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VOLUME
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Happy winter! Lost & Found issue 02 is upon us already. There's been no time to waste, because it's design season in Melbourne. As an email magazine that promises you the inside view of the city's creative people and places, we have had our work cut out for us this issue. Read on for up-to-the minute design finds and a rather productive giveaway.
Meanwhile, don't forget to have a virtual snoop around the Lost & Found Hotel Room. It's full of Melbourne-made products, publications, music and art – and Lost & Found subscribers have the chance to stay there for free! Not a joke. Check out some of the blog
entries by our guests so far, and click
here to apply. |
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GUEST EDITOR
Lucy Feagins
Our guest editor this issue is the legend-in-her-own-bakelite-lunchbox Lucy Feagins. Lucy's blog The
Design Files gets more hits than Lionel Rose in the third round, covering Australian and international designers, products and interiors. She's also a stylist, working on film sets and for magazines such as Inside
Out and Design
Quarterly. At the moment, Lucy is getting ready to start her first newspaper column and trying to psych herself up before covering the entire State
of Design festival on her blog. She took a few minutes out to tell us about her favourite Melbourne haunts. |
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ARTS
Tinning Street
If you've ever admired a wall
drawing at one of Melbourne's coolsier cafes, or been jealous of your barista's
tattoo, you've probably seen the work of illustrator Max Blackmore. Max is easier to track down these days because he recently opened his own gallery in Brunswick. Situated off Tinning Street, with the rather creative title of Tinning
Street, the gallery has been home to three exhibitions, some gigs and a pop-up restaurant night so far. Look out for Elecricity From Lemons by Nick Casey – on show this month.
Lot 5, 29 Tinning Street, Brunswick
(entry via laneway).
Tel: 0422 180 232. |
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Lucy Feagins:
Last year I discovered the Australian
Ballet for the first time and absolutely loved it...I know nothing at all about dance but it is just such a beautiful thing to go and see – and accessible for anyone and everyone. It is especially gorgeous to meet under the Arts Centre spire, all dressed up on a wintery night, with dinner booked at Coda or MoVida afterwards. The Ballet always starts and ends on time so you'll never miss your dinner booking. The Australian Ballet also has a seriously incredible behind-the-scenes blog called Behind
Ballet – one of the absolute best Melbourne arts and culture blogs, and truly worth bookmarking (promise!). |
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EVENTS
State of Design
State of Design is very appropriately named insofar as it puts us in a state. How many exhibition openings, studio tours, markets, workshops and screenings can one person attend in twelve days? (Without the aid of stimulants.) Discover your limits once and for all when Victoria's annual design festival kicks off on 14 July. The Design
For Everyone program is a good place to start, featuring events such as Melbourne
Open House (snoop around famous buildings), Typeface (a new film about the revival of letterpress) and Counter
Point (test two 'peddle-powered retail prototypes'). Coffee available.
14–25 July
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Lucy Feagins:
Winter is a great time for events in Melbourne. There's MIFF if you don't mind braving the queues, and State
of Design is Melbourne's design festival, held every year in July. The
Design Files is a 'media partner' of the festival again this year – which is a loose term that seems to revolve around me signing up for way too many events, trying to interview/review everyone and everything for ten days straight and getting very inspired but extremely flustered! It is bonkers busy but Melbourne really does seem to have a brilliant buzz about it at this special time! Also this winter I can't wait for Tim
Burton, The Exhibition at ACMI from June 24 – unmissable. |
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RETAIL
Thread Den Fitzroy
If you're afraid of sewing, Thread
Den is here to stitch that problem in the bud. Especially now that their North Melbourne sewing lounge has an Art Deco sibling on Brunswick Street. The street-level retail space is all about DIY threads and wearables by local designers and talented Den alumni. Venture upstairs if you want to know how to make kimonos, khakis and stylish sling bags like they do. You'll find a league of Husqvarna machines and overlockers at your service, and several nice ladies who'll show
you how to use them.
422 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
Tel: 03 9486 9821. |
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Lucy Feagins:
Shopping in Melbourne is frighteningly good, even between seasons. Gertrude Street, Fitzroy is no secret, but it's my favourite shopping haunt. Cottage
Industry for the best in local craft, Industria for salvaged industrial treasures, and Assin or Left for painfully cool art-gallery-type sculptural clothing in black, black, black. At the other end of the spectrum I have a strange, middle-aged softspot for Hawksburn Village – eclectic homewares and inspired window displays at Husk, beautiful beige at Manon Bis, and the new Spacecraft store are all super lovely in a southside sorta way. My favourite Melbourne florist is out here too – The
Fresh Flower Man in Malvern Road just gets it right every time. |
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NIGHTLIFE
The Junior Talks series
If ever there was a mid-week night on the tiles that'll make the Thursday hangover worth it, the Junior Talks series is it. Junior is a Melbourne-based interview website run by a group of Gen Y go-getters whose mission is to find advice for young creatives. The talks series offers cheap drinks and a snappy 'ten slides in ten minutes' presentation by one speaker per month. Recent advice-givers include Frankie editor Jo Walker and Lost & Found guest editor Jeremy
Wortsman. It all happens in the pleasant surrounds of Fitzroy's Workers
Club. First in, first crate-seat.
The Workers Club
51 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
Tel: 03 9415 8889. |
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Lucy Feagins:
Anyone who knows me would scoff if I actually claimed to have any experience of being outside my own home after midnight. I must admit I am a bit of a nanna in that way. I am much more likely to meet for dinner than drinks. My last meal would be at Anada in Gertrude Street, The City
Wine Shop is always faultless for food and wine, and you can't go past the old favourites – Mario's in Brunswick Street or Tiamo in Lygon Street, Carlton for an honest Italian feed. When it comes to bars, I am never ahead of the pack, but Mr
Wilkinson in Brunswick is my second home – actually it is pretty much my loungeroom. |
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OF THE BEST...
DIY supplies (from bike parts to buttons) |
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Lucy Feagins:
I LOVE Melbourne and I sing this city's praises daily. If there's one downside to living in our lovely village city, I would say it's perhaps just too easy to get stuck in a 'favourites' rut, and forget to try out the endless stream of new places. For instance, I only just visited Gills
Diner recently – brilliant! Should have been there long ago. It's not that I didn't know it existed...I was just spending all my birthday dinners at Anada, you know? Next on my list of 'new-ish' stuff to do: dinner at Supermaxi in North Fitzroy, retail therapy at Arabella
Ramsey's pop-up shop in the GPO building, and also I have to hunt Joost
Bakker down in his UrbanCrop van and buy some super-charged tulips. |
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WIN
Ideas don't have to be earth-shatteringly big to be good; in
fact, they come in all shapes and sizes. Zip Zips are the perfect
vessel for good ideas, because they are one themselves. These
cute little USB drives/building blocks are the brainchild of
a Melbourne lad called Edmund Griffith, and are now sold all
over the world. This month, we have one 8GB Zip
Zip to give away!
To enter, tell us an idea you wish you had come up with. Email
us (use the link, don't reply) – including your answer in the
subject line by 5pm Monday 28 June. |
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