Posts Tagged ‘shopping’

Sometimes it does a soul good to get away from the built-up spaces of a city — even a city with a wide and sweeping, ever-changing tidal river like the Thames — and head out to the coast and walk on a beach for a few hours. Such was the reasoning behind last week's visit [...]

Teach the Controversy – Intelligently designed t-shirts urging you to … – I don't wear slogan t-shirts but I think a few of my chums will appreciate these [via cleanskies]

1. Gareth thinks I update this thing too often. But I only update it once or twice a week, not every day, so I guess he'll have to make more of an effort to read it, or he'll just have to keep on marking it all as read on his Google Reader. Sorry, Gareth. (It's [...]

Was back at the St Aloysius Social Club again on Saturday, this time for the Bust Christmas Craftacular. More crowded than the previous two events I'd been to there recently, and entry wasn't even free this time! Although they were handing out a guide to the tables. It was a pretty shoddy guide, though, two [...]

I'm not planning on sending any Christmas cards this year (although I did design some), but I really like these Modernist London winter cards by designer Stefi Orazi. There's even one of the Isokon Flats 'round the corner from my house. [via]

When I came home from Craftwerk last Sunday, I had quite a haul of business cards for cool independent creative people who sell their wares online. Just in time for Christmas, I can pass their names and websites along to you! (Pictures below link to the individual shops if you click on them.) I kind [...]

After Margate, we trundled off to neighbouring Broadstairs on the local Loop bus, which took us through some other neighbourhoods full of shops with interesting signs, and past a fantastic bit of topiary — a giant figure in a top hat with its arms raised to the sky. Unfortunately there was no time to get [...]