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The coolest Wrapping Paper on the web
Over at the Flashbak Shop , they’ve got what might be the coolest wrapping paper ever. With designs by the likes of Ernst Haeckel, Louis Wain, Gustav Klimt and Wassily Kandinsky, your gift wil...
Spellbinding prints of New York City In Neon
The brilliant Flashbak shop for archival prints has a new range of photographs by Gerry Cranham. The British photographer (born 1928), took these pictures and many more in the late 1960s, exp...
William Nicholson’s London Types
William Nicholson designed his ‘London Types ‘ in 1898. Printmaker William Nicholson worked in partnership with his brother-in-law James Pryde, under the pseudonym the Beggarstaff Brothers . ...
Dutch designer Ootje Oxenaar’s handmade replacement book cover spines
Dutch designer Ootje Oxenaar created replacement book cover spines. You can see them in a new book, Ootje Oxenaar Spines . > Although renowned for his designs for Dutch banknotes and�...
Winnie the Pooh is now in the public domain
This Public Domain Day on January 1, 2022 meant works from 1926 lost their copyright and became yours to play around with and enjoy. Around 400,000 recordings published before 1923 entered the pu...
The best vegan-friendly, fair wear organic cotton T-Shirts
These organic cotton -T-shirts from Flashbak are environmentally safe, fair wear and vegan friendly. The organic T-Shirt carries the The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) label, the leading ...
Buy the Best Christmas Cards
Looking for Christmas cards, maybe ones without the robin dusted in snow or a turkey doused in cranberry sauce? Well, you’re in luck. Flasbak has a fabulous range of the best Christmas cards . ...
E.A. Seguy’s Butterflies
Papillons by E.A. Séguy (Emile Allain Séguy), 1877-1951, was published in Paris in 1925. The work features 81 sublime images of butterflies (papillons) in 16 tableaux. All 16 plates are now a...
Killer Sunglasses in a 1837 Portrait
That’s Nathaniel Olds in the killer sunglasses. They weren’t added by photoshop, but were as Olds wore them in 1837 he sat for his portrait by Jeptha Homer Wade (American, 1811-1890). Accordi...
Eco-labels, organic and green but only one thing matters: the price tag
The Guardian is interested in seeing which labels on supermarket and processed foods gets diners to change their ways and opt for the more eco-friendly product. It spots “a different type that...
Georg Bartisch’s fabulous eye surgery illustrations from the 16th Century
In 1583, Georg Bartisch (1535–1607), a German physician, produced the first Renaissance manuscript on ophthalmic disorders and eye surgery. The book, Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst, disc...
Ode to a Highflying Bird – Charlie Watts’ Jazz Book
Charlie Watts left behind not just a catalogue of great music and performances but a book. The trained graphic designer and musician best known as the drummer with The Rolling Stones loved jazz...
When and why Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger, by Keith Richards
Charlie Watts has died. The coolest and best looking Rolling Stone by far. In Keith’s autobiography, we get a bit of Charlie we can admire: Spotter: Andrew Beasley
Harrods for Everything – 1912
With the Selfridge’s department store on London’s Oxford Street now up for sale – yours for $4bn – what next for the city’s biggest shopping brands? Harrods, the Knightsbridge store th...
Cool Cats & Red Devils – brilliant photographs of British football fans in the 1970s
Iain S P Reid’s fantastic photos of British football fans in the 1970s are going to be in our new book. You can back Cool Cats & Red Devils at the Kickstarter . Please do – it’s a great pro...
Prints of Kawanabe Kyōsai’s erotic Japanese scrolls
Kawanabe Kyōsai Prints (1831-1889) was a Japanese artist born into the age of feudalism and maturing into the Meiji period, when the country became a modern state. Nicknamed “The Painting Demo...
Raymond Chandler’s dictionary of police and prison slang
Writer keep notebooks because ideas arrive unexpectedly. Raymond Chandler kept two sorts of notebook – one to jot down daily events and work in progress; the other a lexicon of titles, words, p...
You legally grow, smoke and carry 28g of marijuana in Mexico
As lockdowns end, Mexico’s top court has decriminalised the recreational use of cannabis. You can get stoned in Mexico without fear of fine and worse, just as you can in many US states over the...
Rudolph Kalvach prints and T-shirts
Rudolf Kalvach (1883-1932) was the Austrian artist whose youthful expressionism made him a mainstay of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), the group established in 1903 by graphic design...
ASCII pr0n is fine art for museums
How good is ASCII art? Illustrated Phonographic World told its readers about typewriter art in 1893. > The Reporter’s Journal agreed with the Phonetic Journal about > “the fooli...
Jack London’s extraordinary photos of London
In 1902 American author Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) visited London city. Writing in The People of the Abyss he described a trip to Whitechapel, seeing people in doss-h...
Making Japanese prints – a lovely video
Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e ) are routinely gorgeous . But how are they made? Master printmaker Keiji Shinohara shows us how in this great video. Lead image: Eight Shadow Figures, c...
Gorgeous hoodies for Organic loving Vegans at the Flashbak Shop
On Flashbak , there’s a fabulous range of hoodies, all suitable for organic loving vegans. Hoodies are Vegan Friendly & Organic. – High-end product, wonderful quality (350 G/M²) – Av...
Spurs fans joy at watching paint dry – the Dulux years
Spurs fans have been watching paint dry for years. And now the club has – get this – an official paint partner. It’s Dulux, the paint brand with the shaggy dog on the cans. No, not the Labr...
The best aprons ever are now in the Flashbak Shop
The brilliant Flashbak Shop has introduced a range of aprons. Smarten up your BBQs and suppers with designs by Dmitri S. Moor, Leonetto Cappiello, Gustave Dore and Gustav Klimt. Order your...