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(2011-03-24 20:17)
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  讨厌颓废的自己

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发表: 2010-04-07 13:09:40 人气:38 楼主

男人的乳房有什么用?

哺乳,孩子他妈不在时,哄孩子
调情,敏感点,孩子不在时,哄孩子他妈
变性后的备用品,
方便男人变性
给同性恋的备用品
区分正反面
左边给心脏透气用的,右变为了对称左边
给老婆和女朋友捏着玩的
因为母亲的遗传
装饰,纯粹用来装饰品
被掐,别人生气的时候可以掐,高兴的时候也可以捏
潜在市场,可以发展隆胸事业
呼应女人
上帝造的,上帝搞错了
帮助判断体内各器官的大概位置
为了证明男人也能得乳腺癌
摔倒的时候支撑用的。
打仗时用来当盾牌
男人有乳房吗?

哈哈
先投票才能查看结果


 


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区分正反面


  

 央美论坛---共享与交流-回帖是中华民族的传统美德
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摔倒的时候支撑用的。


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哲学让复杂不至于迷茫
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用来得乳腺癌的....

 

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(2010-03-21 15:12)
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 17号那天早上发现被偷,19号凌晨又自己把包丢了,感情上又出了问题,大大小小的事都只为证明四个字,

我很倒霉。

  至于为什么,我觉得不是运气问题,是我最近精神恍惚的原因。

  最近总是喝醉,对感情已经麻木。

  心里想着的人,已经面目模糊。无法给予承诺,在一起反而快乐?

 

  成长中,世界终究会逐一展开,面对广博人间,我们既要勇敢探索,也要懂得自我保护,为不使才华浪掷,要身体外化,也要坚持本真,做到内不化,这样的矛盾总是令人困顿。为着实现这样的自我,现在的我应当做些什么?是静观象牙塔循序崩塌,还是自己勇敢走出去?面对当下的体制,我们又应如何尽量超越却不冲撞?

  

  可是我探索得太多,以致于丢失了对幸福的概念。

 

   而我很少提起幸福两字,也不用它,是因为,它也许不过是幻影,却常在生活里被很多人当作真实传送,并用来自我麻醉。

 

  开始说服自己要相信一些什么,丢掉了曾经现实的生活。 
 

  逐渐失去了欲望,于是我变得麻木不仁。

 

   安妮宝贝曾说:男人不爱女人。他们只是需要女人。

 

  

   的确如此。


 

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   大利亚艺术家Emma Hack可能是受到日本浮世绘的影响,创作了系列作品。其中融入了绘画和摄影两种艺术,使人体与周围的环境融为一体。最形象的莫过于是穿着和服舞扇的那幅(其实设么也没有穿)。每一幅浮世绘的图案都十分精美细致,惟妙惟肖,带有强烈的东瀛风格,让您难分真假,花费了Emma Hack大量的心思。最后用一只身着华丽浮世绘的变色龙结束本系列,意味深远。

 

 

  

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(2009-01-01 17:30)
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Alexander Wang小档案

◆ 亚历山大·王 () 品牌故事:

 国家:美国

创建年代:2004年

 产品类别:女装、男装、包包、手袋及配饰

创始人:亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang)

 公司总部:美国纽约 关于华裔设计师亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang): 从老牌的 Jimmy Choo、Anna Sui、Vera Wang、Vivienne Tam 到新晋红人 Derek Lam、Philip Lim,越来越多华裔设计师在欧美时尚界,特别是美国时尚界大受好评。还不止如此,“华裔设计热”在 Fashion 圈中持续升温,同时,走红设计师也愈发开始低龄化。最近又一个成功典范就是84年出生年仅24岁的亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang),在07年纽约秋冬时装周的亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 秀场上,其作品获得不俗反响。 亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 是出生在旧金山的华裔,18岁时搬去纽约,并在著名的Parsons学院攻读设计专业,亚历山大·王二年级时就在 Marc Jacobs 和 Vogue 实习。《Vogue》美国版的“冰女王”安娜·温图尔 (Anna Wintour) 对亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 很是关照,对他日后在时尚界的发展更有帮助多多,在亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 成立了自己的工作室后,安娜·温图尔 (Anna Wintour) 还亲自去他的工作室给他指导。 从04年开始,亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 创建自己的设计师同名品牌,并发布了05年春夏的女装成衣。在亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 的设计中,对细节的追求是很重要的特色,例如对边沿的处理就非常精细。纽约东区是他的灵感来源之一,玩滑板的年轻人以及他们的女友身上可以找到很多自由精神,亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 喜欢他们的生活方式以及傲然冷漠的态度,并在这种生活态度上得到灵感,设计出自由、不羁的作品。

