Note to Self

Hand made is just so hard. Not because there isn’t ample stuff out there to get busy with, but because the likelihood of both your free time and...

Maiocchi may just be the most charming store in Brisbane. The unique creations of talented local designer Deanne Mayocchi are one thing - but it is...

There's no doubt pizza is on it’s way into the endangered species list of socially acceptable foods. Fair enough when all it conjures up is images...

Is it a cliché that springtime should have me obsessing over the finches and the bees, is it completely predictable that I should be feeling all...

Betsy Blonde invented cute.

Well, if not invented, then is certainly keeping it well and truly alive. This Melbourne-based jeweller has spent over three...

Bean bag, bean bag. Whatcha doin’ sittin’ on that bean bag?
Reading Shrigley’s Worried Noodles!

Tree stump, tree stump. Whatcha...

What happens when you buy something at Lucid Laundry, Ultra Suite, Blonde Venus, Honor LuLu, Nelson Molloy and The Outpost on the same day? You end up...

Was it '99 when Rocking Horse Records moved to Albert Street? Does anyone remember? Not that it really matters, the place still exudes that so-familiar-it's-almost-family...

Brisbane-indie-artist-making-it-out-there Simon Degroot celebrates a string of solo and group shows in Sydney and Melbourne and three years running as...

It's birthday season coming up, so you better get ready. Okay, we might not have any statistical proof of this, but there does seem to be an awful lot...

Sometimes we wonder where all the menswear stores went. There used to be heaps of them but in recent years many of them have either gone co ed or worse:...

Everyone is always in search of fresh and it doesn't get much fresher than the graduating class of any year. Cushioned by the cocoon-like, insular nature...

Canvas Magazine is the love child of a fashion fanatic and her design savvy boyfriend. Straight out of Le’Brisbane, Canvas covets high-fashion...

London's Future Laboratory has been casting pearls, nuggets and carats before swine under the ultimate preposition The for four issues now; it's time...

Fortitude Valley’s TCB is brimming with trendy new boutiques ready to dress the masses. Recent TCB addition is Size. Since the centre opened it...

What was it that lured all of Brisbane's dressed-to-impress it-kids to a dark Valley alleyway on a very chilly April night? Curvy 5 of course...

One of my all time heroes is the illustrator Christopher Niemann. This talented American does all kinds of graphic-based work for loads of magazines and...

There’s pretty much nothing better than going to a garage sale and sifting through other people’s random shit. It’s a kind of lower-scale...

Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999...

Streetwear doesn't get sweeter this season than Okay! The brainchild of local fashion whiz-kids Kris and Gavin, have launched their second Autumn/Winter...