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Reasons to be Cheerful poster

Ian Dury & the Blockheads

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          title: Reasons to be Cheerful poster
   artiste/band: Ian Dury & the Blockheads
   record label: Stiff Records
         format: 30"x20" & 15"x10" Poster 2 col.print on art paper
   release date: 1979
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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...