Posted in Design, Op Shop, Sustainable on Jun 25th, 2008
Today I discovered that my neighbourly (and I really do literally mean neighbour) op-shop is selling earth-greetings cards, it’s a peculiar opshop in that it sells some new things as well as standard opshop things. Earth Greetings is Interesting in it’s philosophy, I not 100% sold on all their designs, but some of them a [...]
Posted in Op Shop on Apr 30th, 2008
I’ve had to upload via Flickr, but it was necessary to share such a good opshop find.
So I got this jacket for $15, it’s some designer brand (Custo Barcelona), fits quite well and is nicely cut/good length. It’s a bit more crazy than what I’d wear normally, but it was far too fun to let [...]
Posted in Create, Design, Experiments, Op Shop on Apr 29th, 2008
I was so close the other week to buying an old op-shop chair and doing something with it.
I confess when I was younger and maybe even now, I had a small fascination with things being re-done or made-over. Tonight I found this chair that has been made over. I am a) jealous b) inspired. I [...]
The opshop strikes happy again!
Today I managed to arrive home early and wander on in and managed to get myself two books (and a screen writing book for Jess)
CardArt. Which is nice for ideas if nothing else.
and a 1972 copy of Speedball Textbook 20th Edition… which is very interesting typographically.
