brief / approach

...see backstory for Ian Dury & Peter Blake's brief & approach...

backstory

This poster for the Blockheads was done in collaboration with the artist, Peter Blake - who had taught Ian Dury at art school - Ian had invited him into the Stiff art dept to work on it soasto help take his mind off a difficult breakup he was going through...

   Luckily for me, by this time I had learnt and was fascinated by the artwork processes for translating your ideas into print - which was extremely handy as that’s what Peter Blake wanted to learn about...

I’ve always treasured that extraordinary & insightful week - coming up with the rebus-like idea for constructing the poster - along with Peter’s hand written credit for me at the bottom...