Keyword results: Recycled
A Name is a Label
What do you get when you cross a well-over-it’s-use-by-date Fletcher Jones skirt, circa 1993, with a sports jacket you’d pick up from a thrift store in Frankston? Your head is aching worse than a Slurpee induced brain freeze right now, correct? Please, relax.
A Name is a Label gather old garments then stitch, layer and knot them up.
Know Your Product
There are people in this world who hoard anything from the colourfully absurd to the handy gadget. There comes a point in these people’s lives when their living room is brimming with 76 teacups, 48 lamps and 8 too many clocks on one wall. Do they pack all of their collectables into a box and plod down to their local Salvos? Or do they open their own business?
Case Study: Cath and Harvey let their accumulated kitsch homewares spill out of their living room and into a little store in Westgarth,naming it after their favourite song, ‘Know Your Product’, by ‘70s punk band The Saints.
Rebound Books
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 block could become redundant beneath the cover of a well-worn masterpiece. Each journal takes an old book cover, which is refilled with recycled denim paper and bound to create a blank notebook.
Prophyla-p-tics laptop sleeves
Do you have a rebel laptop? A cute little MacBook or PC that looks so sharp it refuses to wear a case in fear of hurting its good looks? Well, here’s news. According to Dimitri* from Computer Point*, 87% of laptop-related injuries could have been prevented with the application of a simple laptop case.
Cash Converters
Whether you're looking for some vintage audio equipment, some rare camera accessories, some entertaining video games, or an unusual wedding present, Cash Converters is for you! Specialising in jewellery, home theatre systems, appliances, tools (electrical and hand-powered) and sporting goods, Cash Converters is the second-hand trader you know and trust.
Original ISIS 1970s RADIO
It seems that the kitsch movement brought with it personality crises for many every day objects. Sofas became beds. Lamps became naked ladies holding oversized and precariously placed petals. Even skirts became shorts, disguising themselves as skirts and calling themselves 'skorts'.
If you like your knick knacks straight up, then this radio's for you.
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