Fixperts

Seems it's all happening in the world of fixing.. Found out about the seemingly wonderful Fixperts via reading about Daniel Charny, who was speaking at the 100% Design conference in September.

Makers by Chris Anderson

Interesting.. more about this new book here.

Cabinet of Curiosities

The couple’s decisions about what to collect are more deliberate than they might seem. “It’s an aesthetic decision,” Ms. Stevenson said. “If it appeals to my eye or my mind, it’s a keeper.” They revel in giving a home to unloved objects, possessions that were once dear to someone and then discarded. “To some people this would be ugly,” Ms. Meyer said. “But to other people, this is kind of earthy and lush.”

One of our fine regular SIB blog readers, J.E.Stanbury, sent us a link to this article in The New York Times. Once again we touch upon the element of this project that is somehow contemporary, almost trendy…

This all looks very interesting...

Amend, mend, end

I picked up this card in Falmouth over the weekend from a rack outside a gift shop specialising in 'shabby chic' tat. It would be hard not to notice that there's been a revival of austerity-Britain iconography of late. The brisk on-line trade in retro 'make do and mend' postcards might have something to do with the V&A's exhibition a few years back, or to a surface sense of cultural symmetry between that era and our own (the usual explanation). But of course it's all for sale--you can buy your thrifty mantra, if you don't have time to live it. If you do have a spare Thursday morning and happen to live in London you can go along to a 'Mending Morning' at the Idler Academy and learn how to darn a sock (for a £5 donation). The Fixer's Collective in Brooklyn has moved on to Aiwa tape decks. What's going on, and how is our research implicated in this?

Fixers' Collective. And in the same building as the great magazine Cabinet. Brooklyn, NY eh? Must be such a fine place to live.