Celebrating four decades worth of inspiring political cards from he independent postcard press, a unique and graphically inventive record of the struggles as well as the progressive political triumphs from 1979 to the present day.
Leeds Postcards
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Book Surgeries
Marking 50 years since May '68, this book presents posters from the British collective Poster Workshop. Their work, made in Camden from 1968 onwards, give a unique perspective on the key political issues in 1960s and 1970s Britain - many of which still resonate today.
Poster Workshop 1968-1971
For the second book in the Irregulars series, David Clarke has selected material from the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk, now held at The National Archives, to present the remarkable stories behind these images, including alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead, and a spaceship landing at a primary school.
UFO Drawings From The National Archives
Launching our Irregulars series: from the hiss and crackle of Britain’s CB radio heyday, comes Eyeball Cards. These alternate identities of ‘breakers’ are sometimes amusing, occasionally mundane, dark or bawdy, but always personal creations: social media identities from a time before the internet.
Eyeball Cards
We asked William Hogan and David Titlow about their experience of Citizens Band Radio Culture of the 1980s, and more specifically the Eyeball Cards: the business cards of ‘breakers’ exchanged when meeting up in person after chatting on the airwaves.
A CB Radio Q&A
For the Irregulars series, David Clarke has selected images - drawings, paintings and photographs - sent in to the Ministry of Defence's UFO Desk and now held at The National Archives. We asked him how he got interested in UFOs and what they might mean.
Questions & Answers: UFO Drawings
We’re proud to introduce our newest project, one that we’ve been beavering away at for over a year now: Four Corners Irregulars, a series of books presenting a new look at the history of modern British visual culture.
We have chosen a wide range of different subjects, ranging from politics to hobbies, and stretching from 1945 to the present day. All are linked by the remarkable visual creativity in Britain beyond art galleries and museums. Some of the work we feature is by artists working outside of the gallery context and some was made by people who didn’t consider themselves artists at all.
The first volume is by William Hogan and David Titlow, about Eyeball Cards, the mysterious business cards created by CB radio enthusiasts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ‘Breakers’ would chat over the airwaves at a time when the technology was yet to be legalised and would create handles for themselves to help keep their identity a secret. The result is a window into an outpouring of creativity that prefigures online identities – social media personas from before the internet.
Read about Irregular #1, Eyeball CardsBooks
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