PRODUCT + London Delft Tableware

Just received an email promotion, nothing unusual there I hear you say, with the Credit Crunch every Tom, Dick and Harry is trying to sell you something. Well this is an exception; Lovegrove & Repucci have what has to be the best Delft Tableware around, London and New York street themed blue Delft graphic prints applied to White Porcelain, lovely jubbly! I think I just might part with my hard earned cash and buy myself the London Delft Tableware $100 five piece place setting.

Exhibition + Amilas presents Alchemy

I'm a sucker for a bit of Street Art or Graffiti Art, must have been growing up in Bristol surrounded by some pioneering work from the likes of Banksy. This FREE exhibition started last night (Wednesday 3rd December) on Carnaby Street. "Celebrating their 1st Anniversary, Amilas are hosting their first ever real world show featuring new work from acclaimed artists Peter Kennard, Solo One, Static and DiRQuo". Get yourself down there or check out their website for some original artworks or limited edition prints for the not so wealfy out there.

Amilas presents Alchemy: 38 Carnaby Street, London
Opening Times: Mon - Saturday 11am - 7pm Sunday 12 - 6pm

Illustration + Do the green thing

"green thing’ is a public service campaign that aims to inspire people to lead a greener life through simple lifestyle adjustments". Yeah whatever! I'm more interested in the nice pretty pictures ooooooooooh shiny nice things!. Green Thing was created by Andrew Rae (Mr Illustrator); Tom Baker (Mr Animation); Oliver Smith (Mr Motion Graphics and a few other people who did stuff that does not interest me much; Mr Theme Tune, Mr Vocals and Mr Script Zzzzzzzzzzz!. For more info and more shinny illustration check out vimeo.com

Exhibition + SUPERTOYS

Heading to Bristol in 2 weeks, (Home Sweet Home) and stumbled across the SUPERTOYS Exhibition whilst looking for something to fill up the right side of my brain. Taking place at the Arnolfini on Sat 22 Nov - Sun 18 Jan 2009, 10am - 6pm (Except Mondays). "The exhibition is part factory, part zoo and part play area. It will include opportunities for visitors to destroy, examine and re-make toys. Some works will develop during the exhibition as teams of robot experts and artists work to modify toy dogs". "In the lead up to Christmas (and after), Supertoys explores a new way of thinking about toys". With the old Credit Crunch hitting home you can't beat the price £0.00 (Free).

Retail + The North Face, Japan

Fifty Six! Yes, it's been 56 days since my last Post, shame on me. Anyway this months Post 'The North Face retail store, Japan' comes to you with a shout out to Big Rich for the subtle kick up the ass. This store looks more like 'Stone Island' not North Face. Where have all the Navy and Black Fleeces gone?. Go check it out the photos at Flickr.com for yourself.

T-shirts + LaFraise (Be Free)

It's been 20 days since my last blog confession... Well here it is; hot off the digital press (an email) from Spreadshirt.net 'LaFraise.com' a fresh t-shirt website. Take a look around and maybe buy yourself a sweet tee (organic cotton too) from €19. 'Be Free' is one of my favorites so far, cool illustration style, comical and value for money, well there is a credit crunch on!.

Exhibition + Cold War Modern Design 1945-70

My Double Agent 'Mr X' informed me that there is an exhibition coming up at the V&A 'Cold War Modern Design 1945-70', running from the 25th September 2008 - 11th January 2009 there's plenty of time to get yourself down there and check out some Top Secret Cold War Designs.For Exhibition Information, Tickets, Events and Shop (some great cold war books: Civil Defence Handbook No.10: Advising the Householder on Protection against Nuclear Attack) go to www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/cold-war-modern

Typography + Type Trumps

Anyone for a game of Type Trumps? "Right! Legibility 7 (Font: Avant Garde) that beats your legibility 3 (Font: Frankfurter)". Hand 'em over I win... Designed by Rick Banks a Graphic Designer from SEA Design London, Type Trumps is for all you Typographers out there who can remember the good old days of Top Trumps. For more info go to www.Face37.com

WEBSITE + Blu Blu

From the streets of Buenos Aires the folks behind BluBlu.org have a funky site showcasing some of their works; videos (with neat animation), drawings and photos of spaces they have turned into street artworks (London, Berlin, Palestine, Sao Paulo to name a few). If you need a fix of contemporary street art this should last you to your next score. Enjoy!

MEGAZINE + Flashy!! Megazine Of Kicksculture

No it's not a typo! 'Megazine' a digital style Magazine where the pages are still flickable, Nice!. FLASHY!! is a magazine of kickculture, check it out for yourself with a nice cup of Earl Grey and some Chocolite Hob Nob's (now that's a Typo) Slurp, slurp, dunk, dunk.

FASHION + KIND Deluxe Knitwear @ KK OUTLET

Thanks to a friend, (you know who you are 'Little Miss ????') I had the pleasure of attending "The Different Image by KIND" exhibition last night at the KK OUTLET, London (a guerrilla store and exhibition space in Hoxton Square). With exhibits from Melanie Bonajo and Anne de Vries starring Kind and a guest appearance by myself and some Italian Beer and Cheese Sticks it's an exhibition well worthing stopping by if your in the Hood of Hoxton. Why not pick up some really quirky and luxe Knitwear (from £40+, Bargain!). Starting 15th May Ending 30th May 2008. Enjoy!

