Visit us at the market this Sunday

17 July 2009
Meow towel

Meow towel

THIS IS NOT A DESIGN MARKET opens this Sunday 19 July 2009, 9am to 5pm, 500 La Trobe Street, Melbourne as part of the State of Design festival.

The studio has developed a range of new products, including new badges, a limited edition set of tea towels, For Love for Money photography publication, greeting cards, match books, etc,

Drop in and say hi.,

Discover the other stall holders visit the market for details.

Alpha city tea towel

Alpha city tea towel

Artist’s prototypes

Artist’s prototypes

Ttowel

Ttowel

4 comments

4 Comments so far

  1. Simon Food Favourites July 18th, 2009 1:50 pm

    nice work!

  2. bruce September 2nd, 2009 12:50 am

    I really like your stuff

    is a bit unfortunate as the Tt* teat towel looks very much like a frost design piece(akzidenz grotesk super looking font and asterisk), unfortunate as you guys crap all over frost design

  3. doug October 21st, 2009 2:46 pm

    seems that Third Drawer Down has been a huge inspiration – not on a graphic sense but the photo idea of someone hiding behind them. have been seeing a few graphic designers thinking they can do what TDD has been doing for a long time now.

  4. Toward Hansen October 21st, 2009 8:19 pm

    Thanks for your comments Doug, there are endlesss experts out there with an opinion on who did it first, and who’s work is what. Neither Third Drawer Down, or our studio has exclusive rights to putting graphics on a tea towel, t-shirt or tea cosy. The tourism sector has been doing it for decades. For the record Doug, Andrew put graphics of a design nature on two tea towels as part of a comprehensive promotion for Saxton paper in 1999, along with other print based items, which pre dates TDD’s inception in 2003. We think that it great that companies like TDD exist as they are an exciting alternative to all the naff accessories for the home. Doug, a little home work would be useful in this instance, before you let fly with your insights and opinions.

    As for hiding behind the images we make, this is a process of documentation that dates back to Andrew’s Nelmes Smith Ashton days. Since 1994 Andrew has included people in his work, again Doug if you would like us dig the reference again we can. Yet again, the notion of people interacting with the work they make in a discrete way is by no means new or an inspiration – it has been out there for a while now and it makes sense for an object like a tea towel to just hold the thing up in front of you.

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