We’ve bemoaned the demise of the Mix Tape here before so were pleased to see that we weren’t alone in missing it when we came across the “Play a Song for Me” Bag.
Designed by Hanna Melin, it is a white bag decorated with blue pencil drawings of a collection of old mix tapes of songs filled with memories of the past. It is made from 100% organic cotton and although produced in India, it hasn’t been flown here so it has sound environmental credentials.
It costs £9.95 and can be bought from the Hidden Art Shop.
The Milan Clock is a striking new design by Thomas Kent but it still has a retro edge thanks to its choice of font and shape. 
Ceramics company Portmeirion was founded in 1960 and that decade’s styles continue to influence their designs today. Although just released in 2007, the Crazy Daisy range has a clear retro style with its flower power motif. 
A combination of environmental, health and financial concerns has ensured that growing your own vegetables is enjoying quite a revival. If you fancy yourself as Tom or Barbara Good from “The Good Life”, you could take your first steps towards self-sufficiency with these Culinary Quirks Seeds from Labour and Wait. 
Its not difficult to pick up a retro style bins these days given the dominance of the chrome style by Brabantia, but the Artala Waste Baskets by Umbra are something a bit different. 
In the 1950s 3-D was hailed as the future of cinema, but the initial enthusiasm for the medium was not sustained and these days it is very much seen as a gimmick or relic of the past. 
