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Limited Edition from CHCH

Elliot — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:41:36 +0000

Franz Tormers are a creative collective from Christchurch, their day job is Out of the Blue. We have a selection of their cool limited edition t-shirts and tote bags. Runs of 10 and 20 make these special and hard to get. Franz Tormers concept is to design for some, not everyone.

Land of the Long White Cloud by Florian Habicht

Elliot — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:08:42 +0000

Hopefully you have seen the 2004 film Kaikohe Demolition by Florian Habicht. If not watch it now. Then go and see the latest film by Florian called Land of the Long White Cloud. We watched it last night and it’s another great doco/film providing a raw insight into a Northland tradition. It’s even better if you like fishing bro.

I Love Ugly opens boutique

Elliot — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:36:55 +0000

Tucked away in a small group of shops down Mt Eden Road is I Love Ugly’s new boutique store Broken Puppet. V who runs the brand used to stock us with his tees as a part time gig while he ran the logistics at AS Colour. What began as a thing on the side is now a boutique store that stocks his brand I Love Ugly, and a couple of special ones from far away places like the Netherlands. Check it out, get a limited edition tee and get weird eyes looking at the black & white checkered wall behind the counter. Nice one V & Co.

Typography, Poetry & Video

Elliot — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:27:57 +0000

A great video poem about our odd overuse of “like” and “?” etc. Have never been fans of poems but this is something else.

Bombs and Ice Creams

Elliot — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:18:53 +0000

Since last Friday we have watched this 500 times. We wish it was a full length feature. It had only 2500 views last night, now it has almost 17,000. It should be at the Oscars today… actually its too cool for that.

Friday Newsletter

Elliot — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:20:19 +0000

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Chill’n like a Villian

Elliot — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:19:18 +0000

Since we have sooo much coool shit here we have had to beef up security, introducing stormtrooper, don’t even think of using a jedi mind trick.

MCB featured

Elliot — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:01:19 +0000

Two fresh New Zealand photographers featured on mychillybin recently. Check them out. AK sunsets and sheep models are today’s theme. It’s also cool to see designers using their work.

Nazar Abbas

Birgitt Gaszikowski

FREE NZ shipping till midnight Sunday

Elliot — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:45:17 +0000

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That’s just for you guys, use it as often as you like… now have a primo weekend.

A different kind of street art

Elliot — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:37:26 +0000

A public bench outside the ferry building in Devonport Auckland has been hit with a cushion and sheet for extra comfort. Someone should up this until we have leather couches in every NZ city. Gold trim anyone? Apologies for the shitty image, we only had a battling old Niokia on us at the time.

Public Address

Elliot — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:07:29 +0000

Hey this is on, it will be hotness motness, go buy some art.

Nothing makes us froth more than helping promote NZ art and design exhibitions. It’s free, cause we made it so, send us your banner yo.

Hand drawn type from India

Elliot — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:53:25 +0000

It’s impressive whenever you see someone hand draw a common typeface like Helvetica in accurate proportions. It’s stunning to see the hand drawn typefaces like those on the streets of India. Dig the flare and the “no rules apply” style. Not to mention the brightness, they make some of our billboards look so dull. The word “juice” makes you thirsty.

Found Via Random Specific

We are fans of Meena Kadri, her blog Random Specific, her impressive photography and story telling of what typography, graphic design and signage is like in India. We were lucky enough to hear her speak at Design Assembly last year.

Get on your bike cart full of paint brushes and find a dusty wall.

Cut Collective Collab at Splore 2010

Elliot — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:57:51 +0000

Cut Collective and architectural graduate Jasper Middleton have combined forces to create a dramatic installation built and displayed for the Splore Festival at Tapapakanga Regional Park south of Auckland. Lucky buggers who get to ‘get on down’ for the next three days. The futuristic 2050 dress up theme night sounds crazy.

Couple of lucky staff will be there. Party on people. Nice work Cut Collective and Jasper… Street Art meets architecture… mean.

Drooling over the newness

Elliot — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:32:19 +0000

So we have been busy working with Studio Alexander designing and building the new endemicworld.com. It’s been a blast, we have lots instore for all of you. We hope you have discovered some of the new features like tags, wishlists, accounts & address books, shipping estimator in the checkout etc.

There is more coming too. We want you to have fun shopping at endemicworld.com.

Give us some feedback. Thanks for spreading the word and helping us make NZ Designers famous. The newsletter goes out tomorrow, a few changes there too!