The Melbourne Design Market

From the time of Tom Baker and even before that, scarves have always been the key to an outfit.

Teamed with the bleakest of ensembles, a jaunty...

More interesting to look at than a Moleskine and just as satisfying to hold, Rebound Books inject a lease of new life into dust-covered hardbacks.

Writer’s...

If you think about the last time someone turned to you and said, "Hey, I like you!" Chances are you'll stare wistfully out the window and crave...

iD Magazine is genius. Why? Because they can cover interesting fashion and culture without coming across as a bunch of self-indulgent twits.

If...

Apparently, the first denim jeans were made for a bunch of sailors in the Genoese Navy in the 1600s, and they were dragged in large mesh nets behind the...

If there was an Opulent Bible, it would be a compiled back-catalogue of The Fader magazine, and we would refer to it as "The Good Book of All...

Attention: those of you who have lived in a burrow for far too long. After turning a blind eye to independent publishing, it's about time you peel open...

From the outside, Shoya Japanese Restaurant looks pretty humble, even missable, like any other restaurant on the China Town strip. Positioned next to...

On a non-descript corner on the Paris end of Wellington Street, the not-so-secret-anymore meals at The Gem have been warming the souls of the Collingwood...

If only you'll only let a white labcoat-clad pseudo-pharmacist-cum-beauty-technician tell you what your skin needs, we have some ointment-related news:...

Communal tables are fun in theory; banquets of towering cakes, stuffed pigs and candelabras have appeared in almost every given Shakespearean setting...

My Beautiful Laundrette? That's a bit optimistic. ‘My rundown student share-house with some washing machines' is a bit closer to the mark. Not as...

Why is newer necessarily better? Sure, there's a place for faster, smaller, thinner, more effective - but there's also a place (often closer to our heart)...

Sugar-related funnies aside, Donuts Deluxe is the newest shop filling the 0 in Melbourne's retail cool. The genii behind the project - Ben and Sam Totty...

Hey Melbourne, as of 4pm today, get ready for "a breath of fresh beer air in a world of same same." Somewhat confusingly The Pond is not a body...

Before there was Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon and Shirow Masamune’s Ghost In The Shell there was Astro Boy and his creator...

Growing up in public can be tough. Just ask Shirley Temple or Macaulay Culkin. The Olsen twins also did it, and others will be forced to do it, as long...

Think back to primary school winter wash outs. It's pouring outside, your polar fleece track pants smell of damp and playing poison ball on the basketball...

There is something so alluring about people who should have it all, but seem perilously close to losing it all instead. In Bright Lights Big City, Jay...

Definition: To test an icicle. Primitive men used to test icicles to ensure their sturdiness prior to using them as a stabbing weapon. (source: theurbandictionary.com)

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