David N Atkinson

@dnatkinson.bsky.social

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Graphic designer / DJ of The Tone Shift radio show on http://loose.fm http://mastodon.social/@DNAtkinson http://instagram.com/thetoneshift http://mixcloud.com/TheToneShift

CD cover. Not the photo of Ligeti I’d have chosen but hey
CD cover
CD cover
CD cover
LP cover
Copy of Dexter Gordon’s ‘Go’ – an album whose cover is a masterpiece of clean, modernist graphic design – with a whopping great *unremovable* yellow hype sticker slapped over the artist’s surname, like having Alain Ducasse make you a cappon magro and then squirting Daddies sauce all over it
Album cover featuring a lovely b&w photo of Lee and Warne looking relaxed and cool and having a laugh
Chico Buarque 'Construção' cover
Dave Bartram from Showaddywaddy. Bewember them?
Black & white shot of end-terrace corner pub, 1960s
Detail of poster below. The concert costs 20 shillings and the tickets are available via the box office or ‘Computicket’
Cover of Be Here Now by the band Oasis. The band members, and various random objects, are arranged around an outdoor swimming pool. Partly submerged in the water are a classic red telephone box and a rolls royce
Guardian headline: ‘Behold the sunbrella, fashion’s stealth accessory for a heatwave’
Album cover
LP cover. The band are wearing Nudie suits and standing outside a wooden shack in the Mojave desert. The pink and blue type is very swooshy and very 1969
Cover to the deejay mix album Fabric Live 71
The Spotify result for a Google search: ‘Idle Moments - Album by Grant Green 19996 songs, 1 hr 4 min © 1999 Blue Note Records’
Georges Clemenceau or possibly the Lorax
Unfeasibly OTT ornate polished wood wraparound workstation that M. Clemenceau must have not so much ‘sat at’ as ‘been enveloped by’
Home-printed CD insert featuring a grid of centre labels from vinyl singles
Captain Link Hogthrob, First Mate Piggy and Doctor Julius Strangepork, the crew of the spacecraft Swinetrek, from the recurring Muppet Show segment Pigs in Space
Martin Freeman on a BBC Four show where guests choose their favourite R&B and soul albums. He’s holding a vinyl copy of the album (and sporting a rather nice yellow and white striped oxford button down shirt)
Shot from a TV show of a computer screen displaying a search results page. The top (fake) result is relevant to the plot of the show; the rest are presumably the genuine results of the search term at the time, the second of which refers to Charlie Harper, the lead singer of English punk band UK Subs
Clothing label exactly as described by Halen
Me holding a CD digipak
My hand holding a CD jewel case
I’m holding a CD jewel case
‘experts recommend wearing facial SPF every day, even if you’re staying indoors’
Skunky from The Phoenix kids’ comic strip Bunny vs Monkey. He’s connecting a reel-to-reel tape recorder to a device, surmounted by a gramophone horn, upon which is a brass plate identifying it as ‘The Jürgenson’
Alfie soundtrack LP cover on a record player
‘Impact: the breakthrough to the exciting world of stereo sound’ compilation LP
Dr Robert
‘[Andy Woolley] was elected as council leader with 25 votes, of which 21 were cast by Reform councillors and the remaining came from the council’s three Conservative councillors and its sole independent, Stephen Shing. The authority’s other 24 present councillors, made up of 13 from the Liberal Democrats and 11 from the Green Party, had voted for Lib Dem group leader Kathryn Field’
Tubby Hayes (vibraphone) and Charles Mingus (bass) from the Aurelius Rex band in the 1962 film All Night Long
A copy of ‘Citadel’ by Martha Sprackland
JOAN DIDION – SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM MARTHA SPRACKLAND – CITADEL WILL McPHAIL – IN NAOYA SHIGA – RECONCILIATION ANDREW GALLIX – LOREN IPSUM SAM REID – THE PIN JAR
Post by @robmanuel.b3ta.com ‘Hotel thoughts #428 Seeing as I'm incapable of making tea with teabags on strings with those little bits of cardboard on the end without the cardboard ending up in the tea, maybe they should be made of hard little biscuits instead?’
Window of a lighting shop with a hastily-handwritten notice
ridiculous geometric hound drawing
‘Swan Silvertones, who were based in Knoxville in the 1940s, bore the name of their early radio sponsor, Swan’s Bakery. For decades, Swan’s carried on a rivalry with Kern’s as this city’s leading baker of bread.’
Apostrophe crime
Andy from Andy’s Dinosaur Adventure
Private Frazer
Basement Jaxx – Romeo DESTINY'S CHILD SURVIVOR destiny's child independent women KELIS CAUGHT OUT THERE kylie can't get you out of my head MIS-TEEQ SCANDALOUS NELLY HOT IN HERRE new kingdom good times OUTKAST MS JACKSON JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE CRY ME A RIVER VERVE SHE'S A SUPERSTAR Kathryn Williams - Shop Window
detail of Unch magazine spread, featuring puzzles by setters Liari and Light
Double LP cover perched on the lid of a record player
Photo of text; the term o’clock is typeset with a circumflex over the first o instead of an apostrophe after it
Glycine Airman ‘1953 Vintage’. Off-white dial; black arabics, even numbers prominent, odd numbers smaller; steel 24-hr bezel; date window with cyclops at 3 o’clock (well, *6 o’clock*), fauxtina’d hands; black nylon strap
Cover of Unch issue 3. The background is full-bleed yellow; the graphic cover image is a hugely enlarged manicule (i.e. pointing hand) character printed bright red and pointing across to the right, superimposed on which is a chunky arrow with a 3D shadow, printed in black and pointing down. The ‘unch’ masthead is reversed out in white
Photo of LP cover on a record player
Photo of LP sleeve perched on the lid of a record player
Pair of innocuous-looking, brightly-coloured, plastic-handled knives. Don’t be fooled; they’ll have your arm off
Detail of map with route going roughly south-east
Close-up of the interactions stats under the quoted post; the likes says ‘1,2 tn’
LP cover, featuring a cropped illustration of a racing cyclist in black and orange, isolated against a pale green-grey background. It’s propped up on a record player in action