Pet Shop Boys: the Brand

Fun for Friday (at least, for PSB fans): Adrian Shaughnessy over at Design Observer examines the brand image of the Pet Shop Boys. PSB are celebrated at the National Portrait Gallery in London in an exhibition highlighting their "sustained production of a 'look' suffused with style, wit, art-world sensibility and pop-culture savvy." As someone who was a young artist in the 80s, intrigued and influenced by the covers of my collection of PSB cassettes, I find this unexpected (but well-deserved) honor pretty exciting (the diehard PSB fans come out of the woodwork in the DO comment session).