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Print artist Dave Buonaguidi knows how to provoke reactions. Famous for creating the iconic ‘MAKE TEA NOT WAR’ poster in 2003 an image that now hangs in both the VA and Trento Museum of Modern Art, and became notorious at the height of anti war sentiment Buonaguidi continues to stir up the art world with stylised prints, splashed with graphic, tongue in cheek slogans. His recent, ‘I Fucking Love This Place’ series brings together graphic sensibility, effortless simplicity, and wry humour to perfection. Using vintage maps of metropolitan areas, Buonaguidi has created lithograph prints, each one dominated by the frank admission, ‘I fucking love this place’ in huge letters, overlaid across the entire map image. For Shoredtich, Buonaguidi has taken a large cross section of the fashionable East London district from a historic map probably early twentieth century, although the lack of date provides some novelty guesswork for the cartography enthusiast. Buonaguidi has a fantastic eye for colour, composition and graphics the print is all about the gentle palette of salmon pink, mustard yellow and lime green, interspersed with ribbons of black and white. The font for the slogan is a large, serif type, italicised and white, with a thin black outline. It’s the perfect print for the Shoreditch lover, or for anyone with a penchant for graphic design and a taste for artsy humour.
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