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Sleeve for I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass (1978), a 7″ single by Nick Lowe. Design by Barney Bubbles.<\/em><\/p>\n Continuing an occasional series. Designer Vic Fieger<\/a> had a guest post at Reasons To Be Cheerful<\/a> earlier this week examining Barney Bubbles’ use of the human face in his graphic designs. This is one side of the Bubbles work I really enjoy, he had a remarkable facility for demonstrating a versatility with abstract shapes\u2014or found objects, as in the piece above\u2014while playing games with our pattern recognition. A recurrent playfulness was one of the many notable things about his approach to design.<\/p>\n Story title from The Best of Michael Moorcock (2009).<\/em><\/p>\n Fieger’s focussing on the faces in Barney’s work struck a chord for me since I’d deliberately tried something similar last year, taking a cue from Barney’s example. The Colour<\/em> piece above is one of the story titles from The Best of Michael Moorcock<\/em><\/a> published by Tachyon. For each story I designed a different title in a style which complemented the subject; Colour<\/em> is a science fiction piece in which card games figure, hence the symbols. Mike Moorcock was friends with Barney during the 1970s so there was an additional reason for the reference.<\/p>\n I don’t know whether anyone has noticed the face on the cover of Booklife<\/em><\/a> but it is there, with the two flowers at the top forming the eyes and the book’s title standing for the mouth. Once again, this wasn’t strictly necessary for the success of the design but it gave a rationale for the arrangment of the flowers. There’s also the hope when something is this subtle that the attraction of the pattern impells a browser to pick up the book in a shop without quite knowing why.<\/p>\n Booklife<\/em> and The Best of Michael Moorcock<\/em> are both available from Tachyon<\/a>. Paul Gorman’s Barney Bubbles book, Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Life & Work Of Barney Bubbles<\/em><\/a>, will be relaunched later this year in a new edition.<\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Sleeve for I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass (1978), a 7″ single by Nick Lowe. Design by Barney Bubbles. Continuing an occasional series. Designer Vic Fieger had a guest post at Reasons To Be Cheerful earlier this week examining Barney Bubbles’ use of the human face in his graphic designs. This is one side … Continue reading “Design as virus 12: Barney’s faces”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,3,20,23],"tags":[86,727,142,65,1467,383,1603,691],"class_list":["post-7533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-barney-bubbles","tag-burne-hogarth","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-paul-gorman","tag-tachyon-publications","tag-vic-fieger","tag-victor-moscoso"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"colour.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/colour.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 Into the Media Web by Michael Moorcock<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 11: Burne Hogarth<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 10: Victor Moscoso<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 9: Mondrian fashions<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Best of Michael Moorcock<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 8: Keep Calm and Carry On<\/a>
\n\u2022 Designing Booklife<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 7: eyes and triangles<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 6: Cassandre<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 5: Gideon Glaser<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 4: Metamorphoses<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 3: the sincerest form of flattery<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 2: album covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Design as virus 1: Victorian borders<\/a>
\n\u2022 Barney Bubbles: artist and designer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"