To polish off Fletcher Week, here's his cover for Wallpaper, one of his last comissions. You may have seen this on the Creative Review Blog a couple of weeks ago (finger on the pulse then!). It's a particularly interesting cover because they left off the mast heading as a kind of tribute to Fletcher (e-cr explains it). Someone commented that it wouldn't make the news stands, presumably because of this, so it was only available through the Wallpaper website or through boutique outlets like Magma.
So that was Fletcher Week. Any good? A bit too much Fletcher? Too much collage?
Back to normal next week.
Brilliant.
Posted by: Ben | 14 December 2006 at 02:15 PM
Now, do you mean "Brilliant, back to normal next week" or "Fletcher week was brilliant!"?
Posted by: Richard | 14 December 2006 at 11:29 PM
Fletcher week was brilliant. Of course.
Posted by: Ben | 15 December 2006 at 11:27 AM
Nice to see the coverage. I have to say while marvelling at the huge range of his output, I did find myself getting a little emotional at some of the very personal items like the christmas cards, and couldn't really bring myself to go through the notebooks at the end. I think this is because it's all so recent.
I was surprised to spot the curvy coathangers on display, and on my return had a rummage in the 'to sort' boxes in the attic and found three of these which I'd rescued from my mother's house when she moved a couple of years ago. So they'll get pride of place when I finish the new wardrobe.
The only downside was the lack of any decent souvenirs - a few postcards would've been nice, or some repro posters. The poster they did offer I grabbed, only to find when I got it home it was a second-hand folded invite to the show preview...
Posted by: simon robinson | 02 February 2007 at 07:34 PM