 无论在亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 设计的女装还是男装身上,都能感觉到亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 对奢华生活的不屑,以及对自身所好的偏执。 除了为这部分年轻人设计服装,亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 还为一些时尚贵宾或明星设计服装,例如当红的偶像派 Rachel Bilson、Victoria Traina、Lindsay Lohan、Mandy Moore、Ashlee Simpson 等,都很亲睐他的服装。 亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 07年春夏的女装成衣,即使Tomboy 的形象也隐藏不了那份甜美的性感。上衣通透、柔滑的面料以及宽松款式,配上简洁的短裤和热裙,塑造出女性简约的性感……在亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 的手中,性感就是来得那么自然与简单!而男装将个性自由、不羁表现得更淋漓尽致。纤细贴身的瘦腿裤,隐藏着穿着者的想法,给人琢磨不透,难以靠近的冷漠感,而上装热情的红色搭配又平衡了这种冷漠感。 07 秋冬时装周上,除了亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 一贯的简洁风格和对开士米 (Cashmere) 面料的娴熟运用外,还展示了他另一面的设计才能:抓住最新流行点, 并以自己的方式诠释表达。虽然在表现力度上还有欠缺,但是对于如此稚嫩的一张脸设计出来的作品已经不能太过苛求了,亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 的衣服在市场上卖得相当好的事实,也说明了他的设计很符合实际生活中消费者的需求。同样类型的亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 品牌服装,甚至比很多大牌都更受欢迎。 时尚界对于如此年轻的设计师的期待总是最大的,《Vogue》、《ELLE》、《BAZAAR》、《WWD》、《Marie Claire》、《LUCKY》等各大权威时尚杂志都对亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 的作品赞赏有加,对他的成长也充满了信心,毕竟他的时尚之路还很长。

 ◆ 亚历山大·王 (Alexander Wang) 官方网站: http://www.alexanderwang.com/

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Long before isms, ologies and otics. Before the Chicago Bauhaus, Yale, RISD, Cranbrook and Cal Arts. Before commercial art was called visual communications, the correspondence school was the principal American academy of art and an early training ground for American graphic designers. Scores of advertisements, like the famous "Draw Me!" matchbook cover, offered willing aspirants the big chance to earn "$65, $80 and more a week" in "a pleasant, profitable Art career." Although the ads often shared space at the back of cheesy pulp magazines with offers to learn, well, brain surgery at home, they offered a legitimate way for anyone with a modicum of talent, limited means and an existing job to train in their spare time for a new profession. Let's call it the precursor of "distance learning." 

During the late teens and early twenties, when advertising began a meteoric rise and commercial artists and letterers were in demand, correspondence schools were founded to train illustrators and designers. The most notable included The International Correspondence Schools in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Washington School of Art in Washington, D.C., The Lockwood Art Lessons in Kalamazoo, Michigan, The New York School of Design in New York City, Art Instruction, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota and The Frank Holme School of Illustration in Chicago, Illinois. The leader, however, was The Federal School of Commercial Designing founded in 1919. The Federal School's headquarters occupied a three story high, block long building in Minneapolis; had branch offices in New York City and Chicago; boasted over seventy-five advisors and full-time faculty members, was larger than any of the other schools; claimed over 3000 home study students annually enrolled and offered "a well-rounded, practical preparation for a profession" that was recognized by the Home Study Institute and the Midland National Bank of Minneapolis.




 
The Federal School issued an opulent 64-page catalog in 1927 in which it made the challenge:

"What would you give to be able to draw professionally? Do you long for the ability to make splendid pictures, such as you see daily in advertisements, attractive story illustrations, richly colored magazines covers?" Profusely illustrated with photos of artists and examples of their work the Federal School lured prospective students to the practice of commercial art by invoking the glories of advertising, which the catalog declared was "the newest art, the youngest great creative force, in the modern business world."

