marimekko: design icon
Consider our knickers officially in a knot over the
awesomeness of Bendigo Art Gallery’s latest exhibition.
Running until June 11, Marimekko: Design Icon 1951 to 2018
explores the history of the Finnish textile and fashion brand- from bold 1960s prints donned by Jacqueline Kennedy to
the iconic Unikko poppy design. The full run-down can be
found at bendigoartgallery.com.au, but a little birdy told us
to expect original fabrics, homewares, sketches, and more
than 60 Marimekko outfits. Dreamy.
a rad-ish pot
Well, what do we have
here? Just a little
clay pot painted with
radishes, inspired by
old-timey children’s
book illustrations. It
comes with a hand-
stitched leather handle
for emergency fruit-
and veg-collecting
situations, and we
reckon it’s not just
rad-ish, but certifiably
rad. Trot on over to
jeffjosephinedesigns.
bigcartel.com if you
feel the same way.pretty useful co.
Ah, the internet. Where would our
urge to accumulate weird-but-
oddly-useful doodads be without
you? We stumbled across this felt
earring keeper for around $
online, and have fallen deeply in
like with its ingenuity. According
to its makers, Allie Mounce and
Clare Freeman – aka Pretty
Useful Co. – it offers “20 extra
ears for all your earring-keeping
needs”, and we simply can’t argue
with that. Instead, we offer three
congratulatory cheers. Hip-hip,
hooray! Hip-hip, hooray! Hip-hip,
hooray! pretty-useful.cototally
cactus
S is for succulent.
A is for arid. H is for
‘holy hell, these pins
are cool’. The prickly
letters are designed
by typographer
Kim Vu out of San
Francisco, but if you
fancy a piece of the
enamel action Down
Under, they’re yours
for around $15 each
from jvstyourtype.
etsy.com
sneaking about
Whether shoes over a powerline denote gang
activity; local drug dealers; or a rather clumsy
shoe-carrying clod who doesn’t know their
own strength, we’re quite glad they’re so
ubiquitous. Otherwise, we might never have
come across these shoe pots from Texas
fellow Wyatt Little. Inspired by the familiar
dangling sneakers and the weeds and mould
that often grow within them, he set about
designing a ceramic equivalent. They come in
four fun patterns, and at about 64 bucks a pop,
can be found at wyattlittle.com
frank bits