Melbourne Design Market
Just when you thought they couldn't cram more than 16,000 people into Fed Square's underground carpark, they're shooting for 17,000 this Sunday. The Melbourne Design Market is basically the Glastonbury of the independent design shopping world.
Sure, there were a lot of baby products there last time, but, you know, people have babies.
ACCA Bookshop
Taking a tape measure, determine the dimensions of your coffee table. Proceed with tape measure to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Turn left through the door towards shelves where catalogues are displayed. Note the drastically reduced sale prices. Take in hand a catalogue by Barbara Kruger.
Kanga Kanga
Tucked away above Russell Street, Kanga Kanga stocks - in their words - "Cool Asian Magazines". Visiting the store is like taking a crash course in Japanese youth culture in all its loud, fickle and furiously paced glory. From the retina-searing design of Nail Venus (a bi-monthly nail art publication) to the austere coolness of the design quarterly +81 there's something for all tastes.
Five Boroughs
The five boroughs are used to describe the distinct areas of New York City to avoid confusing it as one large whole of geographical space. It is also a little store in East Brunswick with some big principles: to stock goods that are high in quality, low run, handmade and look pretty on a shelf.
To fit in with these rules, they stock goods such as a replicated ceramic version of the iconic New York coffee cups (pictured).
EvoShop
It seems they're multiplying, one DVD rental of An Inconvenient Truth at a time.
The do-gooder population of Green Extremists may be carving it up on their solar-powered high horses and causing you grief by measuring every breath for greenhouse gases. But there are some eco-friendly folk who humbly want to help you breathe easy.
Glitzern
If you've spent any time shopping for vintage in Melbourne you're sure to have had an impossibly fashionable woman with a wild blonde afro look after you. Her hairdo can now be found wedged within the four walls of Melbourne's smallest and newest accessories shop, ‘Glitzern' in Crossley Street.
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