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Categories / Art and Photography, Film and TV

Retro Scandinavian Style Star Wars Poster

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Czech Republic-based graphic designer Jan Skácelík has created this great Retro Scandinavian Style Star Wars Poster.

He has taken elements of the original film, Episode IV: A New Hope such as R2D2, a Stormtrooper helmet and a lightsaber, and recreated them in a midcentury style. The poster is available in either yellow or red and in A3 or A2 size. There is also an Empire Strikes Back poster in a similar style, but no Return of the Jedi or  tributes to the more recent trilogy, which Ewok-haters and purists might approve of. 

The A3 size poster costs approximately £12 from Etsy.

Categories / Art and Photography, Music

Elvis Paper Doll Print

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Claudia Varosio’s best known work are her illustrated film posters, but she also has a small collection of paper doll prints, including this Elvis Paper Doll Print.

The print features a cartoon Elvis in his pants and vest surrounded by a selection of his most famous costumes (including a white jumpsuit), all with little tabs on them like paper doll outfits. The print measures 18 by 12 inches and costs about £12. Other prints in the range include David Bowie, Edie Beale (from the classic documentary Grey Gardens) and Clint Eastwood.

Buy them online from Claudio Varosio’s Etsy store.

Categories / Art and Photography

Sir Peter Blake: Twenty Years of Printmaking in Harrogate

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A regular around the capital, Sir Peter Blake is seen much less 'up north'. So the Sir Peter Blake Twenty Years of Printmaking exhibition in Harrogate, Yorkshire is well worth an entry in your diary if that's where you live.

It takes place at the RedHouse Originals Gallery, 15 Cheltenham Mount, Harrogate from 12th March – 10th April, with previews on Friday 11th March. Sir Peter will be there for that to open the exhibition, as will the double decker CCA Art Bus with Blake exterior. There will also be the unveiling of a new portrait and print edition called Boogie For Stu, featuring Ian Stewart, the legendary keyboardist and co-founder of The Rolling Stones.

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Categories / Art and Photography, Toys and Games

Ninety Nine Invaders and a Spaceship Print

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There has been a glut of space invaders-inspired products around recently, but if you are still feeling nostalgic for the early arcade game, then you may like the Ninety Nine Invaders and Spaceship Print by Peters and Janes.

The print consists of a repeat print of a white space invader (presumably 99 of them, but I haven’t had time to count) plus one spaceship amongst their rows. The print is available in either orange or grey, framed or unframed.

The print costs £25 unframed or £65 framed from Peters and Janes via Not on the High Street.

Categories / Art and Photography

50s Housewife Russian Dolls

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These 50s Housewife Russian Dolls are an unusual twist on the traditional sets of dolls.

The figures are blonde women, who look rather like Mad Men’s Betty Draper, doing a succession of housewife chores, including serving a roast diner, brushing her children’s hair, ironing (whilst drinking a cocktail), dusting and applying lipstick. The dolls were created by artist Yana Elkassova, taking inspiration from her Russian heritage and using it to humorously show ideas of womanhood.

The dolls cost £180 from Eye Storm, a price that reflects their status as a piece of art, rather than a toy.

Categories / Art and Photography, Travel

Where The Sidewalk Ends: How to find old New York vintage-style map by Herb Lester Associates

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Remember this really cool London Print by Jim Datz at Pedlars? Well, the same artist is behind the latest Herb Lester Associates vintage-style map, going by the name of Where The Sidewalk Ends: How to find old New York.

Yes, following on from the likes of the 1960s London, You Are Here and May We Help You? maps, this is the firsr trip outside the Uk, with Datz providing the vintage-style imagery for what's described as 'a guide to the New York you’ve always wanted to see but feared might have disappeared for good'.

Expect Edward Hopper diners and down-at-heel dive bars, overstocked grocery stores and mountainous pastrami sandwiches. From Patsy’s Pizzeria in Harlem, to the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown, taking in along the way Katz's, the '21' Club and McSorley's Old Ale House to name just a few places. It is A3 (297x420mm) folded to A6 (105x148mm), and litho printed on recycled paper. Price? Just £3.

Find out more at the Herb Lester website