The Federal correspondence method ensured students a place in that lucrative world through "the conscientious individual attention of the Federal faculty" which included teachers in advertising, fashion and animal illustration, booklet and catalog construction, general commercial art and posters. Among the famous faculty; poster designer C. Matlock Price, "Painter with the Pen" Franklin Booth, Saturday Evening Post cover artist, Frank E. Schoonover, and Good Housekeeping cover artist and advertising luminary Coles Philips, did national work that commanded the top fees of the day and were models for the artists of tomorrow.

Hyperbole was invariably used to attract candidates. The Draw Me! Ads on matchbooks and in magazines, which began in the 1930s and were continued into the 1960s, promoting Art Instruction Inc., offered "Your big chance.… An easy-to-try way to win FREE art training!" while the ubiquitous "Art For Pleasure and Profit" ads published during 1930s through the 1940s showing an illustration of a smock-clad artist drawing a scantily clad model promoting the Washington School of Art, promised that one could "learn to draw at home in spare time" and make big bucks as a result. The International Correspondence Schools guaranteed a whopping "366 percent increased income" and a "1000 percent interest" on the investment made in its Sign Lettering Course, but this and other come-ons actually masked the serious nature of the well-rounded courses. In the 1920s and 1930s resident art schools charged an average of $300 annually as compared to an average of $75 to $100 for the correspondence school and entailed anywhere between one and four years of study during which time students were often unable to earn steady incomes, home study provided a real service. As the Federal School catalog boasted "the cost for tuition of such schools will average much higher than the tuition of the Federal School — to say nothing of your living expenses." The home study course further offered the benefit of measuring progress by the student's own ability to advance. The Washington School of Art proudly noted in its 1928 catalog that "We take great pains with backward students." And the International Correspondence School's 1929 catalog reassured its more challenged aspirants: "Don't hesitate to enroll because you lack an education.… Courses include punctuation and a 25-cent pocket dictionary will give you the correct spelling of all words you will likely have occasion to letter." Even women, who were not encouraged by the resident schools, were singled out as beneficiaries of a correspondence education: "Yes, you read it right," declared the Federal School's catalog. "It's true. Woman are constantly taking a larger place in the modern commercial world.… Buyers of commercial art will just as readily buy from women as from men.…"

A standard correspondence course included a dozen or so text-lessons and workbooks that taught practical lessons in drawing, composition, lettering, typography and more. The Federal School and Art Instruction Inc. both offered a unique twelve lesson course — what they called "divisions" — presented in a series of surprisingly clear, entertaining and profusely illustrated booklets, illustrated with some of the most fashionable and award-winning work of the day. Each division included step-by-step introductions to a variety of skills, crafts and analyses, such as Federal's "blocking in" with pencil and crayon in Division One, lettering — historical and modern — in Division Four, retouching photographs in Division Seven, artistic covers and title pages for booklets, catalogs and circulars in Division Eleven and reproduction methods in Division Twelve. Schematic diagrams enabled the student to work start work immediately. And a foreword to each division booklet proposed methods for studying, such as how to acquire a firm understanding of the principles, how to do the practice exercises and ultimately how to prepare the work to be submitted for criticism.

Lesson plan for a drawing school, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota



Individuality was extolled. "You are in a class by yourself," asserted the International Correspondence Schools' 1928 catalog, Show Cards and Signs. "The instructor attends to you alone; you are encouraged, counseled and guided at every step." This was accomplished through frequent reviews of assignments designed to keep the student on a forward track. Training manuals, workbooks, lesson charts and exercises were prepared by staff members based on study guidelines established by the luminary faculty, who were really only nominal teachers and rarely set foot on the school's premises. An exception was Frederic Goudy, who in the early teens was already a veteran type designer and a lettering instructor at the Frank Holme School in Chicago, which counted type designer Oswald Cooper as one of its graduates. The average instructor, however, was not famous, but a skilled boardman, letterer, or advertising artist recruited from the local art service agencies. These instructors were hired either full-time or part-time to evaluate the assignments and write the detailed reports which criticized rendering or conceptual skills; as a rule they did not develop the curriculum, but could offer students personal tips through their critiques, such as Federal instructor and newspaper illustrator C.L. Bartholomew's shortcut for drying wet paint with the lit end of a cigar. Teachers might be assigned an exclusive group of students or share them among other instructors. The student never spoke to or met the instructor, but mail relationships were nurtured to provide the student with a mentor. Students were given as much time as necessary to complete a project or particular phase of instruction. G.H. Lockwood, who edited The Student's Art Magazine and ran Lockwood's Art Lessons, personally critiqued all work submitted by his students, such as a drawing by an aspiring cartoonist to whom he candidly responded: "First I would entirely eliminate the lettering…it is what I would call a strictly bum job. The general rendering itself in [sic] so far ahead of so many of the drawings received at this office that I haven't the heart to be severe with you, nor the desire either.… My main criticism on this is in the 'action' or lack of action.… The sum total of the result is a drawing without power or forcefulness or attractiveness, for 'action' lends attraction to a composition better than most any other one thing."

