TJ's Two:

1 Magda the knit lady
Why Magda, you little renegade you. In case you can’t tell from the image she uses knitting to warm the city, and so the pull quote taken from her interview in Dumbo Feather was darned into the page (BIG UP TEXTILES). The pink hand sewn ‘BAD ASS’ made me think about how fantastically well this nostalgic trend in design is doing. If I see one more illustration of a man with an owl head, or a babushka screen-printed onto a teatowel, or a black and white swirly sketch of a wolf chasing a bunny rabbit – what’s wrong with cockies and dingos? Oh I’m sorry, I forgot Ken Done ruined all that for us… but hang on, I saw a guy at Falls rocking a pair of Done Design shorts with only the vaguest trace of irony!
D’OH! And there it is again: nostalgia.

The in-your-face margin-less layout breaks the general space rules of typography to add to the bad-assness of the message.


















2 Fallen? Yup.
While my brain screamed 'do not dare purchase this contrived collection of tree wastage' my heart was struck beatless by these empty yet fully charged pages and it begged ‘please brain, grant me just one moment of gratuitous visual pleasure’ and I confess, I have returned to this place for more than just an odd moment, and each time still, it renders me just that. STILL.

TJ