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Keep Company
In the golden age of infomercials, Demtel would advertise a set of steak knives by cutting through a shoe. Tim Shaw also went nuts on tomatoes and a frozen box of broccoli. It really was an amazing offer. Now however, as Australian infomercials are dying a slow death due to the internet, it stands that vegetarian shoes should rise to avenge (and overthrow) their leather cousins.
Hakusan
About 30 years ago, the tag 'Made in Japan' carried a certain stigma. It stood for inexpensive manufacturing, mass product and cost-effective labour. Skip forward and the country's global reputation is on the flip side. Designers such as Jun Takahashi and Rei Kawakubo are walking all over western catwalks and brands like Toto are the darlings of designed toilets.
Powershovel Cameras
Welcome Powershovel, the Japanese camera brand that has created, fact, the first 110mm fish-eye lens camera. ‘Demekin', is small enough to fit right in your pocket - it could be a spy camera if not for the massive lens. The ethos of Powershovel is to use the camera not just as a machine, but a sketchbook of everyday life.
WON
There are so many things you can do with A3 newsprint. For examples see: Beat, that News Limited rag, ANP QUARTERLY and ACNE PAPER. Let’s say, though, when the four horsemen of the apocalypse finally arrive and divide us into two groups according to what we printed on affordable stock, the makers of WON don’t intend to be rubbing shoulders with the Herald Sun classifieds team.
Kamon
Kurayumi stood silently on the battlefield. Like a thousand bloody blossoms, the faces of fallen samurai lay twisted and mangled on the ground in front of her. Opposite Hiromasa, shogun of the attacking army, unsheathed his katana and set his one good eye on her with a cruel glower.
Fighting off overwhelming fatigue and fear, Kurayumi looked beyond the arrogant warlord to the ochre flag depicting her family's Kamon shivering slightly in the breeze.
Limedrop
Once upon a time in the Northern Territory, a curly-haired boy and a leggy lady linked arms and creative endeavour. Together they trekked south easterly - dropping by Brisbane for an education, stopping to take in the sites of Sydney, and finally landing in Melbourne town. Today they feed the creative industry of all three cities with the fashionable flair that is Limedrop.
Graniph Pop-Up Shop
If you are sick of your pecks ‘voting for Pedro' then Via Alley has a solution.
Graniph is based in Japan, but collaborates with artists all over the world to create original, limited edition tees. Yke Schotten, Fumi Nakamura and Paul Willoughby are just a few designers to work with the label, which has stayed solely in Japan until now.
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