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Londonist Underground: Ripped Posters

Prints inspired by ripped-up underground posters.

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Preview: The Art Of Winning Exhibition @Boxpark

What does winning look like? (sponsored post).

Figures for 1923 by Charles Shepard (1924)

Exhibition Preview: Painting By Numbers @ London Transport Museum

Cool infographics from a previous age go on show at LTM

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Alternative Olympic Posters

The official Olympic posters stir others into creativity.

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Official Olympic And Paralympic Posters Unveiled

Yours for £7 a pop, the Queen gets hers for free

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Review: Modern Toss @ Maverick Showrooms

Buy it on Amazon £4.49 An invitation to a private view of The Modern Toss London Museum of Urban Shit-Naks pressed all our buttons. Who wouldn’t want an evening perusing “a 200metre long communal cartoon, some live poetry reading from the Drive-by Abuser, a selection …

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London Underground Tarts Up For London Fashion Week

You were probably as bemused as we were that Boris Johnson is due to appear on the cover of Elle magazine’s London Fashion Week issue (Lily LDN Allen will be on the plebian edition available at a newsagent near you). But, listen up, because Elle …

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Design A “Beyond Zone 1″ Poster Competition

If you enjoyed the Transport Museum’s Art of the Poster exhibition and are a dab hand at design yourself then you’ve got just over 3 weeks left to enter the Poster Design Competition which is being run by the Museum, TFL and the London Design …

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Get Your Free Art On The Underground

By Jonny Tiger via the Londonist Flickrpool Remember the poster giveaway to mark the rebranding of Art on the Underground? Nabbing artwork instead of a freesheet turned out to be so popular, they’re at it again. To coincide with the opening of artist Richard Long’s …

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Free Tonight?

There’s a whole section of the London Transport Museum dedicated to how the development of the tube lines contributed to the explosion of suburbia in the early 20th century and how Tube poster art became a way of selling the suburbs to commuters as plum …

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Art Of The Poster At London Transport Museum

We’ve been big fans of London Transport Museum since it reopened in November last year and now there’s an additional incentive for you to go and visit. As well as their excellent permanent exhibition about the history of London Transport and fine examples of trains, …