Easy On The Eye

08/08/2025

I have been archiving some old CDRs lately, trying to work through these before it becomes impossible to access the data! The chance that any of this artwork will be needed again is remote but it does allow me to rabbit on a bit about the jobs and how they were tackled on the easy on the eye website. Here is a box set I did for Connoisseur Records back in 2001, or rather this is the alternate version I did for the Japanese release. You can see more images on the website:
https://easyontheeye2.wordpress.com/design-work/deep-purple-on-the-road-4cd-box-set/?preview_id=106345&preview_nonce=8de03525eb&preview=true

24/07/2025

The latest page header is from a vintage tea towel, produced for the Butlins organisation in the 1960s. Screenprinted on pure Irish linen it has been retired from dishwashing duties since it came our way and I finally got it framed and on the wall last year. The colours are just so redolent of the seaside imagery we are all familiar with.

24/07/2025

I really like these old street photographs. They were taken on vintage (even then) movie cameras in the 1920s and '30s and sold to you as a souvenir postcard strip of three frames. The hazy, dreamy image is a result of a small lens and other technical deficiencies, but for me this somehow more accurately reflects people's memories of events as time slips by. And all trace of this couple's stroll down a busy Great Yarmouth street with their new-born would have vanished were it not for the busy street photographer. This image comes from the collection of Paul Godfrey, and it's just my way of remembering him, as well as our many shared photo finds.

22/05/2025

Say hello to Miss Broadstairs, filling in between engagements by working as a beach photographer back in the Sixties! Miss Broadstairs is seen handling one of the big reflex cameras used by the trade and she will feature in an upcoming Easy On The Eye book devoted to this largely forgotten trade called Go Home On A Postcard. And she was in good company, we found out last week that comedian Peter Cook also spent time taking portraits on the beach at Torquay where his grandparents lived before he went up to University. Find out more about the book here - it will be published as soon as schedules allow :
https://easyontheeyebooks.co.uk/forthcoming/walking-pictures/

14/04/2025

We've not had much time to post updates lately, as our latest book The American Rhythm & Blues Photographs of Brian Smith arrived a few weeks back and so we have been extra busy sending out the pre-orders and then keeping up with new customers, as well as getting stock out to our distributors. Reaction has been very positive and we will round up some of the comments anon. Here's a nice shot from the cover of Blues & Rhythm magazine who used one of Brian's shots across the front and a very generous review.

28/11/2024

We are very pleased to be able to announce that after a long wait, Pre-Orders for Boom Boom Boom Boom - The Blues Photographs of Brian Smith have now opened. The book is currently with the printers and it is planned to ship in January 2025. Pre-ordered copies will be mailed in the order in which we get them and you will get them ahead of any other supplier (including you know who). There is a discount for pre-orders on our official shop as well:
https://easyontheeyeshop.co.uk/product/boom-boom-boom-boom-the-blues-photos-of-brian-smith-1962-1966/

26/11/2024

Our new cover photo comes from a concert by Little Richard at the Oasis club in Manchester back in 1964, taken by Brian Smith from his upcoming book of Manchester blues photos to be published by Easy On The Eye Books in January. Don't going trying to find the place, it's now a petrol station! We love the enthusiasm of the beat band hired to back Richard, and yes those are The Beatles behind them, life size blow ups on the club wall.

18/12/2023

Simon in the news again!

04/12/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCh49X4qVM&t=1s

From the collection of Steve Goldman comes a new book, The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve, containing the best of the worst as it were!In essence this forth...

04/12/2023

Our latest book, gathering rave reviews - The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve. Equal parts hilarious and disturbing with a foreword by comedian Stewart Lee. Buy it now, save £6!

https://easyontheeyeshop.co.uk/product/the-art-of-the-bizarre-vinyl-sleeve/