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Archive for July, 2011

New! Lucky Peach, The Plant Journal, It’s Nice That, etc.

Friday, July 29th, 2011

The Plant Journal, It's Nice That and Lucky Peach magazines

Two long anticipated titles turned up yesterday in the form of The Plant Journal and Lucky Peach, as well as new issues of Grafik and It’s Nice That (the latter featuring a wonderful interview with pioneering ad man George Lois.)

The Plant Journal is a new magazine from the makers of Apartamento (okay, they e-mailed us to clear this up: they are different people. But to be fair: both mags share a similar look, the same design studio and some of the same contributors) about, you guessed it, plants. Lucky Peach is a new collaboration between McSweeney’s and chef David Chang (the man behind the Momofuku empire and who notably managed to use variations on the word “fuck” 24 times when he was profiled by The New Yorker) featuring writing from Anthony Bourdain among others.

In case you missed out the first time around, we also managed to get some more copies of Lula and we’re still unpacking everything, so there’s bound to be other great titles hitting the shelves later today. Stay tuned!

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More mugs than you’ve ever seen

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Mug Nation

If you’ve been to our Elizabeth Street store this week it wouldn’t have escaped your attention that we’re now stocking about fifty three thousand different ceramic Pantone mugs and Scrabble letter mugs and crumple cups and Keep Cups and other assorted re-useable hot beverage vessels.

So, what’s up with all the mugs?

The long and short of it is that simultaneously received orders from a few different suppliers… meaning that, for the moment, we’re rammed to the gills.

We’re working at re-jigging our shelving to consolidate the mug selection into one or two shelving units but for the moment, Mug Nation is the name and mugs are the game. (Interesting fact: 35% of all transactions at our Greville Street store yesterday were mugs. No kidding.)

And for you, dear reader? We’ve got one Pantone mug and one Scrabble mug to give away.

To enter, just tell us in the comments which letter or colour you’d like and why.*

* Entrants need to be able to pick up their mugs from Elizabeth Street, ’cause we’re pretty sure that there’s no way we could post these out to you without ‘em shattering into a trillion tiny pieces.

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Take: A new photography mag

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Take magazine cover

“Full disclosure. I don’t really know a lot about photography. I have no idea what the hell an ISO is, wouldn’t use film if you paid me and think the manual settings on my camera were created by the devil to make life difficult.”

So begins a note from the editor prefacing Take a brand new photography magazine published out of Sydney from the guys behind the illustration mag EMPTY and the Semi-Permanent design conferences. He continues,

“What I am though is a total groupie of photographers and their work. Like many people I have spent years flicking through the pages of countless photography books. Staring slack-jawed with amazement at images of oustanding beauty, at moments of time captured by individuals whose courage and talent I remain in awe of.”

Off to a pretty good start then, eh?

Similar in format to Monster Children, Take features 111 pages of stunning photography from the Magnum reportage style of Adam Ferguson to Boogie’s gritty dispatches from urban slums across the globe, commercial fisherman/photographer Corey Arnold’s photos from the high seas and just about everything in between.

Available in our Australian stores now, in NZ next week.

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