Bookshelf: Garoa

Garoa is a bookstore founded in Zarautz, in the Basque Country, northern Spain. It doesn’t only focus on selling books but offers alternative activities like concerts and art exhibitions to bring more traffic through the door and get more people interested in ‘analog’ reading. Garoa is a really creative business and the team running the store is truly multidisciplinary – in the … Read More

New project: ChairYourLife

We’ve just launched our first project of 2014! Meet Holga and Andrea, the founders of based in Valencia, Spain, creative studio ChairYourLife. The project was shoot by our contributor Carmen Grey. In the interview we ask Holga and Andrea about their creative background and we find out more about the process involved in creating their new designs. See the full … Read More

How To Win At A Flea Market

Not everything you buy needs to be new; instead, it can be new to you. This works for clothing, jewellery, furniture and more. Who doesn’t love to wander longingly around an antique store and wonder if their haggling skills are up to scratch?  Then there are the more significant, bolder and bolshier flea markets. But don’t be mistaken, you can … Read More

Studio & Shop Visit: Common People

A couple of weeks ago, Barclaycard Freedom Rewards contacted us to invite us shopping at one of the local businesses in our city. We chose Common People, a Scottish menswear label which just opened its first flagship store in Edinburgh last August. Common People was founded 3 years ago by Kestin Hare, former Head of Design of English label Nigel … Read More

Interview: Urbanears

Urbanears is a collective out of Scandinavia founded by Norra Norr, a Stockholm-based industrial design consultancy, and Zound Industries. Created in 2009, Urbanears, has changed the way we look at personal electronics.   The Urbanears headphones are made of coloured plastic, steel with aluminium detailing and handmade drivers. They are treated with a rubber coating that gives the headphone a matte … Read More