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WE'RE SUPPORTING

I am admittably not the biggest bicycle fan in the universe, but I really love typography in all shapes and forms. These “name-frame bikes” are a creation of Juri Zaech, a Swiss Art Director currently living and working in Paris. I wonder, since he’s already designed a ‘Nina’ model, how much it would take to create a ‘Nini’ model for me. Hmmm. Read more

WE'RE THINKING

It’s a really good thing I don’t have any money, otherwise I’d spend it all on ridiculous things like historically accurate Viking swords by MAD Dwarf Workshop.

I ran a series of 80s nights in New York last year — showing cult 80s movies and playing classic cuts from that era of kitsch and spice — purely so I could spin After The Fire’s Der Kommissar over and over. Yessir, this was the future of music in 1983. Pity no one was listening.

WE'RE TRAVELLING TO

MP5 + TO/LET are a collective of three girls from Rome and from Bologna who have been working on installations and graffiti since 2006. This graffiti was created in Medika, a new squat in Zagreb, Croatia. They were invited there for the Vox Feminae Festival, and this was painted in four days in the main entrance. Read more

WE'RE READING

This one-stop shop for all things eco-friendly is proof that protecting the environment is becoming a popular pastime. Almost every material category that comprises our society, from design to celebrity to transport, is looked at through a green lens. They’re ranked number twenty-two on Technorati’s list of 75,000,000 blogs, and even Daryl Hannah is singing their praises. Why? Its writers, they claim, ‘have the ability to take topics that most of us snoozed our way through in school, and make them the addictive juicy, green bits that they are’.

WE'RE LISTENING TO

Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more

WE'RE WEARING

North Carolina-based company CityFabric offers t-shirts with figure-ground diagrams of various cities printed on them. I’m waiting for them to make a Baltimore one.