosa talks about her essay for the Wild World of Barney Bubbles and takes a stroll through the book.
Listen here.
Summer 2022
The Wild World of Barney Bubbles
Thames & Hudson
Book
Published around the world, the third edition of the Barney Bubbles monograph is updated and revised and features a 16-page insert of previously unpublished artworks, a new author’s note and postcript and fresh contributions, including an essay by Seattle-based designer and podcaster Clarita Hinojosa. More info here.
June 16 2022
Paul Gorman on why the revolutionary sleeve designer Barney Bubbles should be canonised
Word In Your Attic
Youtube
In conversation
Wild World author Paul Gorman talked Mark Ellen and David Hepworth through the book with a series of Barney Bubbles artworks from Hawkwind’s Space Ritual cover to watercolour portraits for an early 60s Mods & Rockers project.
Watch the episode here.
June 23 2022
A conversation about Barney Bubbles
Walthamstow Rock’n’Roll Club
The Barrel Store
London E17
In conversation + music
The conversation with writer Helen Barrett about Barney Bubbles’ life and work was augmented by visuals and even a 7in vinyl-only DJ set of records with sleeves designed by Bubbles which made for a lively night out…
May 19 2022
The M!ss!ng L!nk: Barney Bubbles
Camden Art Centre
London NW3
In conversation + music
Ahead of the publication of the monograph The Wild World of Barney Bubbles, this evening about the late British designer included an in-conversation between author Paul Gorman and artist The Fandangoe Kid, whose work focuses on creativity as catharsis.
