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.
Pantone mugs
If you are colourblind you can forget about a career in aviation. Make-up? Also not for you. Lollypop person? Ten points for good intentions. Assisting Patricia Field? OK yeah, but c'mon.
In all, it's slim pickings. And who would have thought Pantone - those Nazis of the spectrum since 1962 - cared? But they're throwing you a bone in the form of Pantone mugs, stamped with the code of their colour.
max design ‘n' shit
Max was tracing lines on paper at Pushka one afternoon. Tim the owner kept passing him, leering over curiously. Max was outlining the figures of dogs, bears, birds and matching their heads up with the bodies of men in dashing outfits.
These characters have come to life in unexpected places in Melbourne.
The Melbourne Design Market
Tired of busting your nuts Mr T-style in Melbourne's department stores, tripping over Megan Gale and Miss Universe while you're just trying to haggle down a Clinique gift pack, attempting to impress your ungrateful family with presents traded for the very sweat of your brow and the ache of your bones down the blue-sky mines this holiday season?
Well, bust them no more.
TextaQueen’s 2008 Colour-In Calendar
Chloe suffered the jeering nonsense of wowser conservatism when she sailed to Melbourne in 1880. Generations have since filtered out such prudery. Not only can we shamelessly share a drink with Chloe in a Melbourne pub like she's a mate (a, um, very naked mate) but we can purchase an interactive calendar of salon nudes.
Genki Happy Springtime Caravan
Spit out your tobacco. Take a shower. This springtime Genki invite you to do away with trailer trash.
The Springtime Happy Caravan will be far from what the Timmins family call home by featuring Genki's family of designers; Lover, Gen Kay, Tatty Devine, House of Baulch , Chip Chop, Built by Wendy, Rittenhouse.
2x4
Not a plank of dimensional lumber, not a 1998 film about Irish labourers directed by Jimmy Smallhorne, not a Metallica song off Load (1996) or a Blind Melon song off Soup, not an NYC design studio. Sure, these guys with their online t-shirt store have got some competition in the name game but soon 2x4 (the online t-shirt store) will be top o’ that list on Wikipedia.
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