Fonts play an important role in shaping the identity of a city. New York Subway has its Helvetica and you can see Univers Bold Condensed all around London. Edward Johnston’s classic type, designed for the city’s underground system, is also recognisable by millions around the world. We recently started Edinburgh Fonts, an Instagram project which explores Edinburgh’s fonts used around … Read More
Act
Act is an espadrilles and accessories brand based between Mallorca and Berlin founded by Isabel Rotger and Alex Drobovolny in 2013. After working in communication for several fashion companies, Isabel moved to Berlin and met Alex, CEO of Label Agent. They came up with the idea of Act on a Friday afternoon and the week after, they were already looking … Read More
Monochrome Lab
Monochrome Lab is a new graphic design studio founded by Glasgow-based Dutch designer Bart Manders. After studying Graphic Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and an exchange year at Glasgow School of Art, Bart started working on numerous projects for galleries and festivals such as The Telfer Gallery, GoMA and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, and … Read More
Bleu de Chauffe x Calepino
We recently talked talked about leather accessories label Bleu de Chauffe and their collaboration with brush manufacturer Andrée Jardin. The French brand has now teamed up with one of our favourite notebook manufacturers, Calepino, to create Portfolio, a set of 3 memo notebooks protected by a tanned vegetable leather cover. Both companies are passionate about good design and craftsmanship, so … Read More
ODOU Magazine
ODOU is a bi-annual magazine exploring smell and perfume through themes of science, art, design, memory and photography. Founded by web and digital designer Liam Moore in 2013, three issues of ODOU have been published so far and a fourth is on its way, backed by a currently running Kickstarter campaign to make the magazine reach even more people. We … Read More