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THIS IS ME / THIS IS ALSO ME / DAVID SHRIGLEY

mono.kultur #9 cover star David Shrigley has a super nice new pillowcase set available through our friends at Third Drawer Down!

STATIONERY COMPOSITIONS

I have yet to meet a graphic designer who does not fall prey to a slight obsession with stationery – drawers full of unused notebooks, desks cluttered with pencils from Japan or rubber stamps from Poland. A mildly addictive habit shared/exploited by the lads at London-based Present&Correct, that mecca for stylish household / office wares [...]

FREE DUMBO FEATHER IPAD APP

Maybe you’ve heard of Dumbo Feather and/or would like to know more? In keeping with their ‘pass it on’ tradition they’ve recently launched an iPad app and with this app they’ve made a pretty big decision to give all of their content away for free!

Spell of the Authors name

Beware of the very angry writer! Whistleblowing and wicked warts, undisclosed officials confirm Snowden doesn’t have a finger in this leak pie, nor does the marketing department.

SOCIAL VALUES FIRST

Fairphone started in 2010 as an awareness project about conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the sourcing of these minerals is fuelling in the DR Congo. 14 hours left to order the limited first edition of the Fairphone – made of conflict-free, fair resources.

FAUX MARBLING

What is it that makes marble and its pattern so omnipresent these days? Originally composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, today the motive of marble is not only used in contemporary art, but also in fashion and textile production. Commonly used for sculpture and as building material, it now seems to be trendy to envelop the [...]

LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD III

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 [...]

LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD II

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 [...]

LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD

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 [...]

Time Flies

The incredible people at Dexter Sinister not only dropped the fourth issue of their fine Bulletins of the Serving Library series this week, but also ‘adjusted’ this beautiful reverse-engineered Casio digital watch, which makes it even easier to grasp the irreversible flow of time.

Here’s how it works: A tiny computer inside the ‘Watch Wyoscan 0.5 [...]