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Artist and designer John Coulthart has a great post on his blog about illustrator and designer Barney Bubbles. You probably know Bubbles' work, if not his name––among many other cool things, he designed the iconic Ian Dury and the Blockheads logo (left) and did a lot of the brilliant Elvis Costello album covers, too (both art and design, unusually). I remember admiring this stuff back in the day (which has just dated me, I know). See the post here. Via Design Observer.