Romantic Comic Strip Walls
Tuesday 28 March 2017
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Anyone familiar amongst the function of Mini Moderns volition non live surprised to expose that they’ve held a lifelong appreciation of Pop Art. Perhaps to a greater extent than surprising is how their fascination amongst this motility took root. Because, from an early on historic catamenia – long earlier they’d developed an involvement inwards consumer civilization in addition to all things graphic – Mark in addition to Keith both used to dear reading the romantic comic strips inwards their older sisters’ magazines.
These somewhat one-dimensional tales of dear in addition to loss endured inwards their imaginations, in addition to though they were a guilty pleasure, the pair couldn’t help but live inspired past times the artwork. For Keith, this obsession was farther fueled past times a happy accident. “Two renowned comic artists, Trevor Metcalfe in addition to Robert Nixon, both only happened to alive inwards my domicile town. Trevor Metcalfe rather took me nether his fly in addition to would let me to spotter him function every bit he created characters for Whizzer in addition to Chips in addition to Krazy Comic”.
No surprise, then, that a wallpaper has long been brewing at the dorsum of the blueprint duo’s minds. Getting the drawing vogue only correct was a challenge, every bit Keith explains: “What nosotros loved most the master copy artwork was the agency the illustrations could veer from beautifully detailed, to quite naïve. Getting the correct residue betwixt sophistication in addition to simplicity was primal to ensuring the resultant would live easily recognizable every bit a romantic comic strip of the period”.
Mark points out that the blueprint features a hidden process for Mini Moderns fans: “We couldn’t resist bringing our iconic logo to life, thence approximately of the activity takes house at a telephone box exterior the Mini Moderns bungalow”.
In keeping amongst the topic of the latest collection, True Romance tells the even of a typical Sabbatum nighttime inwards suburbia. It depicts a romantic see rescued from close disaster. After making a date, our heroine misses the bus, in addition to the span fille the film, but they overcome adversity to bask a lovely Sabbatum night…. at last!
True Romance is the 4th impress to launch from the forthcoming Mini Moderns collection, Sabbatum Night/Sunday Morning, inwards which the blueprint duo revisit the cultural influences that shaped their blueprint aesthetic during their teenage years, growing upward inwards the North during the 1980s.
True Romance is available inwards 4 colourways: Welsh Slate, Snow & Gold, Tangerine Dream, in addition to Lido. £50 per roll. Available via www.minimoderns.com.