Tape Purses and Craft Fayres

New poster Angela Wassel chipped in with a cool take on 

the 1980's icon the cassette tape."When it comes to really cool stuff.." 

says Angela, "I think that you don't need to look much further than 

your local craft fayre." Fair point and all the better is they're held 

in shabby-chic, creative hang-outs like MONO, I say.

Check out Glasgow Craft Mafia, if handmade, quirky things be your 

hemp-knitted, biodegradable bag.

More to follow...

A Good Stamp These Days is Hard to Find

Is it just me or have stamps got really rubbish? 

Well at least someone is putting the effort in. 

Meet Gavin Potenza - fighting the cause for good stamp design.

Go Stamps.

Ponoko - 2D Laser cutting service

Laser-cut and etch your life away at www.ponoko.com/

All manner of things can be produced from Type Coasters to unusable 

Clothes-peg Cutlery thingys, Fruit Bowls to the obligatory Cock Ring 

(every home should have one..) And in an impressive array of materials too. 

Or you could always just nip down to the Product Design department 

and charm them into doing it for you. 

But can they offer leather and bamboo - that's the question?