Pulp Creative Paper
Smiggle? Fwiggle. Real paper junkies appreciate the finer things in life, like Paper Owl Pirate party invites, French colouring books and Hootie sketchbooks thick enough to contain years of crap poetry.
Say Happy Owlidays on a wood card or lift your Kris Kringle rating with rubber bands. Like the wardrobe to Narnia, within Pulp's four walls exists a secret world of papery delights you'll never want to leave.
Sydney's Swap and Sell Market
Walking into Carpark V is more like entering a battleground than strolling down memory lane with the Enid Blytons in the corner. However, look past the fourth-hand whitegoods, stinky teddies and random lampshades, to find the literary magic behind a bunch of folk hobnobbing over a bowl of noodles.
Sydney's Swap and Sell Market is a multifaceted experience.
The Many Op Shops Of Australia's Small Towns
One of the few upsides of being crammed into a small car with three other people and a bunch of gear for 12 hours as you haul arse to Brisbane, is the multitude of good op shopping to be done in Australia's small towns. The Arrows love it.
Adam will buy some cross-stitch, Owen some 60s bed sheets and Ange will most likely leave clutching a scarf with a tiger or some junk on it.
Comic Kingdom
Hole-in-the-wall, shit fight, rat's nest - you say that like it's a BAD thing.
True urban spelunkers know, buried amidst the rubble of these kinds of shops, one can find true gold. And on Liverpool Street in the Spanish Quarter sits a dusty treasure trove named Comic Kingdom.
The non-comic inclined needn't worry - there's plenty of other rad stuff here.
Ambiguous Horse online shop
The Ambiguous Horse of Pip Carroll's many-tentacled design agency is thankfully more ambiguous than Khartoum, the prize stallion that meets an unhappy end in THE GODFATHER, but less ambiguous than the slack-jawed, talky-talky Mr Ed and those prancy, saccharine Little Ponies. Ambiguous Horse, in fact, is named after the optical illusion of its equine-silhouette logo, but all you need to know is that it's an agency that helps facilitate the awesomeness of many designers by selling their wares online and helping out with the tricky stuff artisans are oft too busy to do.
Kevin Murphy
I was in Melbourne recently with work and stayed in a great hotel. Admittedly the interiors bordered on the distasteful end of that modern minimalist design rubbish, but my girlfriend at the time and I enjoyed it all the same. They had an amazing lap pool with a glass bottom that jutted out over the edge of the rooftop, the sinks and bath were all stainless steel.
Deus Ex Machina, Oxford Street
The original Deus in Camperdown has long been the ultimate male shopping-destination-come-café. Nothing evokes contemporary masculinity more than sipping on a latte surrounded by motorcycles, bicycles and leather. How appropriate then, that the team at Deus HQ have set up shop in the middle of Oxford Street.
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