Choose to celebrate Trainspotting at 30

Mark Blamire was working for design agency Stylorouge in 1995. Then 26, he had never made a film poster before. With three colours – black, white and bright orange – and the Helvetica typeface, Trainspotting was announced to the world. “It was the first film poster I’d ever designed, so I wasn’t bogged down with cliches or visual metaphors. I think that’s why it was refreshing and new,” Blamire says.

Thirty years on from Trainspotting’s release, Blamire – known in the art world simply as Blam – is curating a star-filled exhibition, Trainspotters #T30 which marks the anniversary. Buy this week’s mag for an exclusive preview!

Also inside

• Guy Martin’s parents taught him the value of working hard, and those 78 hours a week in the garage put him on the right road, he says in a Letter To My Younger self
• Zen and the art of motor traffic maintenance
• If swooning over Heathcliff, remember he was a really terrible landlord
• We launch this year’s kids cover competition, with guest judge Axel Scheffler
• And Bristol vendor Darren tells us what he enjoys about selling Big Issue

Plus much more!

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