Stuff of the Week

The ‘Good Week for Stuff’ post seemed so popular I thought I’d do it again — I feel an irregular format of blog posts coming on… The first edition of Agency YCN’s new newsletter popped through the letterbox today [agencyycn.com]. It’s a fun and informative affair with high quality design work courtesy of Mr David Lane [davidlaneuk.net]. The pull out ‘artcards’ are a neat idea too. We like David’s suggested redesign for Grafik magazine too (see the PDF on his website) ¶ When Boicozine needs a sugar fix we (well, me) often find ourselves reaching for the Chelsea Yogurt Scotch [meiji.co.jp/chelsea]. The coffee and tea versions are a little rich but, bizarrely their butter scotch version is quite good. ¶ Avid readers will know about our (well, just me really… again) fascination with macarons, particularly proper french ones. Legendary purveyor of lush macarons, Ladurée [laduree.fr] produce limited edition boxes to put them in that look as confectous, and totally collectable, as the macarons themselves. ¶ If yer in London town, have a nose around the art shops cause there’s a special offer on packs of Sharpies [sharpie.com] on the moment. It’s the first set of textas… sorry, felt-tips… I’ve had in ages. If you’re in Cowling & Wilcox, check out their Alien Art Concept range of Spray Paints. Current fave is light yellow [mtncolors.com]. ¶ A new issue of colossal (512 pages, count ‘em) art mag Uovo [uovo.tv] is out, again art directed (as usual) with utmost finesse by Boletsferñando [boletsfernando.org] ¶ Finally managed to get me mitts on a copy of Case da Abitare [atcasa.corriere.it/casedaabitare], recently redesigned by Winkreative [see magculture]. The actual design of the magazine has definitely improved (even if it borrows a little too heavily from magazine design of the late 60s and early 70s, with it’s fashionably rigid grid system), the editorial just seems a little lack lustre now. Hopefully it’ll even out once the dust has settled.