It's colour time
As anyone who knows me can testify, I have a thing for the colour light blue. One Merge editor describerd it as a 'sickness' when he pointed out that I was wearing a light blue watch, writing with a light blue pen which was kept in a light blue pencil case, my sneakers had light blue highlights and I was riding a light blue dragster bike that day (...
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Make A: Home Wallpaper Design
How’s that tired old wall looking? Pretty tired? Well there’s plenty of alternatives to buffing her clean and covering her up with beige paint. One word. Wallpaper. I know it sounds like two words but it’s not. And yes, wallpaper isn’t just for peeling off in strips while you’re sitting on the toilet. No, wallpaper is ...
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A Word With Harris Robotis
Go to all the music festivals. Go to all of them and make a documentary and sell it for squillions to commercial TV– that’s our suggestion! However, if you’re not feeling as misanthropic as all that, perhaps the one to check out is the first-run Midsummer Circus festival, which local, too-cool-for-you club, Electric Circus is co-p...
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Zine Feature
This is our prediction: the world is so flooded with information, so contaminated by convenience and accessability, that in the next few years we're going to see a tightening up.Wewon't go as far as to say there'll be a wide-spread anti-digital movement but increasingly the breaking stuff, the underground stuff is going to be happening off line. ...
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Gary Seaman = Master of Wood
We've known for ages that Gary Seaman is awesome. His consistently amazing and intricate creations of wood have delighted us at group shows around town while his uncanny ability to connect with renowned artists fromacross the country and planet is becoming legendary. Well now his awesomeness is official. Featured in chronicle of awesomeness, Wo...
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For The Gentleman
Anyone who's come into Merge Towers recently may have had a chuckle or been quietly embarrassed by a stack of old People Magazines on our book shelf. When resident fashion sensei, Steph Mountzouris came by with a bunch of her dad's People Magazines from 1983 everyone in the office had a laugh at the 80's stylings and poor-taste humour. But on close...
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How To: Customise a Rubick's
Custom Puzzle Cube Design + Make: Marty van de Weyer Cost $4 / Time 1-1.5 hours Looking to confound friends and irritate people? With the standard puzzle cube losing its ability to captivate, its time to knock things up a notch by giving it an all-new exterior.With a few bits and pieces you can grant this puzzle a new alluring appearance or u...
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Adelaide's Very Own Pop Up Store
This window dressing on Ebenezer Place is very exciting indeed. Trundling down the 'neez last Friday night, it was a bit of a shock to see, the space formerly inhabited byArea 101 filled with TV screens all flashing Dukes of Hazzard-type-car-films and 90s NBA clips. What is it? We're not positive... but this couldwellbe Adelaide's very first Po...
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Mixed Media Mecca
Mike Orduña aka Fatoe's LA studio must be the Mecca for all mixed media artwork and design. Perfectly capturing the artists' fury, speed, recklessness, passion, grace and vision through his use of sprays, acrylic paints, pencils, pens, sharpies, vector graphics and in some cases minimal Photoshopping.Look and wonder at the works of Fatoevia ...
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Great idea. Steal it now!
The paper clip has long been an icon of pure design brilliance. Deceptively simple, it pefectly fulfils (what we assume was) the brief; hold lots of paper together - cheaply and really well. The LED lamp is a more recent player but it answers to the same purist design goals, do your job (provide light) - efficiently. Sungho Lee's "LED clip&quo...
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