Made in our workshop and available in the shop from today 40 x 60cm high. Available in wood, white and red. Makes a great table centre piece and is best viewed with a mince pie (uk) or prawn (aus) in hand!
12.12.09
Christmas Tree
Made in our workshop and available in the shop from today 40 x 60cm high. Available in wood, white and red. Makes a great table centre piece and is best viewed with a mince pie (uk) or prawn (aus) in hand!11.12.09
Tales from Christmas Past
This is a photo of our Christmas card designed for the Museum of Modern Art in New York last year. Inspired by modern architecture and structure.
Looking after the locals!
No more markets for us before Christmas. Maybe that means we'll have more time to finish the online shop.... yes this is a sore point for us and I'm sorry we haven't got this finished. As we make everything ourselves (yes including an online shop) we decided we needed to focus on making sure we had stock for Angove St shop and the markets in time for Christmas. So for now, the online shop will happen in the new year... unless Father Christmas wants to help us finish the online shop in the next week (but he's probably got enough organising to do!)
Throw an energetic 20 month old Sophie into the mix and we soon run out of free time! Seen here wearing her organic elephant T!
9.12.09
Subi Street Festival - Thursday 10th December 5 - 9pm
Don't forget - Subi street festival tomorrow! Our last market of the season. We finished making our Future Shelter christmas trees today so come along to get a first glimpse. Available in wood, red or white acrylic.... nice! No photos yet - you have to come and see for yourself!
Photo: Giant sized Dino Roar! wall decal, Park Canvas, Retro Flower & the Pirate Ship Canvas
8.12.09
Extreme DJ
Left :"Today Tonight Tomorrow" 2007, Limited Edition (2 left)
Middle :Extreme DJ (Canvas)
Right : The Microscope (Canvas)
Extreme DJ print is now available on Canvas in store. Also available as a Limited Edition Print and sooooon to be a brand new T. We should be printing it towards the end of this week.
Running Man - Wall Decal
Make your own adventure with Running Man! With optional accessories you can choose his current adventure... is he on an important mission leaving love behind? or running away from his 007 lifestyle to give his love some flowers? This wall decal is designed to be moved around to create new adventures.
Are sales a good thing?
Sales... I don't like them! Mainly because "things" we buy are already too cheap.
I hate toy sales especially. I think of the person who sat at the desk making the components, how long did it take them, what did they have for lunch, where do they live? The chemical factory that made the plastic, the designer that made all the moulds. the factory that made the cardboard and the printers who printed the packaging. The eletricity needed to power those factorys... how was that generated?
I think about the ship that most probably sailed from China; that dodged the pirates, survived the giant waves that appear on those vast oceans which I've never experienced myself, the conditions the people endured on the boat. Who was the captain?
Who unloaded the container and drove the truck to the depot and onto the store? Did the driver stop for lunch and what did he have? Who printed and made the price tag on each and every product, all with their relevant barcodes and put them on the store shelves during the night when most of us (those without sleepless children) were sleeping? Then there is the assitant who sits at the counter all day putting "things" throught the till. And what about the bag it came in, who printed and made that? And how long do you use it for?
The cost of things are too cheap when you consider all the work it took to get them here. Isn't it amazing these things are here for us to buy? Shouldn't we be valuing them more? For them to be half price on the shelves in a sale designed to make us all buy more seems disrespectful to all those people who put in the hard work... especially those who sit in sweatshops in conditions we'd much rather not think about?
Of course in the case of children's toys, the child who receives the gift and is the whole reason the toy began its life, much prefers the box it came in.
I'm not asking people to stop buying (we are a running a shop afterall!) Just consider its life, who made it, and its real cost.
I hate toy sales especially. I think of the person who sat at the desk making the components, how long did it take them, what did they have for lunch, where do they live? The chemical factory that made the plastic, the designer that made all the moulds. the factory that made the cardboard and the printers who printed the packaging. The eletricity needed to power those factorys... how was that generated?
I think about the ship that most probably sailed from China; that dodged the pirates, survived the giant waves that appear on those vast oceans which I've never experienced myself, the conditions the people endured on the boat. Who was the captain?
Who unloaded the container and drove the truck to the depot and onto the store? Did the driver stop for lunch and what did he have? Who printed and made the price tag on each and every product, all with their relevant barcodes and put them on the store shelves during the night when most of us (those without sleepless children) were sleeping? Then there is the assitant who sits at the counter all day putting "things" throught the till. And what about the bag it came in, who printed and made that? And how long do you use it for?
The cost of things are too cheap when you consider all the work it took to get them here. Isn't it amazing these things are here for us to buy? Shouldn't we be valuing them more? For them to be half price on the shelves in a sale designed to make us all buy more seems disrespectful to all those people who put in the hard work... especially those who sit in sweatshops in conditions we'd much rather not think about?
Of course in the case of children's toys, the child who receives the gift and is the whole reason the toy began its life, much prefers the box it came in.
I'm not asking people to stop buying (we are a running a shop afterall!) Just consider its life, who made it, and its real cost.
4.12.09
Subiaco Upmarket - Thursday 10th December 5-9pm
Don't forget the night market next week. It will be nice to create some Christmassy market feeling to welcome us into the festive season. We have some brand new products to release in time for Christmas so come along and have a first glimse... and no its not the butterfly mentioned below!
Perth Upmarket
@ Subiaco Street Festival
Thursday 10th December
5pm - 9pm
Rokeby Rd
(between Hay St & Roberts Rd)
Perth Upmarket
@ Subiaco Street Festival
Thursday 10th December
5pm - 9pm
Rokeby Rd
(between Hay St & Roberts Rd)
2.12.09
East Fremantle Street Festival - Sunday 6th December
We're venturing out of North Perth again... this time to East Fremantle for the street Festival in George St. We'll be showing some of our new exciting ranges for the first time.
East Fremantle Festival
Sunday 6th December
1 - 7pm
George St, East Fremantle
Above : New!! Butterfly mirror shown here with our wall decals (Bird Tree and The Queue)
East Fremantle Festival
Sunday 6th December
1 - 7pm
George St, East Fremantle
Above : New!! Butterfly mirror shown here with our wall decals (Bird Tree and The Queue)
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