All these programs issued diplomas to students who completed the course. But if for any reason the student was "not absolutely and unqualifiedly satisfied with the results of his or her study, provided written application for such refund is made within thirty days from the date the student completes the course in accordance with the rules of the school," as the Federal School promised, the full tuition would be refunded. According to the schools' own literature, such instances were rare because the schools enrolled students found their calling, as in this testimonial for International Correspondence School: "Your course has done for me what it will do for any one else if they enroll and study. I now have my own shop.… The last week in June and first week in July I made $100…I've had my I.C.S. diploma framed and feel very proud of it." The vast majority of these students turned to freelance careers or were absorbed by the local agencies, sign shops, printers and type shops. With the notable exception of Oz Cooper I have not found any others as nationally famous, nor do any of the catalogs tout well-known alumni.

Correspondence schools were operating as early as the 1890s, but the 1920s through the 1950s was its heyday. The Federal School ceased operation in the '50s around the same time that The Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut was founded, in 1947. The Famous Artists School began its full page advertising campaign in national magazines which showed its renown illustration faculty, including Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanos, Coby Whitmore, Albert Dorne and others (the so-called Westport School of American illustration), sitting around a table. The Famous Artist School, which focused exclusively on illustration, had this faculty develop classes, while part-time instructors reviewed and critiqued the student work. The Famous Artist School merged with Cortines Learning International in 1981 and still operates today, but the correspondence art school movement was overshadowed in the late 1960s, replaced today by distance learning programs as a "direct way of turning [a] liking for drawing into money."

The New York School of Design


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“Get Happy!!” poster for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, 1980

Barney Bubbles has a unique place in British graphic design. Even more than Robert Brownjohn, who also died much too soon, Bubbles feels both known and unknown. If only we could interview him now we could finally get some answers. Why refuse to sign your designs when you knew they were so original? Why the repeated desire for anonymity when your work sometimes includes stylized self-portraits, a blatant assertion of your presence on equal terms with your clients, in a way that most of your colleagues in graphic design would never have dared at the time? Bubbles’ suicide in 1983, at the age of 41, ensured that we will probably never get to the bottom of it. Only one hesitant interview with him exists, reluctantly undertaken and published in The Face two years before his death.

                          
Colin Fulcher (aka Barney Bubbles). Photograph by David Wills, 1966

No retrospective article about Bubbles — not that there have been many — neglects to mention his anonymity (he was born Colin Fulcher in 1942) and how this has obscured the full extent of his oeuvre and restricted a proper appreciation of his work. It makes a nice myth, but it has been overplayed. Younger post-punk design colleagues such as Neville Brody, and in particular Malcolm Garrett, have publicly praised him as an innovator who inspired them, and Bubbles’ key designs of the New Wave period, from 1977 to 1982, are well known to anyone familiar with the music scene of the time. But Bubbles had been around longer than that. I first noticed his name as a teenager in 1971 in issue 38 of the wild underground magazine Oz, where “the magnificent Barney Bubbles” is the sole editorial credit (he didn’t do the cover). I must have seen it again in my copy of Hawkwind’s extraordinary folding, hawk-shaped In Search of Space LP, bought the same year, though here, too, it wasn’t clear to the uninitiated exactly what Bubbles did. “Optics/semantics,” it says. Known but unknown.

