1. Barney Bubbles produced a variety of commercial commissions for Conran, including the Norman-style archer logo for Strongbow cider and items for Conran's new homewares chain Habitat.
24 Facts About Barney Bubbles
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Early in 1969, Barney Bubbles took the lease on a three-storey building at 307 Portobello Road in Notting Hill Gate, West London.
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Barney Bubbles converted the ground-floor space into a graphic art studio, which he named Teenburger Designs.
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Barney Bubbles' son, Aten Skinner, who is an artists and graphic designer, was born in 1972.
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Barney Bubbles engaged in many aspects of the group's visual identity, titling releases and designing posters, adverts, stage decoration and performance plans, some of which were adorned with mystical and mock-Teutonic insignia.
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In 1972 Barney Bubbles produced the triple LP package Glastonbury Fayre.
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From 1973 onwards, Barney Bubbles increasingly avoided credits for his artwork, typically working anonymously or occasionally adopting alternative pseudonyms.
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Barney Bubbles joined Stiff Records as designer and art director early in 1977.
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Barney Bubbles created sleeves for bands including the Damned, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and Wreckless Eric.
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When Riviera left Stiff in late 1977, Barney Bubbles joined him at his new label Radar Records and later at Riviera's F-Beat Records.
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Barney Bubbles maintained his freelance output, producing designs for Peter Jenner, and others.
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Barney Bubbles created a prodigious output by working for such bands, musicians and performers as Peter Hammill, Vivian Stanshall, Generation X, Big Star, Johnny Moped, Whirlwind, Billy Bragg, Clover, the Sinceros, Roger Chapman, Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Dr Feelgood, Inner City Unit and the Psychedelic Furs.
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Barney Bubbles's work is simultaneously complex in meaning and simple in its delivery.
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In 1979, riding on the reputation of his work for Stiff, Barney Bubbles was engaged by the UK music newspaper New Musical Express to spearhead an overhaul of its decades-old brand.
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Barney Bubbles' redesign incorporated elements of Pop art and 1920s Soviet poster art into a "sleek, forward-looking" graphic format.
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Barney Bubbles's restyling included a fresh logo with "clean, stencilled, military-style lettering", which heralded the title's change from New Musical Express to NME.
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Together with the photographer Chris Gabrin, Barney Bubbles exhibited a video and mixed-media installation in the exhibition.
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In 1982, Barney Bubbles conceived the album Ersatz, working primarily with Nik Turner and other musicians from Inner City Unit.
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Barney Bubbles had considerable personal and financial worries, and had fallen out of fashion in the early 1980s.
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Barney Bubbles is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and exemplar of design for music.
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Barney Bubbles took the world by storm with his momentous contribution,' wrote Creative Boom's Aya Angelos in 2022.
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The first exhibition dedicated to Barney Bubbles' work was held at London gallery Artomatic in 2001, curated by the art-design team Rebecca And Mike.
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In January 2012, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a documentary, In Search of Barney Bubbles, written, produced and presented by Mark Hodkinson.
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In 2020 an archive of Barney Bubbles work was acquired for public collections under the UK's cultural gifts and acceptance in lieu schemes and allocated to Liverpool John Moores University.