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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 British counties, Buonaguidi has created silkscreen prints, each one dominated by the frank admission, ‘I fucking love this place’ in huge letters, overlaid across the entire map. For Kent, Buonaguidi has taken a large cross section of the coastal county from a vintage road map. Buonaguidi has a fantastic eye for colour, composition and graphics the print is all about the soft palette of blue and green and the blocky shape of Kent, with ribbons of thin, red and black roads snaking throughout. The font for the slogan is a large, serif type, italicised and white. It’s the perfect print for the Kent lover, or for anyone with a penchant for cartographic design and a taste for artsy humour.
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