Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Adelaide and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Ballet V Alpha60 limited-edition T-shirt
Coco Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Toni Maticevski, Christian Dior and Kit Willow. Maverick designers have long sung duets with ballet. And the latest designers to catch pointe shoe fever are Alpha60, who teamed up with The Australian Ballet to stitch something up.
The product of this union is a typical Alpha60 monochromatic image printed onto a loose-fitting, unisex tee.
Street Dreams T-Shirt Party
We've got the goods at Format. Well actually we don't. You see, we're doing that whole DIY schtick. What we do have is a T-Shirt Party, coordinated by the beautiful Format member - Simon Loffler. You've probably heard of him - Loffler has coordinated the Format Street Art program for two years running, was the founder of the infamous Ex-A-Sketch, and is just an all round charming guy.
ffiXXed SS10, Unseen Utopias
ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project that recognises the need for sustainable creative practices, delving beyond pure aesthetic to create readymade fashion products that are a pragmatic response to living arrangements. Helmed by ex-pat Australians and Internetwork contributors Kain Picken and Fiona Lau, ffiXXed is created between studios in Berlin, New York, and Hong Kong, essentially maintaining a roaming headquarters responsive to global influences.
Mathematical Quilts
The maths pleb may think maths is all about abacuses and number crunching and imaginary pie. The fact is, it's all this and so much more. Meet Elaine Krajenke Ellison. She's a retired high school teacher who also enjoys quilting.
Perhaps you don't think maths has much to do with quilts, but you don't have a BA in Mathematics from Michigan State, do you? Elaine's love of maths inspires the patterns.
Zooper Dooper popsicles
Alfred Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons. I measure mine in Zooper Doopers. Motivated by this long hot summer (and childhood nostalgia), I've become addicted (although at 20c a pop, a freeze-your-own-popsicle habit is hardly debilitating). But which to choose? Funny Faces are defunct.
Rani Rose
SASA graduate Rani Rose specialises in handcrafted glass and sterling silver pieces that quite often look good enough to eat. Rani has turned her love of creating, making and doing into a full-time occupation, producing one of a kind jewels from her tiny studio in Thebarton. Disheartened by the concept of the "daily grind" (not just because her boss was a massive bitch, but that was definitely a contributing factor), Rani quit her customer service job, completed a small business management course, and got one of those grants that all the kids are talkin' about (they give you money for FREE.
Pendleton Blankets
"The round stones beneath the earth have spoken through the fire. Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike, and the speaking stones have lain a long time looking at the sun." Nobody - Dead Man (1995) dir. Jim Jarmusch
In this country, spirituality is as rare as peyote. We look all too often to utility, forgetting our own experience in the process.
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