Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

Mrs Gust, Mr Flurry, Ms Drizzle, Dr Rainbow and Miss Sunny. This Whether the Weather small print series by Mademoiselle Michelle is so sweet it might give you cavities. Titchy tiny limited edition artworks for little nooks and light pockets – available individually or with a sweet little discount if you buy all five. Either way, I want to know which university Rainbow got his doctorate at?

www.mitchellanddent.com.au

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We recently met design student Miss Megan Isabella and had a nice cup of tea together, chitchatting about terribly important things like cats and Frankie magazine and paper dolls and, oh yes of course, design. We do get sidetracked at Mitchell & Dent. You however, you can cut straight to the point and see Megan’s winter portrait project by clicking here. There is no better way to support your up-and-coming illustrators.

meganisabella.com

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Our Mitchell & Dent studio walls are bare, we know. Not by design but through a lack of design. How the heck can anyone decide what to surround themselves in, when folks like Trove from NYC keep coming up with large image wallpapers like Indi (left) and printed wood veneer wallpapers like Alcyone (right)? Clearly it is some kind of wonderful torture.

www.troveline.com

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So. Here at M&D we are completely addicted to Pinterest (more about that in the days to come), but this is how the wonderful web works… the very clever Dana Hughes, interior designer in Sydney and creator of the inspirational design blog Yellow Trace (go! see!), posted these amazing hand blown glass bottles by New York designer Elizabeth Lyons on Pinterest and we fell in love with them and posted them for you to see. We love the internets.

www.lyonsglass.com

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My most favourite pair of quilted, bowed, red flats have finally given up the ghost today. And as is customary with all wonderful shoes I’m not willing to part with, I will now pop them in my wardrobe for an extended period of time to glance at wistfully, before moving them to their final rubbish bin resting place. Of course, looking at lovely new flats from abroad that I cannot possibly lay my mitts on, doesn’t help one little bit. Damn you Anthropologie, Paul Smith, Irregular Choice and Kate Spade (clockwise from top left).

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Carboard Safari have made it so we can feel like intrepid adventurers without the pith helmet, safari suit or all the animal cruelty. These spiffy-looking animal heads are made of cardboard and come flatpacked so you can assemble them yourself and dress them up however you may desire. Marvellous.

www.cardboardsafari.com

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Getting up this morning I felt like Dr Foster who went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. Walking out my front door, my muddle was definitely in danger of getting a little soggy. This is not a smooth segue, but what about this great picture book of another children’s rhyme ‘There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly’? Mutt Ink, you sure do brighten a dull day (see what I did there, it all comes good in the end).

www.muttink.com

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In primary school I always remember having to rule my own margins in my text books before writing. Even with a ruler I still managed to get the lines a little wonky, a little imperfect, just like these tees.

www.artwareeditions.com

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I don’t know what I can say. There are a few artists I am such a sad fan of. Jonathan Adler (and his most wonderful menegerie). Wes Anderson, of course. Josh Agle and his retro-y goodness. When I met Shag I couldn’t string two words together and could have curled up and died when my mister asked him what kind of paint he uses, just to fill an uncomfortable silence. Sometimes a real life command-Z would come in mighty handy.

www.jonathanadler.com

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Mesdames Mitchell & Dent‘s media of choice might be paper, but we’ve got nothing on Dutch artist Ferry Staverman. Sculptures for swooning over.

www.ferrystaverman.nl

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