Category: Crafts

Seeking Slow products for magazine review

Handcrafted items, slowly produced unique pieces, useful planet-friendly innovations and products designed with care and talent to feature in  full-colour four-page ‘Slow Spy’ section in Slow Magazine.

Deadline: 12 March 2010

Posted in Crafts, Fashion, Product design | Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | dvize melbourne | No Comments »

The Social Studio retail store, workshop and cafe

Design files has published an overview of this great Melbourne initiative

Posted in Crafts, Fashion, Melbourne+VIC | Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | dvize melbourne | No Comments »

The Very Curious Kitten – Sustainable, Handmade and Sweatshop Free Boutique

A New shop has opened called the Very Curious Kitten at 138 Lygon Street Brunswick East … A cute and quirky little shop stocking ethical Fashion and handmade, accessories and artwork. At the Very curious kitten they believe in ethical shopping choice so each item in the shop is either Handmade, made from recycled materials or sweatshop free… featuring many local designers and hand-picked pieces.

The best thing is everything is the store is labelled so you can chose how you wish to shop…this li’l curiosity shop is filled to the brim with one off made pretties so you know your getting something special!

See our feature on ButtonTree who is behind this new shop.

Posted in Adelaide+SA, Art, Corporate, Crafts, Jewellery | Monday, February 22nd, 2010 | Annemarie Blades | No Comments »

Melbournes massive Sustainable Living Festival

February 6, 2010 to February 21, 2010

Showcases a huge range of exhibitors, talks, workshops, art, films and performances celebrating and inspiring sustainable communities.

There are too many great events to list here so check out the program. We will be posting some highlights next week and heading down to create a feature on it.

Anyone wanting to help us write, shoot, interview or code let us know, it will be greatly appreciated.

Your Place or Mine? Exhibition at Reverse Garbage

February 13, 2010 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Highlighting the incredible talent of our local artists and the potential of reuse. An exhibition of homewares handmade from salvaged materials and a performance by local folk outfit ‘the Vulture St Family Skiffle Band’

Posted in Art, Calendar, Crafts, Exhibition, Launch, Sydney+NSW | Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | dvize melbourne | No Comments »

Heidi and Seek – things i wish i knew before i opened shop

Here are the things I wish I knew before I got myself into this whole Heidi & Seek shebang…

Posted in Crafts, Fashion | Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | dvize | No Comments »