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Test card mug

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Test card mug

Back in the days before we had hundreds of channels of TV available 24 hours a day, the test card was a familiar sight. This test card mug features what was perhaps the most commonly remembered test card, the one showing a girl playing noughts and crosses with clown.

Officially known as test card F, it was first broadcast in 1967 and this version was used on the BBC until 1999. It's also been spoofed many times, by everyone from Johnny Vegas to The Mighty Boosh. 

Perfect for supping from while you watch the telly, the mug costs £6.46.

Buy it from Make International

Categories / Art and Photography, Film and TV, Kids

Saturday Mornings in the 80s paper cut

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Cut Out Paper 80s

Most paper cuts seem to focus on folk and whimsical imagery so this piece, titled Saturday Mornings in the 80s, makes a nice change. Full of weird and wonderful shapes, look at bit closer and you realise its made of the silhouettes of some of the Eighties best known TV characters ranging from He-Man and She-Ra to Postman Pat and Rainbow Brite.

The piece is limited to twenty and is made by laser cutting, based on a hand-drawing. It's the work of London based company Cut Out Paper who also sell a cut based on classic twentieth-century chairs, should your taste be slightly less nostalgic. 

It sells for £75 unframed or £130 framed. You can contact them to order through their website or go through their Etsy store.