Momma Doesn't Like Tattletales

R.I.P Roddy Piper

Paperback Writer

The "lost novel" as an actual novel.

George Spiggott

The Peter Cook and Dudley Moore tour de force Bedazzled has been a favourite of Piper Gates for a long time (see here and here). Deciding to look at the subject with a different approach it was decided to incorporate the pop art visuals of the Stanley Donen film with the design of Dudley's beloved jazz albums. It was then presented in the look of a lost novel and available as a limited edition of thirty 30cm x 40cm prints here.

Jimmy Pt 2

Based on the very popular Quadrophenia Poster from a couple of years ago this very limited edition A5 greetings card is available for one week only. The inside of the card is blank giving the opportunity to be used for a variety of occasions and also has a unique blurb on the back.

John Carpenter's Film Festival

Promotional quad poster, brochure, postcards and tickets for a festival that never happened.

Jimmy

Returning to the world of the lost novel it was decided to tackle the wonderful world of the 1979 film Quadrophenia. The novel released at the time doesn't really capture the essence of the film and so the decision was taken to to reimagine the novel how it should have been. Taking inspiration from Bruce Robertson's cover from the 1962 Scootering novel and mixing it with pop art a design was created which reflected the "four" personalities of Jimmy combining it with the accepted imaginary of mod culture. The limited edition print measures 30cm x 40cm and printed on 250 gram silk paper.

Caracus

This in the first in an occasional series of Piper Gates favourite things. Gregory's Girl is possibly the best film ever; to go into its genius would take longer than 12 elephants to explain. The influence on this series stems from reading "Lord of the Flies" at school and being facinated by the fact that there were variant covers, memory now suggests that I was handed the book with a different cover every week. Deciding to take this further it was decided to make an occasional series of novels done in this style with the subject being a favourite of mine. Gregory's Girl has been released as a novel but the cover doesn't do justice to the subject matter, hopefully this interpretation does it proud.