Viva Espana!

At Sell! Sell! towers we adopted the Spanish team for the European championships, so it was great to see them win it last night. Although, as a replacement for following the England team it didn't really deliver. Where was the under achievement? Where was the rubbish football? Where was the getting knocked-out by a much less good team followed by national self-loathing and much beer-soaked introspection? Well thankfully nowhere to be seen. Just great football and a trophy. Nice.
Here's a last little slice of fantastic Spanish culture to celebrate.

Fifty Designers' Current Favourite Typefaces

This is a neat little book created to raise money for UNICEF's Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children's Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2nd May 2008.
It includes contributions from people like Farrow, Stefan Sagmeister, The Chase, North, Pentagram and The Designers Republic. And it's only three quid. So why not buy one instead of your bucket of milk & coffee tomorrow?
You can buy it from Koenig Books in Charing Cross Road, Artwords Bookshop in Shoreditch or here.
VIA DELICIOUS INDUSTRIES

Seven Songs For Spring

We've been tagged by our good friends at Delicious Industries to come up with our 'Seven Songs For Spring'. It's now sort of 'Seven Songs For Spring/Summer', although that sounds a bit like a catalogue. Anyhow enough! Here are our seven songs, as nominated by the Sell! Sell! crew (in no particular order)...

1. La Bamba - Los Lobos

2. All I Want Is You - Barry Louis Polisar

3. Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show

4. Sunshine - Sparklehorse

5. Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings

6. California Soul - Marlena Shaw

7. Springtime For Hitler - The Producers Original Soundtrack



In turn we are tagging Rubbishcorp, Lunar, and I Rate Everything.

Are You Being Served? (not by Tom Hunter)

How many times can you make the 'My Pussy' joke and it still be funny?
A lot. Classic.
"Ground floor perfumery, stationery and leather goods, going up..."

'Are You Being Served' by Tom Hunter

Also at the Museum of Childhood is an excellent project by photographer Tom Hunter. Called 'Are You Being Served' it "explores the changing face of east end trade...situational portraits of local businesses on the main road between Bethnal Green and central Hackney provide us with a fascinating record of the diverse proprietors, their premises and their wares". They are fantastic shots that really capture their subjects incredibly well, like frozen moments in time. These are the kinds of images that will be hungrily studied in the future to see what life was like now. Definitely worth seeing for real, rather than tiny pics on the interwbnet, to see all of the detail and nuances that Hunter has captured. See the series, and more of his work here.

Olympic Posters at The Museum of Childhood

The Museum of Childhood is an excellent museum in Bethnal Green, housed in a fantastic building - read more about it here.

They are currently holding an exhibition of Olympic posters from the past 100 years. It's a really interesting group of work, because the thing they are celebrating is consistent, but obviously the different locations and the different eras have vastly different styles. The classic Olympic poster for me is the Mexico 68 one - it was great to see it in the flesh. There is some fantastic design there, including posters designed by Lichtenstein and David Hockney. You walk round it in chronological order, which is really interesting, the only down side of which is that you are left with the design for the London (iondon?) 2012 games. Which looks a little sad after its iconic predecessors. Still, for anyone interested in design, it's great collection to see. Find out more here.

Max's Joke Of The Week Part Deux

Me, but cunningly disguised.

After franticly surfing the web desperately trying to find an amusing joke that would make the two fearsome and ferocious advertisers, that are Andy and Vic laugh it occurred to me that one, almost all joke website’s are rubbish and that 50% of jokes are about dumb blonds. So when I stumbled across this little bomb shell I thought it was the first joke that had gone in the opposite direction to the usual blonds are stupid. In reality most people are aware that you should never underestimate the blond as this poor man did, cause otherwise you will end up looking like the plum.

CAR-CROSSED LOVERS

A woman and a man driver are involved in a horrific collision, but amazingly both escape completely unhurt - though their cars are written off.
As they crawl out of the wreckage, the man sees the woman is blonde and strikingly beautiful. Then the woman turns to the man and gushes breathily: 'That's incredible - both our cars are demolished but we're fine. It must be a sign from God that we are meant to be together!'
Sensing a promise, the man stammers back, 'Oh yes, I agree with you completely!'
The woman goes on, 'And look, though my car was destroyed, this bottle of wine survived intact, too! It must be another sign. Let's drink to our love!'
'Well, OK!' says the man, going with the moment. She offers him the bottle, so he downs half of it and hands it back.
'Your turn,' says the man.
'No, thanks,' says the woman, 'I think I'll just wait for the police.'