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November
2012
Nice to meet you : Bureau & Singapore design shopping
posted in Design | Vintage | Nice to meet you
at 3.26 AM
from
Ubud, Bali
/ Indonesia
listening Rufus Wainwright - Want two
Now the site is online, I can go back to my usual posts ! Back on october 18th (read first post here), in Singapore, still guided by Yong, designer behind Somewhere Else. After visiting The gentlemen press letterpress and design studio, and have a nice lunch with the team, Yong bring us to a very nice street full of great shops : Yong Siak Street
Book Actually
We start with the amazing Books Actually, I could live in this shop ! As it said on front, it is a bookstore and a vintage bric-a-brac !!! Books and vintage objects everywhere !!! A must see !
Strangelets
Just at the side of it, is another designers shop, where I can get my fields notes books as I miss some: Stangelets. I also get a copy of the Singapore design magazine The design society journal there.
BUREAU FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LIFESTYLE AND LONGEVITY AND SUCCESS
After these 2 shops, when went to visit Bureau, a creative studio... Graphic designers, but they also do a great line of furnitures...
We then enjoy a nice coffee... Thanks a lot Yong for this great day.
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November
2012
So, after 2 days, I am really happy of all the nice feedbacks I get, email, facebook, twitter... thanks ! I want to post before but thousand things to do and fix...
As you know, sponsors are now included. But I do not want to just have random commercials of non related projects. I want to present shops, products and brands that I like... The only question I ask myself is "would I talk about this product/brand/shop if they werre not a sponsor ?". If they answer is yes, they have to take part of the Mr Cup project...
Each week, I will then present the 1 Product / 1 shop / 1 blog... If you want to be one of them for comming weeks, feel free to contact me.
Product : the helvetica wood letters
So, thanks for all the first orders that prove it was a good idea :) Do not forget the much you order, the more free extra letters you have... Just write your text on the ordering page and you will see the price... Simple...
Shop : Rifle Paper Co
I love the singularity of this brand and all the products they propose... Images are better than words :
Blog : Vintage me oh my
I love the name of this blog !!! Megan did an amazing work, presenting thousand of vintage images. You can also have high resolution images for free... That's what inspires me to do the vintage section of this blog, as I have thousand old papers and photos in my hard drive... This beer stamps are just amazing...
Visit Vintage me oh my
11
November
2012
For Mr-Cup, I want to have unique business cards... I try letterpress for the past 3 years, so I need to push it even further... Here comes the result...
I asked Alex Rinker to do me a cup illustration for the back of the coin. Sorry to said this is a very limited edition, so please do not ask for one ;) I keep it for studio I will visit...
So, why Mr Cup ? Over the years, a lot of people tell me graphic exchange replace the newspaper they read with their coffee every morning + I am coffee addict (I think it would change in Bali, but so good coffee shops here) + Michael Stipe...
More Mr Cup tools can be seen here... waitting for a new letterpress buisness card too !
11
November
2012
So, it is now 00h00 in Bali, and we are the 12 november ! After almost 1 year I get the idea of "Mr-Cup" here it comes, the site is online. A big thanks to Mathieu for his help and for not getting crazy each time I change my mind... Graphic exchange is still my blog, it is now integrated to a bigger project to have everything on the same site.
So in details, Mr Cup is now :
THE sHOP
You can buy the wood products I made in Bali like the Helvetica Wood letters... Choose one letter (19€ each) or compose you own words to have discount : 5 to 8 letters: 1 free letter / 9 to 12 letters: 2 free letters / 13 to 15 letters: 3 free letters / More than 15 letters: 4 free letters
To celebrate this, for any order of wood items (letters or coasters) you will get a MrCup wood coaster (until december 1st).
You can also found some new stickers like the "Cheap/Good/Fast" that I want to do for a long long time... Also, it will much easier now to choose size and color than in the Harmonie interieure site. Check all the Created products in the shop >>
You will also see 2 new sections in the shop, that are not open yet : SELECTED which are items by other designers and brands that I like and FOUND which will be vintage unique objects...
THE work
This section presents my up to date porfolio. Except some projects, I do not really update my portfolio since 2009. So you can now see a lot of new works, in 3 sections : Commissioned / Self Initiated / Photography. Here comes a selection of images, check the work section for much more...
THE blog
So, after 6 years and half, the new Graphic exchange is here... It has all what was missing on the old version : social links, comments, direct links...I also introduce a lot of new sections that need to be fill. We have repost all the articles done since july, all the others ones, thousand and thousand ones done since june 2006 can be found in the archives here.
As you can see, there is also sponsors now. After years doing the blog without it, it was time to bring them in. But I do not want this to be random adverts, I want to select only products and brands that fit with the spirit of this blog. I hope this will help me to dedicate even more time to post and help me to continue to visit studio and share about creativity. If you want to receive the media kit, just contact me at contact(a)mr-cup.com or use the contact page.
A new section is the EVENTS, that I hope will grow in time. I post some for now, but if you have more, you just can submit them using this form. Event submission is free until 2013, then a small contribution will be asked.
That said, I wait for your feedback, and if you see some bugs, please write me or leave a comment... Enjoy life ! (I do).