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Wherever you look, on the road, at the
beach or in the card shop you’re never too
far way from a VW Campervan.
What is it about the VW Camper? popular, Tom Dickins of Tom Dickins Fine Art
The enduring image of classic split-screen just shrugged his shoulders and said: “It’s a
Kombis can be found everywhere – from classic image isn’t it? It’s something people
T-shirts to tea towels, posters to playing cards seem to identify with in a nostalgic sense.”
and all manner of printable matter in between. Tom’s just released a third design from
And greetings cards of course. Martin Wiscombe entitled Love Camper that
You didn’t have to look hard to catch sight sums up perfectly the summer of love ethos of
of the iconic camper at Top Drawer or Spring the Sixties (man). Tom also confi rmed that the
Fair and once you start, they seem to come at previous designs: Classic campervan and Pop
you from all angles. Camper were still top sellers.
When asked why the Camper was so What’s also clear is that the VW is a
predominately male image although The Art edomi
FFile has attempted to straddle the
ggender divide with its cute Christmas
CCamper image.
Christmas and campers also proves
toto be a match made in heaven, or in
ththe case of Big Fish Little Fish cards,
SStirling, in Scotland. Their lazert -cut,
fl ifl ittert ed Kombi carrying a Christmas
treee manages to combine the two icons
nnicelyic .
People seem to connect the Camper
tto anothero a , simpler age when families
wowould head off for their hols in a rented
DDormobile. Then thero e’s the whole surf
Big Fish, Little Fish
vibvibe that seems to have taken over the e
worworld. Not many of us can actually ride
aa surfboar su d but at least we can dream of
ddriving a T2 Bay Wriv indowed Camper to
thethe beach.
24 Greetings Today
Cardmix - Blakey
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