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The Velvet Underground’s association with Andy Warhol is well documented; perhaps what is less well known is the art that was actually made to promote the band’s gigs and albums during the mid-to-late 60s. A new book documents the rise of their decidedly New York art…

New from Rizzoli books, The Velvet Underground: A New York Art (edited by Johan Kugelberg) collects together a wealth of early photography of the band, alongside a wonderful archive of posters and flyers.

The book also features written contributions by VU’s Lou Reed and Mo Tucker, playwright and ex-President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, and critic Jon Savage.

The result is a fantastic collage of high and low art. Here’s a selection of some of the posters:

Published by Rizzoli; £35.

400 special editions are also being published (shown below), which come in a windowed, clamshell box alongside a vinyl slipcase that features an early version of the cover art for the band’s record, The Velvet Underground, drawn by Steve Nelson. The special edition also includes a 7″ record of two rare tracks, signed by Lou Reed and Mo Tucker. It costs £175. See rizzoliusa.com.

This week’s Workspace of the Week is TamaraNicole’s home office and guest room:

I chose this space because I believe it serves two functions very well. Not only is it an inviting place for TamaraNicole to work and be crafty, but it’s also a comfortable place for overnight guests. The daybed serves as extra seating when the space is being used as an office, and the desk doesn’t take over the room when it’s a guest room. The extremely organized workspace helps a great deal with the room serving two purposes. I know that the Winnie the Pooh theme might not speak to everyone, but it’s the concept of a dual space that I know everyone can appreciate. Thank you, TamaraNicole, for your submission to our pool.

Want to have your own workspace featured in Workspace of the Week? Submit a picture to the Unclutterer flickr pool. Check it out because we have a nice little community brewing there. Also, don’t forget that workspaces aren’t just desks. If you’re a cook, it’s a kitchen; if you’re a carpenter, it’s your workbench.

Une incroyable sélection de photographies prises au coeur de la vague. Cette série intitulée “Inside The Tube” est un travail du photographe Clark Little basé à Hawaï et travaillant uniquement avec du matériel aquatique. Plus d’images dans la suite.

Plus loin : Making Waves by Vincent Laforet

Previously on Fubiz

• The Parisians – Time For Nothing More
• Love Connection
• Axa – Evolution

This year’s Kyoorius Designyatra conference in Mumbai re-united Michael Wolff and Wally Olins on stage in a session that pulled few punches when it came to their thoughts on modern-day brand consultancies

The session at Designyatra was chaired by CR editor, Patrick Burgoyne. “Some of the quality of work and the quality of thinking that some of the major design consultancies charge people a lot of money for is obscene and absurd,” says Wolff in this extract in which the pair are asked what they think of hostile media attitudes towards branding and how design consultancies should defend themselves.

In this extract, the pair discuss their impact on both branding and anti-branding, during which Olins characterises the larger design consultancies as “machines devised to produce mediocre rubbish” and calls some of their actions “despicable”

While in this one they talk about what led them to split up

And in this more lighthearted session they talk about what drove them mad about each other

All the videos can be seen over on CRTV