Polite Company are a small art and design collective based in the UK. We publish the work of some leading contemporary artists, and make products featuring their work.
Polite Notes.
Archive 1: Liverpool
We’re just about to launch a new postcard box set by the great photographer Kevin Cummins. The them for the set is post-punk Liverpool and the launch coincides with an exhibition of the images… you can find out more here:
And see the box here:
Edwyn Collins
Wildlife 1, and exhibition of drawings by Edwyn Collins started at Glasgow’s CCA, with a great opening party (including a surprise acoustic performance by Mr Collins). To coincide with the show we’ve made a limited number of box set of cards featuring some of the drawings.
The sets are available in limited numbers from:
CCA, The Lighthouse, Arnolfini, Saatchi Gallery, Barbican and Rough Trade - the are also available online from the Polite Shop. (shop.politecards.com)
We’ve just started work distributing these lovely books by Nieves… and can’t stop looking at the copies we have in the office here… things of beauty indeed. Visit their site www.nieves.ch to see/find out more.
We've launched our new POLITE SHOP
We’ve just launched the new Polite Shop, and added some great new products including a David Shrigley Skateboard Deck from our friends at Parklife in San Fransisco… click to visit (the shop, not San Fransisco)
The Pocko Times launch at Kemistry Gallery was great - rammed with lovely folk and brilliant prints… The Large prints are available for sale on the Pocko Shop..click to visit.
We’re looking forward to the launch of ‘Pocko Times’ this week. This tabloid sized publication features 64 pages of illustration and photography, and new editions will be available bi-annually. Polite are happy to be working with the Pocko Family to distribute their titles in the UK, and will be introducing them to our outlets over the next month.
…and some musical treats from Mr Daly and Friends (featuring a classic synth from the Polite keyboard collection) …
