Design - Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Melbourne and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Bug & Megs Felt
Bug & Megs are feltophiles. While the other kids were playing ponies, this crafty couple were tinkering with trinkets and fooling with finger puppets. But they soon grew tired of inferior acrylic "felt". They looked everywhere for an Australian supplier of real felt, but alas, none could be found.
Make A Plate
As it's likely you experimented with melamine Make A Plates like me at age five. Take your mind back, way back. It went a little something like this: Take your circular paper sheet; consider the potential opus; doodle with the provided pens until you're pleased as spiked punch; enshrine your illustrated vision by baking it; realise you've forgotten your mum in your family portrait; eat off it for 10 years.
Fabrics!
The Snuggie is a disgrace to all things woven and spun. Now here's a list of things to throw, wrap, wipe or wear that are versatile, yet classy, and are much more likely to get you over the line with the in-laws than an offensive fleecy straightjacket this Christmas.
Fabric 1: Obus tea towel and napkin sets (pic)
Details: Four napkins for $40, two tea towels for $45, or one tea towel and two napkins for $45, Obus, great for drips and spills and generally looking stylish.
Girlie Pains ‘Le Portraits'
With the death of the Polaroid ominous and little Kmart 1-hour photos labs closing down all over the nation, it's hard to get a ‘to have and to hold' happy snap these days. Sure we have digital! But when was the last time you got those 300 MySpace profile perfect picture shots printed on real photographic paper instead of your canon bubble-jet? And you can forget the element of surprise.
BYO Coffee Cup
How many buyers would purchase expensive surgical enhancements to their bone covers if the result looked like someone slid massive Twisties under their skin? A few outsiders, sure. The Ignatius J. Reillys of makeovers. But the market would be limited. Most people want fake to look real, with benefits.
Rhodia notebooks
Enough with this Hemingway and Picasso razzamataz. We've had it up to our document wallets with this notebook industry beat up. You know what the best writing pad in the world is? The Rhodia. It's orange, it has pages, they're all perforated, you can fold the cover up. You know what you'll look like? A person who is interested in taking notes.
Wilkintie
I once said the word 'letterpress' in a roomful of designers and I won't be making that mistake again, not without a poncho. Blubbering, sweating, the silent tears of nostalgia. No high-volume offset process can match the emotive fluids wrought by letterpress - that 20th century craft-printing art of the type freaks.
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