The Thousands City Guides

Get the lowdown Down Under with a city guide app from Aussie indie publishers

A handy guide to Australia’s major metropolises for visitors and residents alike, The Thousands’ new iPhone App covers each location’s most enticing shops, restaurants, exhibitions, gigs and more. Created by Melbourne-based Right Angle Studio—who are also behind the arts-and-culture sites The Thousands, named for Australia’s state postcodes—the City Guides app keeps your finger on the pulse of cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane. …

The Pop Manifesto No. 7

Aussie webzine founders discuss bi-hemisphere collaboration, their DIY publishing ethos and site-crashing mixtapes

In its most recent incarnation, The Pop Manifesto hovers between its origins as a ‘zine and tastemaking publication that traces the leading edge of graphic design. Focusing on Japan, the latest issue includes both a round up of under-the-radar creative Tokyoites and Diet Butcher Slim Skin, the Kanye-approved menswear designer. Its Australian founders, editor Ilirjana Alushaj and art director Karl Maier, started the publication five …

B&M Store

Design, crafts and exclusives at a new modern curiosity shop in Western Australia

Located in Western Australia, the newly-opened B&M Store carries a carefully edited selection of design wares alongside proprietors’ Bug & Megs‘ signature handmade 100% wool felt products. Housed on recycled pine shelves, goods such as the CH fave carry-all Baggu, bento and lunch boxes from Japanese/Danish brand HanaBlomst, pixelated eBoy posters, Cardboard Safari animals and a bevy of curious magazines and stationery make up the …