The design establishment overlooked Bubbles, but this is hardly surprising. After three years working for the Conran Design Group he turned his back on the emerging London design biz and joined the counterculture, swapping Habitat calendars — see the 1966 Design and Art Direction annual, where he’s still Colin Fulcher — for rock concert lightshows (whence the bubbles) and record sleeves. Despite the impact of music graphics as popular culture, as something thrilling you might genuinely love, this branch of design wasn’t taken seriously by the profession. Even if the perennially shy and periodically absent Bubbles had been prepared to talk, which is doubtful, there were few British design magazines to do it in back then, and profiles focusing on individuals were rare. That began to change with the arrival of the monthly Creative Review in 1980 and the significance of music graphics — the place where the most exciting design was clearly happening, if you had half an eye open — could no longer be ignored.

                           
“Existence is Unhappiness” fold-out poster from Oz no. 12, 1968

By 1987, Bubbles had been given equal billing as an influential New Wave designer alongside Brody, Garrett, Peter Saville and Vaughan Oliver in design historian Catherine McDermott’s Street Style: British Design in the 80s, published by the Design Council. When we ran a 16-page profile in Eye in 1992 (now available online), it seemed the case for his significance had been made, at least for British readers, and this was confirmed by his appearance in Richard Hollis’ Graphic Design: A Concise History (1994). There was still a lingering sense, though, that somewhere out there must be some amazing unsigned work that still needed to be tied firmly to the BB oeuvre.

What Bubbles has lacked is international recognition as an important designer. How does he fit into the global narrative — or, more correctly, narratives — of graphic design? Philip Meggs overlooked him in three editions of his history, and the 2006 posthumous update by Alston Purvis didn’t correct that omission, though Oliver was finally given a dutiful mention, and Saville will make a belated appearance in the fifth edition, now in preparation. The key question that needs to be answered, if we think Bubbles merits more than local attention among a nostalgic ageing fanbase, concerns the nature of his achievement as a designer. Are there aspects of his work that makes it of enduring wider significance to design history, beyond his secure position in the history of British rock music, spanning the hippy counterculture and the New Wave?

Bubbles badly needed a monograph and now, finally, he has one, Paul Gorman’s Reasons to be Cheerful: The Life and Work of Barney Bubbles. Gorman has pulled off a feat no one else has managed and I wish I liked the book more. Bitten by the Bubbles bug as a teenage music fan, he is a journalist and music writer, with an interest in fashion, and he published an excellent oral history about the music press.

Unfortunately, he doesn’t know enough about the history, culture and practice of graphic design to analyze the visual aspects of Bubbles’ work with any precision or nuance, or to locate him with authoritative detail on the maps of British and international graphic design. The book continually asserts BB’s brilliance without explaining it convincingly. Gorman has structured his text as a chronological narrative heavily based on what Bubbles’ friends such as David Wills and Brian Griffin, and admirers such as Garrett and the singer Billy Bragg, have told him. He threads brief, prosaic descriptions of individual pieces into the biographical story, with no attempt anywhere at deeper thematic or contextual analysis — Bubbles’ interest in concrete poetry, for instance, is noted in passing but not explored. The haphazard placement of images in Reasons to be Cheerful, far from where they are mentioned, is a pain: the book is not well designed. My guess, having spoken to Gorman during his research, is that he sees all this as a strength, a way of connecting with a broader (less demanding, less design-aware) readership. But Bubbles is first of all a graphic designer and it is on an understanding of his designs, rather than on the affection of his fans, that his reputation must rest.

                    
“Lives” exhibition postcard for the Arts Council, 1979

In an attempt to establish Bubbles’ greatness, Reasons to be Cheerful makes a predictable claim for his work’s status as art. “Bubbles broke out of the commercial constraints of his given trade and emerged as a pure artist, one whose silent influence lingers,” claims Gorman. Peter Saville, who contributes a self-involved essay about Bubbles, imagines the work plucked from its context and placed in the white cube of the gallery; there, he suggests, it would get respect. If Bubbles really shared this view — “He wanted to be an artist with a capital A, not a graphic designer,” says Pauline Kennedy, who worked with him — then this is no different from the envy many designers feel about the freedom and acclaim enjoyed by fine artists. In the Face interview, Bubbles is skeptical about record sleeves as art, yet he also declares that “commercial design is the highest art form.” This ambivalence is not unusual among dedicated designers who bruise themselves on the shackles of the trade, convinced of their own talent yet painfully aware that the world doesn’t get it.

