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Harland miller is a british artist and author who is best known for his largescale, photorealistic paintings, posters, and prints of vintage penguin book covers. The images on the wrapping paper are a selection of penguin book covers. Harland miller is a british writer and artist, born in yorkshire in 1964, best known for producing a series of paintings based on penguin book covers, including international lonely guy and fuck art lets dance. Book art by harland miller blonde ambitions harland miller. Choose your favorite penguin designs and purchase them as wall art, home decor, phone cases, tote bags, and more. One of penguins strategies was to implement standardised designs for book covers. Framed penguin art and framed penguin artwork shop at. Blonde but not forgotten i love painted book covers, which this may or may not be harland miller i want one of his prints so bad. Penguin love upcycled vintage dictionary art print 8x10, unframed.
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