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REMORANDOM 1
REMORANDOM 1
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We ship from REMO in Bondi. However, just about everything bearing a design is now printed to order and shipped from a production facility in Victoria. This new process takes a little longer, but the wait is worthwhile. For Regular Shipping orders, it takes roughly 7 to 15 business days to custom print and deliver your order using Australia Post. Some places outside metropolitan areas may take a bit longer. Need them a bit faster? Select the Express delivery option and we will use that method of shipping, although this will not speed the production process itself.Please note that international orders may be subject to additional customs fees and duties, which are the responsibility of the customer.CustOMERs can return or exchange for any reason whatsoever. Please just send the items back to us at PO Box 7488 Bondi Beach 2026 in the original packaging with clear exchange or return instructions.Having said this, all REMO merchandise bearing designs is now custom made to order. We do not operate a physical store and have no use for returned t shirts. Therefore, we would ask you then to please be very careful with T Shirt size selection. There is a table on every T Shirt product page that sets out relatively exact measurements for both width and length of the various sizes. If you have a T Shirt you like and a ruler near by, you should be able to work out your size. Also, AS Colour is a relatively well known brand, especially in the Australian market, so many of you would already know your size for that brand.
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 59 reviews.
Unbeknownst to me the recipient of this delight has been an avid admirer for years. It was met with great joy and the collection is underway.
Great gift for someone travelling.
Love these books!
Somehow, lost my book 1 and needed to re order, came through in a day or two. Got through it by the pool, great conversation starter. Only have book 5 left to read.. Will be keeping the set in mind for gifts.. Thanks!!
Content great as expected. You could get away with bulkier paper stock. Love the ribbon
Amsterdam says thank you 🙏
Loved going to the Remo on Oxford Street all those years ago and so glad to be able to enjoy a new slice of Remo now
Fascinating! Will keep us entertained all summer and longer when we order the next volumes!
Like a good friend, you can sit down with it and learning something interesting every time.
Just received my copy today & I'm as excited as I was when I first walked into the Oxford St store back in 1988. I look fwd to immersing (& losing!) myself in it like I used to with every REMO catalogue. Happy days!
Always a Fan More than 30 years ago, I got a [Genetics Guinea Pig] T-shirt from the wonderful REMO store on Oxford Street. Now, in his inimitable style, Remo Giuffré has published this intriguing and entertaining volume of stuff you probably didn't know, but will be quite glad to discover. What was the highest scoring Scrabble word of all time? What defines a Mobius strip? And can you possibly manage a Fosbury Flop yourself? Remo - as always - has a long-term vision; this is number one in a series!
Amazing REMORANDOM is amazing, what a bloody treasure trove – I've put in my subscription order just now :) One of my favourite books of all time is 'The Art of Looking Sideways' – this feels similarly expansive and wonderful, I can't wait to read them!
So Good Just got my copy of Remorandom 1. Can’t put it down! It was supposed to be a Christmas present for me but I couldn’t wait. (Yes we sometimes buy our own Xmas gifts.) So good. Love it!
Beautifully presented, entertaining reading My grandmother had a huge collection of old Readers Digests when I was a kid, and I'd spend hours flipping through them, even when much of the contents were about adult things I didn't understand. Buried deep within those dusty pages were tidbits, surprising facts and arcana that made me feel that the world was so much larger than I could possibly comprehend, and the breadth of human knowledge about how the world worked could be overwhelming but fascinating, entertaining and surprising. REMORANDOM is a modern-day equivalent, bringing us a cornucopia of origin stories, deep dives and surprising left-turns on the path from obliviousness to enlightenment. It's beautifully designed and printed and makes a wonderful gift for the thinkers in your life, but mine will probably stay with me, to form an archive over time, like my grandmother's collection of Readers Digests.
