Gile Gilbert Scott, the English architect who designed the red telephone box, was born on the 9th November 1880. Google celebrated this with a fancy remake of its own icon.
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Art connections
Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world
This article starts with an image still from the film Otolith II, 2007 – featuring iconic red phone boxes.
Pink Floyd at the V&A
The recent Pink Floyd exhibition held at the V&A used the iconic British phone box through-out:
Iconic tattoo
A friend of mine, Hope, has just got herself some new tattoos and there is one that is pretty special to this blog:
Contribution
Thanks to Shiraz for this link for the blog:
“The famous phone boxes”: a review of ‘Out of Order by David Mach
Montreal, Canada
We took a holiday in Canada/USA last month and I have a few photos to post:
Montreal airport
Montreal airport
Shopping centre
Port of Montreal sculpture
Port of Montreal
Banksy likes a phone box
Banksy likes a phone box – and so, it seems, does someone else…
Source: ‘i’ newspaper, 23/8/2016
Street action
A bit of street art and entertainment, as seen from above, utilising the phone box (July 2016, Canary Wharf, London).