The Kickstarter campaign for REMORANDOM has finished. Most backers have registered their subscriptions via our website, and to those new CustOMERs ... Welcome to REMO!
It's not too late to become a "Foundation Subscriber" to REMORANDOM with access to keyring, lapel pin, VIP discounts, event invitations, etc. You can do that HERE.
We're travelling into the Australian desert with both kids and partners for a couple of weeks in June, leaving only a short time for me to wrangle the remaining content for RR#1. As I say in the video that accompanied our fund raising campaign "The world is full of interesting" ... and there's no shortage of ideas for the 15 or so remaining slots.
This week I had fun researching and writing:
1. Fisher Space Pen
Developed in 1965 to perform in the weightlessness of space. Selected by NASA for use on the Apollo Missions. To this day the Fisher Space Pen AG7 ("AG" as in Anti Gravity) is used on all manned space flights: American, Russian and Chinese; and the Fisher family has built a small but global business on the back of that single engineering innovation.Learn more HERE.
As it happens we sell this pen. You can order it HERE.
2. Obey Giant
Obey Giant is a zeitgeisty brand and 30+ year cultural phenomenon that combines street art, propaganda and viral marketing with a liberal dash of philosophy. The campaign featuring stickers and posters pairing André the Giant's face with the single words OBEY or GIANT. The image has no meaning ... and that's the whole point. Learn more HERE.
3. Juicy Salif
Juicy Salif, a citrus juicer designed by French designer Philippe Starck in 1990, is considered an icon of industrial design. This is all despite the fact that it doesn’t function all that well as a juicer. Alberto Alessi, President of the eponymous Italian kitchenware company that makes it, calls Juicy Salif “the most controversial lemon juicer of the century.” Learn more HERE.
On the designs front we are sorting through a range of options sent to us by longtime REMO collaborator and one-woman creative engine Laurie Rosenwald. More about Laurie next week, but you can get a taste by watching this video promoting a very unique workshop she runs called "Making Mistakes on Purpose" documented in her recently published book of the same name. I urge you to check it out HERE.
Finally some good news on the Stripey Things front. You may recall that we thought that this product was coming to an end due to various factory closures here in Australia. Well, the news just in is that we have managed to source some 100% cotton yarn that we will be able to get knitted into our fabric and made into garments down here. However, the cotton won't be organic ... so we need new labels.
There is still some organic stock left in the navy if you want to jump on it HERE. Here's what's left, with size followed by remaining quantity:
2XS (10), XS (11), S (11), M (27), L (42), XL (2)
Cheers,
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