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STORE OF THE MONTH: DAMAGE / ROTTERDAM

Anyone who has ever been to Rotterdam will certainly confirm that it is an odd place. With the city lost somewhere between industrial areas and a vast port, it has a curious sense of being continuously just around the corner. But strange places often foster the most interesting surprises, and the creative output of Rotterdam [...]

THIRD DRAWER DOWN CELEBRATION

Join the 10% off Third Drawer Down celebration! That’s 10% off of everything, lock stock and barrel! The Third Drawer Down Prahan Belated Birthday Bash gets underway Saturday (28th June) next week!
New Third Drawer Down Prahran Store
155 Greville Street
Prahran VIC 3181
Australia

STORE OF THE MONTH: TRIPLE MAJOR / BEIJING & SHANGHAI

Concept store might be a tired old word by now, but the concept of a selection of brands and items guided by personal taste and convictions rather than trends remains just as relevant as ever – especially when it comes to China, that coveted ‘future market’ where new shopping malls and luxury flagship stores seem [...]

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 [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: CASA BOSQUES / MEXICO CITY

We imagine Mexico City is not exactly the place to go for obscure art books and magazines, but then again, maybe now it is. Casa Bosques Bookstore is the third project by Casa Bosques, an initiative by the design and branding studio Savvy, to produce a range of objects, and recently chocolates, and, well, now [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: RASTER EDITIONS / WARSAW

Poland is so close that we tend to take it for granted, when of course we shouldn’t, since beautiful things are happening eastwards. For instance with renowned Raster gallery in Warsaw, who some galleries here might actually want to take a closer look at, and let’s leave it at that. For lack of a decent [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: LIBRARY OF ARTS / PARIS

It’s a simple question that lies behind Paris’ très cool art book store Library of Arts: Which global concept around art could combine aesthetics, objects and sharing information? Answer is of course the good old-fashioned book, and for a creative consulting agency like LO/A Studio, the step forward to actually opening a space dedicated to [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: ALLSCRIPT / SINGAPORE

There are still quite a few dark spots in our world map of where mono.kultur is available, but two of them have just lightened up as we have a new distributor for Singapore and Malaysia, in the form of Allscript. Distributor, subscription service and kiosk all in one, Allscript stock pretty much anything imaginable, which [...]

ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: DAY JOB MAGAZINE

For all of you who feel like your job is pointless or lame, doomed to vanish in the rising tide of white collars and blue chips…well maybe it might be, but Day Job Magazine doesn’t care.  A rather sociological songbook for the unsung heroes of everyday life started in 2012, it features utomechanics, barbershops, calligraphers, and [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: TABLE OF CONTENTS / PORTLAND

In the epicentre of cool, namely rainy Portland, you can find the beautiful Table of Contents, one of those prime examples of modern shopping, or what commonly goes under the tired banner of ‘concept store’, meaning little else than the offerings being carefully selected and presented, and shouldn’t all stores do that, really? Anyway, Table [...]