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mind the lads #6

for those of you who were around (and those who weren’t) when we first organised ‘mind the gap’ back in october 1996, you may remember that the first (and by far the best, so far) edition featured the rat-pack of british designers from that period: ‘tomato’, ‘fuel’, my old hero ‘peter saville’, ‘the designers republic’, ‘north’ and ‘me company’, we sold all 800 tickets for the afternoon (@ legendary venue ‘paradiso’) in record time & the event still gets mentioned regularly by those who managed to get a seat in the packed hall…

…to continue reading the full article, see here in ‘me stuff’

m / 12-01-2011 09:23 - tags: , ,  

the clock clock

simply genius… (via christian borstlap)

m / 12-01-2011 09:11 - tags: ,  

plastic fantastic

some pretty unusual plastic footwear from italian architect and designer ‘gaetano pesce’ for australian shoe company melissa, they can be trimmed down to various shapes at a later stage by the owner

(via ‘IdN’)

m / 12-01-2011 08:22 - tags: , ,  

ali barber and the fourty haircuts

london-based photographer richard nicholson spends his time (in his own words) …working for magazines, shooting personal projects, and doing nothing…

for example this project documenting the clients of ‘ali’s barber shop’ in london… more info can be read in the following article east-end cuts

m / 11-01-2011 13:24 - tags: , ,  

once in a lifetime

ok, so i cheated by modifying the date stamp but still… i just wanted to post it anyway…

m / 11-01-2011 11:11