Shopping

Stationary set by Sort

Super stationary

To you, working people with nice big companies behind you, keeping you well-stocked in sticky notes, staplers and business cards. This brilliant hand printed stationary set by  Sort (Society of Revisionist Typographers) for the Southbank Centre (in association with Cockpit Arts), may just look like a bunch of nice thank-you cards to keep for occasional […]

Rapture & Wright doves fabric

Another day, another bird fabric

Some lovely Rapture & Wright fabric spotted in Vogue, which even the most bird-fatigued (AKA me) would find hard to resist. How to work it into this pretty complete house I hear you wondering? I’m pretty determined. After some scanning around the place, I thought the standard lamp in my kitchen could be in need […]

Open studios at Craft Central Made in Clerkenwell

Event: Made in Clerkenwell

A quick heads up – if you find yourself near Clerkenwell tomorrow night (thur 20th May, 5-8pm) or fri-sun all day from noon, check out this event where over 80 designers will be showcasing their wares. Tickets cost £2.50 and can be used throughout the three-and-a-bit day event. I’ll be flagging up my favourite spots in […]

Michelle Mason mugs

All aboard

What do you reckon to Boris’s new Routemaster design? As one geeky enough to still enjoy occasional trips on the remaining Routemasters down the Strand I’m not too sure. New designs by Michelle Mason reminded me again how lasting the image of the original is.

The yard sale

Roving reporter here, just back from Dalston. A yard sale in Dalston held by my fashionable trend-forecasting friend and her fashion-industry-working flatmate. There are details in the last sentence that led to my conviction that yard sales are Where It’s At. Along with the web search I did two minutes ago, which revealed that Paris cool […]