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PATTERNS AND OTHER STORIES

Monday, December 16, 2013

Sometimes we see exhibitions that draw attention to unknown legacies. Interwoven Connections: The Stoddard Templeton Design Studio and Design Library, 1843-2005 is one of them. We had a closer look…
What happens when manufacture and design go hand in hand? What is the legacy and historical relevance of this kind of fusion? The current exhibition Interwoven [...]

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Happily ever after being major scaled

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Shifting minor to major, let’s drop some fluoxetine and then click here.

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DROP CAPS

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The art of decorative lettering seems to be a particularly American craft, and sometimes enviably so. So no surprise that Penguin US should have come up with the idea for a special edition of lettered-cover classics, and who better to face the task than Jessica Hirsche, who has already crafted so many of our McSweeney’s [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: INVENTORY

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Hardly a new title with eight biannual issues under their vintage leather belts, Inventory is somewhat of a bible for those who appreciate hand-crafted mountain boots that will last you forever or anything else that has written ‘authentic’ in capital letters all over it. Based in Vancouver and attached to a fashion store of the [...]

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CURIOUS ICONIC CRAFT

Friday, June 14, 2013

Browse through any ‘Best Magazine Cover’ lists of the past five years, chances are you will find our favourite film magazine Little White Lies somewhere near the top. With its curious illustrative approach, it struck out from any magazine shelf and ‘inspired’ a whole range of offbeat printed matter. So it was somewhat sad news [...]

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LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD III

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

My personal Top 5 of the 50 Creative Ways to Repurpose, Reuse and Upcycle Old Things of Twisted Sifter:
Top 1: Turn Old Credit Cards Into Guitar Picks

Top 2: Repurpose a Card Catalogue Into a Mini Bar

Top 3: Upcycle Old Light Bulbs Into Candles

Top 4: Repurpose Old CD Holders Into Bagel Storage Device

Top 5: Use Old [...]

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LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD II

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Berlin’s first concept store for upcycling fashion, the Upcycling Fashion Store, has moved and reopened on March 1 at Anklamerstrasse – find out what’s new!
On the photo: rebuilt sink and board with coat pegs of bicycle brakes by El Reinventor and Sag+Sal bags.
Upcycling Fashion Store
Anklamerstrasse 17, 10115 Berlin
Mon-Fri 11 am – 7 pm, Sat noon [...]

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LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Like recycling, upcycling is a kind of waste prevention – but in a very creative way.
WE UPCYCLE is a blog by Lisa Schultz and Magdalena Akantisz, two students from the University of applied arts in Vienna, on which they posted 30 things they created out of waste materials for 30 days in a row. For [...]

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Reams of Broken Skateboards

Sunday, February 24, 2013

If you ever wondered if there is a life after death for skateboards.

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MADE IN GERMANY: SONIC PIECES

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

This time, ‘Made in Germany’ may be taken quite literally, since Berlin-based label Sonic Pieces has a rather unusual approach to that object called CD (or vinyl): in times where downloads and MP3s have taken over the music industry, Sonic Pieces are heading exactly in the opposite direction of craft and hands-on personal engagement, packaging [...]

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