Cornucopia of Curiosity My wife Jane had an English teacher Mr. Bristow who berated restless students with the words, “Girls, to be interesting, you must be interested.” And so it is with Remo and REMORANDOM, which is a cornucopia of curiosity. I’d visit and buy REMO on Oxford St whenever I was visiting Sydney and then had the good luck for Remo to be the first person I met at an early TED conference in Monterey. Two Antipodeans in a room full of Silicon Valleyites; there must have been a Downunder homing device. Our liege, TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, is motivated by his ignorance. His mother used to say to him after school, “Ricky, did you ask any good questions today?” My favorites in REMORANDOM are Serendipity (fortuitous connection or discovery out of the blue [good not bad]), Ikigai (reason for being), Jantelagen (put society ahead of the individual), NATO Phonetic Alphabet (H for HOTEL), and Untranslatable Words (Schadenfreude!). REMO and Dictionary don’t quite mesh as a brand, but REMORANDOM has a ‘Dictionary of The Very Interesting' in its future.
Love It Love the book. On my third read. Looking forward to Vol 2.
Wonderful RemoRandom is wonderful! I’ve enjoyed looking through it, and learning about the back-stories of so many iconic twentieth century design objects. Congratulations on this fine new endeavor, which I can tell is bringing you (and others) much joy!
The Perfect Holiday Read I LOVED it, and was very pleased to see one of my ideas (The Hanky Code) included in this first instalment! REMORANDOM is indeed a perfect holiday read and Christmas gift idea.
A Feast Absolutely love REMORANDOM! It’s a beautiful feast.
Exceptional REMORANDOM is exceptional, both as an amusing and revealing read and as a conceptual counterpart of what gave the REMO store its playful idiosyncrasy. Am confining myself to one initial letter a day to make it last longer.
Always the best Remo never disappoints, the book arrived and it is outstanding? Thanks for another delightful product. Although my T-Shirt collection has slowly dissapeared, the memories are deep and wonderful. Thanks for every little thing that you guys do.
Great Social History and Window into Human Creativity Sure, you know what the Limbo dance is, but do you know of its origins on slave ships? How the Slinky came to be? Who invented Scrabble? Jigsaw puzzles? Safety pins? Who the Huldufólk are, or what a Balikbayan box is? Each REMORANDOM topic includes an erudite, delightfully written account and a page of explanatory illustrations. Individually, they explain how and why certain things came to be and why they may be of greater or lesser significance. Collectively, they represent a hidden social history of mankind, a language of ideas and creativity that lies behind concepts from the most mundane to the most eccentric. What makes it really work is how Remo’s obvious and endearing love for the stories behind the quirks shines through. Some may view REMORANDOM as mere trivia, of no importance and little relevance. On that level, it is, at least, highly entertaining Others, like me, will see it as a window into human creativity, a way of answering unasked questions that may change their perspective and encourage new perceptions.
Happiness Love the book and can’t wait till the next edition. I slowed down reading it to make it last longer. Congrats and thanks
Bello! Remorandom è bello!
Can't Wait for the Next Edition Congratulations and thank you very much for the fantastic first addition of Remorandom. I read it from cover to cover the first day I got it and can’t wait for your next addition. I’ll be buying a few copies for presents for this year’s Christmas.
Delightful! A wild mish mash of eclectic curiosities. Very entertaining.
Ideal Toilet Book Recently I received this book in the post. It's by Remo Guiffre, whom I've known since the 1980s when he ran his signature boutique department store on Oxford Street in Sydney. Since then as far as I know he's conducted his business mainly by mail order, and has diversified into print. His book is bright, breezy and clever. In my experience "clever" in recent years has sometimes become a disparaging description applied to clever people by ones generally less so, but who fancy themselves as "deeper". But this is an engagingly clever book by a clever fellow. The title does not lie... each of its bite-sized popular culture tidbits is interesting. Its scope ranges from the much loved-hated Comic Sans typeface to Philippe Starck's wonderful "alien" juicer (where did mine end up, I wonder..?) to the backstory of TED talks and the flag of Esperanto (who knew it had a flag... it's a language, and an invented one at that). Although the pieces are arranged alphabetically, the book is essentially a grab-bag from the brain of someone who finds the world and its particularities and cultural minutiae endlessly intriguing. PS: I find it makes an ideal Toilet Book. Now I know some will sniff (sorry) at the very idea, but such works are important. Toilet Books are a genre unto themselves. They need to be relaxing reading, and preferably short pieces, like this. "Do yourself a favour" and station your copy by the loo.
