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Mountain Boy Sledworks
A toboggan has always been a standard piece of equipment in our family, used for hunting, Xmas tree hauling, backcountry skiing and sledding. Might be time to replace the old beater with a shiny new number from Mountain Boy Sledworks. I’ve also been pretty fascinated by the kicksled culture and would love to take one [...]
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Agatha Christie Art
I know I might be bordering on lunacy with my Poirot and Miss Marple obsession (seriously, nobody in their right mind would watch Evil Under the Sun twice much less 50 times) , but you have to admit, there is some good design happening in this series of Agatha Christie prints.
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Off the Hanger: Bindery Dept.
When I was cutting my teeth in the design world, I spent about a year waiting for a position to open in the design department at a print shop. During that year I worked bindery, and I have to say it was really a great experience. Pretty thankless, but a trial by fire job of [...]
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Atmosphere Mountainworks: Laramie, WY
I know you remember me talking about this guy when we lived in Laramie, he was the one that made us custom dog coats and sewed some Grateful Dead patches on the back (I think that was his idea, but a good one). Looks like some smart Japanese folk decided to buy up a bit [...]
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Patterns after Plaid
After finding myself, quite by accident, in the local mall, I was completely inundated with all the plaid in the windows. I now understand why Liberty Prints are going to work in the spring, we’ll be sick to death of plaid thru mass over consumption. It got me thinking, with that wallpaper resurgence of a [...]
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Sailcloth
In a fun discussion about fabrics and manufacturing and the (very) imitable titanium spork with a friend Sailcloth came up as a fabric of the times. Light, water/weatherproof, strong and just generally very interesting. The above jacket from Quba and the bags from True Wind or from Klein & More seem to be the easy [...]
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Soft Maps
Found this from our friend Renee, what a great idea. Embroidery + maps = perfect. Soft Maps by Emily Fischer.
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Speedvagen Bikes
Handmade in Portland, ‘cross, track, and road. Good lookin stuff. Speedvagen.
Deskadillo from DoubleButter