T-shirts + 5PREVIEW (Punk-minimalism)

Thanks to our friends at WGSN I've just heard about 5PREVIEW a new punk-inspired T-shirt brand. Based in Rome, run by a Swedish and Italian design duo Emeli and Diego. Thought it was worth a mention as the bold graphic tee prints are floating my boat. The Mickey and Mini Mouse balaclaver's are pretty cool too (Cartoon Terrorists).

For more in-depth info and how to get your hands one of their master pieces check out: 5PREVIEW's blog style website.

Exhibition + China Design Now

I was out last Thursday for a drink or two (nothing unusual there) and stumbled across the China Design Now Exhibition window display at Liberty's, London. Took a couple of pics on my new Phone/Camera thing (technology, bluh!) but they were too poor a quality to Post so I checked out the V&A's website for more details on the Exhibition, I would highly recommend you check it out to; Take me there...

Typography + I Love Typography

For all your Typography needs get yourself along to ILoveTypography.com. It has everything and more you might want to find out about typography; Identify a Font, Find Fonts/Font Wall among other useful devices. I'm liking the iLT Dashboard Widget for Mac users, it keeps you up to date with all the latest articles and posts on ILT's website come blog. Subscribe via RSS, join the Web 2.0 revolution.

E-commerce + Polyvore (a revolution in ecommerce)

"Nearly a decade has passed and the ecommerce experience has stagnated without reaching its full potential. Polyvore is a unique, easy-to-use web-based application for mixing and matching products from any online store. Items are pulled together into a visual set of products that can be shared with anyone. Each product within the set is then linked back to the online store where it is available for purchase." Polyvore. You're not wrong there luv, role on Web 3.0. I think we might be seeing a glimmer of future of e-Tail here?. Let's just hope they have timed it right to release their me-Tail offering, it would be a shame for this revolution to not come into power.

Photography + Contemporary Street

It's been a while since my last Post! "Note to myself: must try harder to feed my Blog" Worth checking out for the pure humor in every photograph, Matt Stuart's Contemporary Street Photography has a real charm about it. The everyday scenes everyday people miss.
For more info and amusing photos look in on MattStuart.com

Idea + Sleevefacing

Just this minute found out about a really cool craze 'Sleevefacing', from my Old Man of all people (61 years old too) Respect Daddy Cool!. Get down with the Kids like my Pops at Flickr or Facebook or go direct to Sleeveface.com. Don't get left behind get on the band wagon...

Book + NeoGeo

NeoGeo + A New Edge to Abstraction
"NeoGeo documents the new flirtation with geometrical forms and solid colours in today’s design. The examples in the book make it clear that this current trend to abstract work is not a nostalgic phenomenon; rather, it borrows from illustration, collage, typography and computer art to create a whole new visual language". Bloody hell, arty-farty synopsis... That aside this book has some really nice work featured under it's cover. Check it out at Die Gestalten Verlag

Exhibition + Breaking The Rules

I spotted this poster on the London Underground last week: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937. A Free Exhibition well worth checking out if Typography is your bag (typography is one of my favorite things, just above high heeled shoes, Joke!).
Running from 9 November 2007 - 30 March 2008 at The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. For more information visit:
www.bl.uk/breakingtherules

PRODUCT + Suck My Bic

That's right I said "Suck My Bic". I came across this little gem on Design Boom's web site this morning. Utilizing peoples strange habit's, (sucking and chewing the ends of pens) these sweeties are just like lolly pops but much tastier. Available in 5 different flavours, yum, yum.

WEBSITE + Design Police

Watch out!... here come the Rozzers.
Coming to a design studio near you the Design Police will be pounding the streets looking out for Design Criminals, you know who you are; Do you have shocking Kerning, Do you use Comic Sans, Do you not know the difference between Helvetica and Gill Sans? You'll soon be up before the Wigs in court, sentenced to 5 years Community Design Service for giving designers a bad name.

Check out The Design Police - 'Bringing Bad Design to Justice' and get your mitts on a Visual Enforcement Kit. Nice!

PRODUCT + 3.5" Floppy Disk CDRs

Floppy Disk! What's that? says all the young un's out there... well before Facebook, CDs and DVDs around the time of Cassette Tapes, Yeah! before iPods etc there was a data storage device called a Floppy Disk. Now re-born as a recordable compact discs shaped like a 3.5'' floppy disk with the storage space of 200 MB, it won't be long before we have a 'Digital Retro Revolution'. I'm liking the white x blue, red, green and yellow sticky labels, just like the good old days... Check out Design Boom for more info.

PRODUCT + Pixel Notes Wallpaper

Check out this little gem above the "Pixel Notes" wall, I could do with one of these in my bedroom to offload all the shit in my head when I can not sleep at night Zzzzzzzzzzzz. "It is essentially a wall several layers deep of post it notes. Use one and peel it off to reveal another colored post-it below". Cool!