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— Melbourne, Wednesday June 19, 2013 —
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East Elevation Supper Club vegan dinner
Fantasy light yoga deep soulful sweats disco
Big Yawn 7" launch with Bonnie Mercer, Jealous Husband and Call Me Professor
EATDRINK
Soup from Aunt Maggie's Fitzroy
Goldilocks
Krimper
GOODS
CAMI XXX
Hannah Lawrence ceramics
To The Teeth Collective rope jewellery
HEAR
A mixtape by Rizzla
A Dancing Shoes mixtape by Ariane
TV Colours, 'Purple Skies, Toxic River'
LOOK
Decline
A Centre For Everything presents The House
The Kenneth Biennale
MAKE
Dyeing things with flowers
Glove puppets
Multipurpose balls
MEET
Once and For All: How to use a semicolon, with David Astle
Once and For All: How to do a tumble turn, with Gary Simpson
Once and For All: How to chop vegetables and fruit, with Meg Tanaka
READ
'Filmme Fatales' issue #2
David Vogel, ‘Viennese Romance’
Sincere Forms of Flattery
SHOP
Sunday Morning Designs x Klei pop up
Centre for Style
MINI Paceman concept store
STRAY
Free Fridays, edition #4
Ned Kelly's Last Stand at the Glenrowan Tourist Centre
Free Fridays, edition #3
STREET
CONFETTISYSTEM Workshop
West Space 20th Anniversary Annual Fundraiser
The Kenneth Biennale at Rear View
WATCH
Mud
Spanish Film Festival, 'Hold Up!
Speakeasy Cinema at Shebeen
All articles
Newsflash
Win
Meredith Forrester · June 12, 2013
Sunday mornings. Perfect for designing things. Or sleeping in, snuggled under a doona that someone else designed for you! Sunday Morning Designs have this we...
Kiloran Hiscock · June 6, 2013
I'm unsure if I've ever experienced the curious combination of feeling genuinely inspired and slightly queasy simultaneously before, but this video b...
Us · May 30, 2013
This week Ben Edwards and Juliet Moore of Edwards Moore finished work on the cocoon-like interior of a new shop on Chapel Street. Designed as a combined stud...
Hudson
Sarah Booth · May 22, 2013
Contrary to almost every other entity in the world right now, Nikki Hall wants her physical presence to take precedence over her online one. So much so that ...
Pony Bikes new shop
Kane Daniel · May 16, 2013
Bikes, as we have already covered here, are the best things. They become as children. And, just like children, vat-brewed versions made by corporations are n...
LUPA Fitzroy
Marissa Shirbin · May 16, 2013
When you are committed to a cause, it's comforting to find a place where you can be confident you're with like-minded people and relax. Picture the f...
Pop Craft x Jack of Diamonds
Meredith Forrester · April 15, 2013
Hello! The Pop Craft x Jack of Diamonds pop-up knitting shop opened at 10am today! In a temporary space on the ground floor of RMIT's Building 80 (the ne...
Captain Phillips
Sarah Booth · April 9, 2013
When a Czechoslovakian bachelor named Philip Phillips made his way to the City of Lurve after World War II, little did he know that 65 years on his Liberty p...
The Darebin Resource Recovery Centre
Sam West · April 4, 2013
My friend and I needed some old carpet to soundproof his shed so we decided to see if Darebin Tip had any. We were greeted at the gates by a friendly man in ...
CCP x Third Drawer Down shop
Natasha Theoharous · March 21, 2013
Abi Crompton of Third Drawer Down and Naomi Cass of CCP have known each other for a long time - fifteen years they say. When it came time to give the CCP Sho...
The Social Studio's new shop
Kate Mosh · March 6, 2013
After running a successful Indiegogo campaign last October, raising more than $17,000 (with 15 minutes to spare), Grace McQuilten and the Social Studio team...
Chorus
Us · February 27, 2013
The time has come - you can now browse and buy a full collection of Chorus with your very own fingers and eyes and wallet. Initially based in a Kensington st...
Daxville pop up shop
Claire Connors · February 23, 2013
Op shop finds are a delight, but you can only go through so many fusty be-baubled cardies and boxes of 'knick knack' junk before you begin to feel wo...
Pan After
Sarah Booth · February 21, 2013
Pass Pinocchio's Place, the Melbourne Party Emporium and throw a left at Muleta's all-day breakfast. Next, hustle round a couple of oversized service...
Basketball Jersey World
Tim Scott · February 20, 2013
Peter Zolkos is no fairweather fan. He says he's been supporting the Miami Heat since long before the current LeBron and Dwyane era of success. There'...
Yarn + Cø
Claire Connors · February 11, 2013
Walking into Yarn + Cø is like walking into the fantasy version of exactly the kind of shop you need the very moment you become enthusiastic about knitting. ...
Pop & Scott x Mr Lincoln, Pop Up Posy Shop
Sarah Booth · February 7, 2013
Not content with simply running their own successful businesses, Poppy Lane of Pop & Scott and Sarah Nolan of Mr Lincoln florist have teamed up to create...
Drunken Barber
Kane Daniel · January 31, 2013
Prophecy hairdressers have been open damn near a decade. Which is not important. Stop saying it's important. Our concern is the barbershop that has opene...
Above Studio Store
Sarah Booth · January 31, 2013
It would appear that the brilliant minds of Above, Nyssa Marrow and Kerry Findlow, have gone rogue. Declaring arrivederci to the rigidly cyclical seasons of ...
Motto Melbourne, new shop
Kate Mosh · January 20, 2013
Motto Melbourne re-opened on the weekend in its new home on Johnston Street. Buyer and head honcho Joe Shakespeare is making the most of the larger space wit...
Lucky Buster
Sarah Booth · January 17, 2013
A hairdresser! In Brunswick East! Ten years ago the idea would have been rubbished in the appropriate bin for composting and fed back to the chooks. These da...
Jetnikoff Bicycle Co.
Kane Daniel · January 16, 2013
Bicycles are the best thing ever. If you don't agree, I invite you to spend the time you would have otherwise used reading this article going and fucking...
Spares
Kate Mosh · December 16, 2012
Hugo Hubbard's dudewear shop Spares started life in the Taxi League switchboard at the front of Parts & Crafts. Soon after that it launched a paralle...
Comme des Garçons POCKET
Us · December 15, 2012
Comme des Garçons opened their first Australian store and mini-indoor basketball court this week on Rankins Lane. JK! No sports in the shop. They do have a b...
Kenny and the Sunshine Girls
Marissa Shirbin · December 6, 2012
A highly charismatic blue budgie named Kenny and his two 'sunshine girls' Poppy Lin and Dana Leviston have just opened a hair and makeup salon named ...
Double Monk
Kane Daniel · December 4, 2012
I experienced a touch of border-crossing dissonance upon entering Double Monk. On one hand, the interior - designed by Antony Martin of MRTN Architects - res...
Clubhouse Records
Sarah Booth · December 1, 2012
If you’ve had trouble remembering what the antonym for ‘gentrification’ is, venture to the second floor of your local northern suburbs pub. Here, worn down s...
The Design Files Open House 2012 (behind the scenes)
Sarah Booth and Penny Modra · November 28, 2012
This morning Lucy Feagins of The Design Files finished scrubbing the bathtub at someone else's place, threw open the doors and welcomed everyone into a l...