Shiny new super smart travel site Wander commissioned their favourite illustrators to create inspirational, journey-themed postcards which they are putting up on site at a rate of one a week. The results are pretty good.
It’s an accepted norm that women in middle age and beyond become invisible to all but dutiful grandchildren. The great appeal of New York photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s new book Advanced Style is that it places ‘women of years’ right in the vanguard of fashion. The way Cohen sees it, these women have been at the style game longest and know exactly what they are doing. The book, like Cohen’s celebrated
From Swiss design agency This Made comes this sleek, Mac shaped chopping board. It’s made from oiled, food safe apple wood (appropriately enough) and comes in a range of sizes. It will probably outlast the product it’s modelled on and only time will tell which proves more useful in the long run! Prices start at about £50 for the 13 inch.
Unlike the rest of us, Lauren Kobilnyk and Ross Macauley haven’t left their photo collection languishing on a memory card or cluttering up their computer. The Dunfermline based pair have set up Jewel in her Crown which sells these superb silk scarves, digitally printed with polaroid style photographs. Lauren says, ‘We’ve been really please with the positive feedback our first collection has generated. To have orders come in from people
These wonderful photos were taken in 1961 by Ralph Crane documenting ‘Black Cat Auditions in Hollywood’ for Life magazine. A shot of Vincent Price at the end suggests that this audition must have been for Tales of Terror (1962) by Roger Corman. Method actors all but which ones will end up on the casting couch? Via Bored Panda
Described as the ‘Forgotten Pioneer’, Alastair Morton (1910-1963) led Edinburgh Weavers to be one of the most innovative textile companies of the twentieth century. He was one of the first producers to use artists, painters and sculptors to create fabric patterns. Major figures such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Cecil Collins, as well as foreign artists such as Marino Marini, Victor Vasarely were commissioned to produce patterns. Other artist-designers
The White House tried crowdsourcing when Obama first came in. They asked the public what its main priorities should be. Legalising marijuana came up number one. Depending on your point of view it may, or may not, have worked for Obama but a version of crowd sourcing is delivering for furniture producer and retailer, Groopti. The website invites submissions from designers then people can vote to green light the production
It’s election day and here’s a great range of message laden products from Radical Tea Towel which manage to be assertively left wing and rather elegant at same time. Not since the impoverished Van Gogh used his as a canvas has the humble tea towel been pressed into so high a purpose. The tea towels start at £9 and aprons are £12. For the undomesticated political thinker, there are also greetings
Unlike MDF, cardboard furniture can’t kill you and, even better, if you’re moving house you can make your children carry the sideboard. Reinhard Dienes has designed a range of cardboard furniture for Fashion for Home that is light weight, eco friendly and – not always a given with eco ranges – it looks good. Below is the Georgia sideboard which costs £149. The furniture company, which has recently started selling online in
The floral Cath Kidston tent, ubiquitous at festivals for a few years now, broke the mould of the navy or khaki tent and now Field Candy have taken things a step further with these fantastic designs. The large, two men tents are made from high performance cotton and come complete with hammer, peg puller, manual and carry bag. Designed in Italy and manufactured in the UK, the tents cost £495