How many of you buy products that have great packaging, despite whether or not you know anything about it? I'm putting my hand up in agreeance to that. UNELEFANTE is a gift shop with a team that includes a tea sommelier, a botanist and a poet. With this eclectic and certainly unique team, they strive to "transform the ordinary into extraordinary experiences" with a variety of whimsical items . . .
Fruit Rainbows
Okay, who of you knew that bananas could ever look like this? I am a fan of the banana (no sexual innuendo intended) and have one for breakfast each day - and even I had not seen it in its full potential. Romanian artist Dan Cretu takes the ripe fruit and carves patterns through its skin, the paints them to give each one its one unique character and personality. . . .
Collab#1 by Now&Them
Where have the last two months disappeared to? Collab#1 by Now&Them. "What?" you say. Our communications agency Paper Stone Scissors started a platform called Now&Them, celebrating creativity in society. We launched with an event called Collab#1 - an exhibition that encourages collaboration across multiple industries. Furniture Designer x Chocolate Factory, Graffiti Artist x Skull . . .
Sharing Bliss: Colour Your Walls
If you like monochromatic interiors and furnishings as much as I do, I believe that you’ll appreciate this recommendation. Melanie Mikecz, otherwise known as Two Ems, creates prints which would add a colourful pop to any wall, any room. HER STORY: Melanie Mikecz likes to consider herself a designer slash starving artist. So that means she only starves half the time (Just . . .
Painting Blotch
I'm one of those people that think that the elderly are extremely cute. Especially elderly couples lovingly taking strolls in parks. Definitely an 'aww' moment, considering how long they've actually been together. However, despite being cute as a button, perhaps they should not take up painting as a hobby. Some of them at least. One in particular... A piece of art by a 19th century painter Elías . . .