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Five of the best vintage Adidas trainers reissues

Five of the best vintage Adidas trainers reissues

Vintage and 1960s t-shirt designs by Mr B’s Soulful Tees

Vintage and 1960s t-shirt designs by Mr B’s Soulful Tees

Retro Cassette Table by RJ Wood Projects

Retro Cassette Table by RJ Wood Projects

Categories / Design and Interiors, Pets

Retro dog collars and leads

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Go down to your local pet store and you’ll probably have very little choice for a dog collar, with the exception of size and colour. That’s not the case at Retro Pet, which has a huge range of retro pet collars, harnesses and leads.

Available for all sizes of dog, you can choose from exotic designs including "Mod Psychedelic Swirl", "Retro Orange Atomic", "Mocha Dahlias" and the one featured here – "Psychedelic Flowers".

Prices vary, with collars around $21 (£11),  leads around $28 (£15) and harnesses around $40 (£22).

Find out more at the Retro Pet website

Categories / Men's Fashion, Sportswear

Savile Rogue – old-style cashmere football scarf

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Football scarfs used to items of purpose – big and woolly, keeping you warm on the terraces in the winter. Then clubs started to "personalise" them with team names, dropping the wool for cheaper man-made fibres.

And now we’ve gone full circle with the Savile Rogue, billed as the world’s most luxurious football scarf. The scarves are produced by one of the oldest cashmere mills in Scotland from the finest cashmere wool – and in a colour scheme of virtually all the world’s leading teams.

Featured above are two examples – Bolton Wanderers and West Ham. Each scarf comes in a presentation box and retails for £36.

Find out more at the Savile Rogue website

Categories / Art and Photography

Keep Calm And Carry On screenprints

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Some months back, we featured the Keep Calm And Carry On poster – an original World War II was discovered in a box of old books by the Barter Books store in Northumberland. When the poster was displayed, it drew a lot if interest – leading to the bookstore selling copies of it.

Well, someone has taken that a step further, producing screenprints of the wartime message in three different shades. The upmarket version is the same size, is offered in peach, pear and plum (instead of the original red). Each two colour screen print is from a numbered edition of 50, hand pulled onto thick 250gsm fine art paper.

They retail for £25 plus £6 postage (wrapped in acid free conservation tissue paper and posted in a durable mailing tube to ensure safe delivery). If that’s a bit rich, Barter Books is still selling their stock of re-print posters for £3.60 each.

Keep Calm website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Eskimo Towelclip radiator

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Yes, good design can extend into the bathroom – check out the Eskimo Towelclip radiator.

In a classic paperclip design, it would look great in any home going for a pop art theme. And on a practical level, it’s sized at 800x250mm, has an output of 45 Watts, is available available in a coloured or chrome finish and is great for drying your towels.

It retails for around £350.

Find out more at the Eskimo Designs website

Categories / Books

LeRoy Grannis – Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s

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Previously available as a limited collector’s edition, Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s by LeRoy Grannis is now available as an unlimited edition from Taschen.

Surfing gradually took hold of America in the 1950s, peaking in popularity during the 60s and 70s. On hand to record that era was LeRoy Grannis, a surfer since 1931, who began photographing the scene in California and Hawaii in the early 1960s.

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Razorblade Mirror

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Another nice piece of design from Suck UK, this time with the Razorblade Mirror, which, as you can see, is based on the shape of a typical razorblade.

Designed by Phil Sims and ideal for a novelty shaving mirror or just an interesting decoration for your living room wall, it’s even got the name of the most famous razorblade-user of all on the front – Sweeney Todd. No details yet on price or availability, but you can register your interest with the company.

Find out more at the Suck UK website