Cigarette cases were once a must have accessory, glamorising your everyday routine. This kitsch version incorporates some fantastic art to give a 50s pin-up feel to the item.
Featuring art by Mitch O'Connell, this No Worries case sells itself with the cute and sassy imagery. It's quality too, in a silver-tone finish and with coating to ensure this will last for years without peeling or cracking.
Get it online from Pin-Up Girl Clothing for $32.
Children’s design doesn’t have to mean fluffy bunnies in pastel colours, and nobody recognises that more than the company Our Children’s Gorilla. Amongst their unusual and often bizarre designs, is this particular gem, “Children Unite” Poster.
Quite obviously based on revolutionary posters from the 1960s, the poster makes a bold statement. Whilst your child may not recognise the reference, they may well appreciate the rebellious sentiment.
The poster costs £17 directly from Our Children’s Gorilla.
Some years back, I wandered into a dusty old secondhand camera shop and on the advice of the owner, bought an as-new Olympus Trip for around £20. It didn't let me down and is still in fine working order. You can do much the same at Trip Man.
The Trip was around from the late 60s through to the 80s, famously advertised by David Bailey, it was a fully automatic 35mm film camera that was both compact and solid, with a great quality f2.8 Zuiko lens and sold at a price everyone could afford. But above all, it looked very cool – and still does today.
Trip Man is still selling reconditioned Trips and accessories, maintaining that low price point, certainly compared to some of the recent Lomo cameras. The one above is a Trip 35 with white leather finish, selling for just £39.50. Just pick up some 35mm film and you're away.
Want to turn your pad into a 60s psychedelic nightmare? You need to invest in this Down The Rabbit Hole giant wall decal.
If any of your friends suffer from vertigo or are easy freaked out, you perhaps need to think twice before you buy because this is huge and very imposing. Sized at 12ft x 10ft, it's like having a tunnel into a Bridget Riley painting – which could be either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your mental state I suspect.
This custom-made vinyl creation isn't cheap at $850, but if you want impact, this has it and much, much more.
Find out more at the babygeared website
Via Nook
What is it with Lomo and limited editions? Last year we seemed to have a Diana camera every week, this year it's the Lomo LC- A+, presumably because it's the camera's 25th anniversary. So for all you collectors out there, here's another – the Lomo LC-A+ No Nukes limited edition camera.
Designed by the Lomography Embassy in South Korea as a protest against the proliferation of nuclear weapons, it's the same classic LC A+ film camera with Minitar 1 lens, multi-exposure switch and multiple accessory options, but this time there's also a specially-designed leather body and No Nukes commemorative wooden box.
Not many around (500 to be specific), so if you want one, get in quick. Prices obviously vary depending on the package you go for, but the starter is yours for £257.95.
The actual show might have passed, but this incredibly eye-catching poster for Post-War plastics: Dieter Rams’s innovations in design, 1956 to 1974 is still available – and doesn't cost a fortune.
The poster is the work of NB: Studio and is being offered in limited numbers online, but once they're gone, they're gone. Design fans might apprecate that the poster uses an original photograph from the launch of Vitsoe’s Dieter Rams-designed 601 chair. The rest of you will probably just appreciate the overall stylish looks.
Whatever you like about it, the poster can be yours for just £15.
Via Switched On Art