Gorman shows a few examples of the paintings Bubbles did for friends in the last years of his life. They use the same motifs found in his earlier designs: bars, rules, dots, zigzags, splatters, squiggles, planes of intersecting color, ragged lines playing against sharp edges. They are good but they are not as original, measured against other paintings, as his record sleeves are, measured against other designs. Bubbles had a finely calibrated graphic sense (it’s present in the paintings, too) just like a drummer has a natural sense of rhythm, but it needed the boundaries of the printed rectangle, the tension of a smaller frame, to concentrate it and make it special. Paintings are big and ponderous. Surrounded by white space in the gallery, endowed with a dignity they might not deserve, they make large claims for their importance. Bubbles — it’s there in his name — is a master manipulator of fleeting, everyday optics and semantics, to be absorbed browsing the sleeves in a record shop, or lazing about at a friend’s house listening to the music. The speed, ephemeral lightness and disposability of the mass-produced image made it the perfect medium for his humor, his love of visual games, puzzles, diagrams and codes, and his delight in marginal devices such as inexplicable symbols, which add a layer of intrigue to sleeves, pages and ads that could have been ordinary in someone else’s hands.

                   
“Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick” 7-inch single sleeve for Ian Dury and the Blockheads, 1978

The intricately reflexive nature of his work made Bubbles a true original in his day. No previous British designer had produced mass-market graphic communications this playful, personal, freighted with allusion, or tricksy. Bubbles was a postmodernist before this new category of graphic design had been identified and defined, and he is as significant an innovator as his American contemporary April Greiman. His designs refer to art history (Mucha, Lissitzky, Van Doesburg, Kandinsky, Picabia, Mondrian, Pollock); to popular culture and kitsch (the wallpaper on Ian Dury’s Do It Yourself, the shagpile rug on the Attractions’ Mad About the Wrong Boy); to graphic processes and the nature of the printed medium (the color bars on Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model, the scuff marks on Get Happy!!); and — never letting us forget his “anonymous” authorship — to the designer himself. Two of these oblique self-portraits, showing Bubbles’ large nose, are well known (Costello’s Armed Forces and Dr Feelgood’s Fast Women & Slow Horses), but there are other graphic faces placed where you wouldn’t expect to find them, such as the image on the copyright page of the “Lives” exhibition catalogue (1979) designed for the Arts Council, and the monumental (block)head in Brian Griffin’s book Power: British Management in Focus (1981), which could be intended as cheeky substitutes for Bubbles’ inevitably absent design credit. When The Face asked to photograph him, he made them a picture out of fragments instead.

                      
Barney Bubbles by Barney Bubbles, 1981

Attempts to hoist Bubbles out of graphic design and claim he was an artist all along do him a disservice by downplaying his achievement as a designer, and denigrate design by implying that anything this good must belong in another category. In reality, Bubbles’ work, like Greiman’s or Saville’s, revealed what can sometimes be possible within applied visual communication, in spite of all the constraints, when a gifted graphic designer finds imaginative client collaborators willing to allow some space to experiment. Compare his work with many classic late 1960s and pre-New Wave 1970s record covers: usually they are composed of a single commanding image with the artist’s name and title. Bubbles’ sleeves are graphic constructions, offering multiple points of interest, dispersing the viewer’s attention. He showed that the visual language of design — type, symbol, pattern, shape, often reassembled in unfamiliar configurations — could be a powerful, exciting and subtle medium for involving a popular audience. Although conditions often conspire against such freedoms now, he is a leading figure within the evolution of intelligently reflexive design. Known but unknown. It’s about time the slower moving design history books caught up with him.

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Dear Lennon;
   How are you ? How are you ?
    I have missed you. I wanted to contact you .I don't want distrb you in ang way ,I just want to know how you are .
    I still remenber Beaties,Bteatles.....
    No grop of singers does more than you engage the hearts and minds of young people.
   And then. you was gone,and life seened to stop.
   You know. all of the people wanted to find
you again. 
    We love you.
    Love Ono.
    We hope you better and better in heaven .
    We are happy beacuase of begness.   
  
                                    Yours,Ruin
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    我该用什么样的语言来形容他呢?他的角色...

    《闪电奇迹》震撼了我...

      如此之久...

                     在那里面,他没有沧桑,有的只是天才的特殊与孤独.....

                             我喜欢哪个角色,我觉得他前所未有的美丽....美到窒息...

                  那种不被世人所接受的美。人性被袒露无疑....

             

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好久以前画的了....

从朋友空间里找出来的...

想不到她还保留着...并且发到空间里...

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