A great present Thrilled to have my copy. REMO: always thorough, curious, generous and interesting. A great present!! Much to discover.
Enlightening Tonight we gathered at Ariel in Paddo for the launch of a book of snack-sized fun facts - and, more entertainingly, the many tributaries that nourish those facts. It’s taken the wondering and wandering mind of Remo Giuffré to assemble the treasures that fill the pages of REMORANDOM. It enlightens us, for instance, with the history (since Christ was a nipper) of the word abracadabra. It reveals more about absinthe than you ever realised mattered (including that a French addiction-support agency, in 1907, gathered 400,000 signatures on a petition that declared: “Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis … “ And we’re not out of the As yet. This is the same curious mind that gave us the REMO General Store in Darlo (1988) and the General Thinking network (2001) and who’s brought us TEDxSydney since 2009. This book’s a delight. Check it out. And for twice-yearly updates on a deep well of curiosities, you can subscribe to #remorandom
Addictive & Flickable The postman knocked twice this morning and look what I found! A little red book full to the brim of skerricks, slivers, snippets and stories about, well, many many intriguing things - from an explanation of the Neapolitan corno to a reminder of those much loved comic book ads for Sea Monkeys to a short essay on Japanese blowfish to the use of pictures of flies in Amsterdam urinals. Oh and so much more! Remorandom is addictive, flickable, makes you want to delve and share and as always with Remo Giuffré stuff, to feast the eyes. It arrived here in London the day of launch in Sydney - it’s already on my Christmas list for several friends. Subscribe and I know that twice a year you’ll smile widely and learn something - just as I have today! #remorandom (Remo I didn’t know your mum was mezza Napoletana! The best, of course!)
TikTok in Print Whilst attempting to get my 13 year old daughter Dali off her mobile phone and into a book with pages, along comes Remo's REMORANDOM. I sold it to her as "a sophisticated retro version of TikTok, a real page turner”. It worked and she loves it. So do I. It's fantastic.
Eclectic & Illuminating The insanely eclectic, endlessly illuminating items in the first issue range from explanations of abracadabra, absinthe and the ampersand, to Velcro, XXX and YInMn Blue. If you are interested in everything interesting – if you’re not, why not?! – then this is the book for you.
Entertaining A great and entertaining collection of information and images.
Exhilarating I’m not quite sure how to describe this book, other than to say it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, and exhilarating. Author Remo Giuffré describes it as “a printed curation of snack-sized facts” for a “global community of curious readers” and hey, isn’t that you? So we learn a little about the Adirondack chair (it’s my favourite outdoor chair, so he had me at hello there), the cornicello (a classic Neapolitan good luck charm) and Swiss railway clocks, which are gorgeous. Besides producing this book, the author was founder of TEDxSydney. Head to his exuberant website (REMOSince1988.com) for copies; the book comes with a subscription to his website, which is a dazzling entree to his mind.
Quirky and Smart Just received my copy of REMORANDOM (there's a reverse 'R' in the middle). I loved that store. Did a feature story for the SMH on the store in the late 80s. From a unique man, a fantastic and characteristically quirky and smart book!
Fabulosity! This is fabulosity! There’s many out there who’ll remember and loved the big REMO store on Oxford Street. Remo the store and Remo the man never went away, but now have returned with this fabulous book of “interesting” … REMORANDOM. It's captivating, highly amusing and fantastically interesting.
Analogue Enjoyment and Learnings Received my copy of RR1 today and have started reading it. What a great idea. Great quality. Fun read. Interesting. So good to disconnect. Looking forward to RR2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and on and on. Welcome back Remo!
Adds to My Arsenal of Random Facts Love RemoRandom. As someone who knows a little bit about a lot and a lot about very little, this is a welcome addition to my arsenal of random facts. RemoRandom will definitely be filling a few Christmas stockings this year.
Delighted & Excited Hello Mr Remo, I’m writing from my plane to Singapore. I have been reading Remorandom front to back and just wanted to send you a note to say how delighted and excited I am by it. Such a rich history of so many cool and curious things. I’ve learned so much and am thinking about who I can subscribe this for as gifts for Christmas.