Yes it cats and yes its on a blog but this tumblr had me at ‘Meowvin Gaye’. What was that? You’d love to see a cat on the sleeve of Blacks Sabbaths debut album? Well why not pop along to here and have your mind blown. Props to Crombie at Monster Children for the heads up on this awesomeness.
Anyone who macs, or designs out there will love this, yup, they’re solid gold btw. From here
Dropped into Supreme after a meeting the other day and the nice chap behind the counter slipped me a couple of the Kate Moss posters (they’re fetchin 50 bucks on Ebay at the mo). The dudes in there have always been friendly although I’m braced for max attitude, maybe they think I’m someones Dad waiting around.
Looks nice, didn’t know he did this all that time ago. More here
Found this great article on JJ here. I miss Keith and the gang, you don’t see much of them anymore.
You don’t have to be a designer to appreciate this but if you are anyway involved in the creative industry you’ll smile and probably cringe at this most awesome tumblr.
If you’ve not heard about this basically the borough of Brixton in London have established their own currency for locals to exchange between themselves at various retailers, anyway read more about it here. BUT most importantly the £10 notes have David Bowie on it, yeah thats right Ziggy era David Bowie! These guys have done an great job of designing the full suite of notes. Here
These blew my mind when I saw them, what a collection to have, times must be hard for this guy to be selling them. Via
Fact #3 – Factory Boxed Cassettes
Always keen to offer something new and different for the record-buying public, Factory launched a series of boxed cassettes for a limited section of its roster. These came in attractive rainbow colour-themed, ‘hessian’ feel, extra-large sized boxes containing miniature replicas of the original artwork and became instantaneously an essential items for collectors; the rarest boxes are Substance by New Order (which strangely seemed to be mainly available through Woolworths)
On my internet quest for Mini Simmons knowledge I chanced upon David Carsons blogs. As a design student pretty everything I produced was influenced by/ripped off from him much to the dismay of my lecturers. I met him at a signing one evening in Brick Lane, he’s a cool guy and he signed the book above. Back then I was a landlocked student so I didn’t ask him anything surf related, just advice on how to blag passing my degree. I also learnt from his blog that he designed the msw logo, a design I see pretty much everyday, I see it in new light now. Oh and he also fuckin rips on Simmons at 57 years old (its his birthday tomorrow according to wiki so many happy ones Dave!
A couple of doses of surfing reality from two of my favourite blogs: 1. The best piece of writing in the recent Kook2 Freedom by any other name by Making Friends. 2. An honest and atmospheric little film The Surf Magazines Don’t Talk About Lapsed Catholics by Endless Bummer
