Episode 88: Talking Music Posters with Paul Hennessey

 

Both eye-catching and informative, posters are one of the most highly collectible forms of design. They are used to promote products, places, events, art, political movements and almost anything else you can think of. Today we’re joined by a special guest from across the Pond, Paul Hennessey, who owns two poster shops in the UK. We talk cats, food sauces, whether Paul may be Banksy and music posters for the Live Aid concerts and Duran Duran’s album Rio.

Pour yourself a pint and belly on up. It’s time to join us and our special guest expert back in the bar.


E X T R A S :

Live Aid commemorative poster designed by British collage artist Peter Blake

 

(Top to bottom): The Duran Duran Rio album designed by Malcolm Garrett and illustrated by Patrick Nagel, the photo of Marcie Hunt that Nagel based his illustration on, the wraparound design of the full album artwork

 

Pub guest and poster expert Paul Hennessey of GRAFIX

 

Additional Resources
Live Aid (Wikipedia article)
Rio (Wikipedia article)

GRAFIX: Clubhouse for the Posterati
Website
Twitter
Instagram

Articles
“Duran Duran’s Rio Cover Model Identified 42 Years Later” (Consequence Sound article)


 
Previous
Previous

Episode 89: Looking Back on Four Years

Next
Next

Episode 87: Gen X and the Golden Age of Magazines