Castor and Pollux - Brighton's favourite beachfront gallery & bookstore

Julia Trigg poster

Our next artist’s show is Julia Trigg. She is a local graphic designer who makes digital collages using all kinds of typography.  Her artwork reflects a love of paper ephemera and often uses found printed matter in her compositions.

This means there is no end to the experimentation with colour, composition, scale and texture. She creates lively, graphic pieces using ham radio cards from the 1920s, wood block type and hand written messages, stamps and envelopes, postcards and letters.

More details to come but the exhibition opens on September 17th, so email us if you would like an invitation. You will receive one if you are on our mailing list.

A favourite of design blogs for a little while, Japanese masking tape hasn’t really been available outside Japan until recently. We aren’t sure, but Castor and Pollux could be the first stockist in Brighton/the South coast …

Each roll of pretty Japanese masking tape is 15 mm (about 1/2″) wide x 15 m (about 50′) long made of japanese washi paper. perfect for decorating packages, gift wrapping and scrapbooks.

We have sets of three, six and ten in gorgeous colours. Much wrapping fun to be had!!

string of lights

These lights from Cable & Cotton - a local Hove firm - have been flying out of the shop … they come in lots of colourways and cost £34.95 for a 35 lamp set. The best thing about them is that they look great switched on or off!

Squirrel candleholder

Just arrived from New York is our new collection of fab pottery from Jonathan Adler.

This cute candleholder with ‘midnight’ glaze costs £95. Also new for this year are poodles, foxes, dachshund bookends and elephant bottle stoppers!

You can see some of our new stock here.

Eskimo Curlew

We are very pleased to announce an exhibition of vintage prints by Charley Harper at Castor and Pollux from 3 July 2010 and throughout the Summer.

The show includes designs made for The Ford Times in the 1950s and ‘60 as well as later, limited edition screen prints of his iconic birds and animals.

You can see all the prints that are available here.

There are giclee prints here.

You can see posters here.

For more information about this hugely innovative graphic artist click here.