WhenWeWereKids T-Shirts

The clothing label WhenWeWereKids is the pet project of local graphic designer Rob Trigg (designer for Addict, Carhartt, etc – check Rob’s website www.robtrigg.co.uk for more info). WhenWeWereKids currently has five limited run designs available, all for only £20. Check a couple of the designs below and see them all and order online at whenwewerekids.bigcartel.com.

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YEAH Exhibition and New Issue

YEAH Magazine’s first exhibition has it’s opening night on Monday 16th of August and will also coincide with the release of their next issue. The event will be a big celebration of everything they have achieved since the 1st issue and big thank you to everyone that has supported them so far.

The exhibition will be held at the pop up shop on the roundabout at the end of Commercial Road opposite the One Legged Jockey, just down from Sainsburys. The exhibition will be spread over three rooms which, just like YEAH, will be themed. The first room will be a time-line of what YEAH has achieved since the beginning, the second will be their favourite prints from the last 6 issues and the third will be a launch of their new issue YM007, The Scene.

Find out more at the Facebook event and keep track of updates on YEAH’s Facebook.

(Cover photo by Jak Spedding)

Tags: Yeah Magazine

Josie Young Cycle Caps – Velo Couture

Josie has a fresh new drop of hand made custom cycle caps over at her web shop baroquemyworld. Each cap is loving hand crafted personally by Josie and available at very reasonable prices. Get in quick before they all go. Josie is in the process of making me a custom cap once she gets some orders out of the way. I’ll keep you posted on it’s arrival.

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Collective Summer Show – University of Portsmouth

Collective
Summer show of work for graduating students from Art, Design and Media plus Creative Technologies.
Opening Evening 4 June, 5-8pm
Open to the public Monday 7th-Friday 11th June, 10-4 daily and Saturday 12th June 10-3pm
To complement this, there will be a small exhibition of personal collections from staff in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries.
What is collection and why do we collect?
Members of staff from the Faculty reveal their collective treasures. There will be a small programme of lectures around this event.
CCi Space and Eldon Gallery are open to the public from 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday.

Access is from the Winston Churchill Avenue entrance.

I took some photos earlier of the Collect staff exhibition being installed at The University of Portsmouth.

Below a taster of BA Illustration student work.

Tags: Design, eldon, SPACE, Students, University of Portsmouth

Love Your Bike Portsmouth – This Sunday

Southsea Skatepark is the venue for the main Love Your Bike Portsmouth event from 10am-5pm. Limited quantities of goodie bags so to avoid being left out get there early.

It’s going to be an action packed day with Ben Wilson showcasing his bikes and welding on site. Death Spray Custom will be airbrushing bikes, Tokyo Fixed Gear have a mini shop, Gocycle will be offering demos of their bike and showcasing special custom editions, RAW Bamboo will be bringing a few of their bikes and the new Fixei range will also be unveiled.

There will be loads of workshops and offers of help with customisation from various people including Portsmouth Creative Movement, Stu Rodda, Ian and Adam Macpherson. Badger Press will be bringing a screen printing set-up so that you can design your own bags etc, The Caravan Gallery will be bringing their own eclectic mix of cycling photographs and Southsea Gallery will be selling artwork including some of the spoke card designs.

Bike Polo and BMX Demos and the winner of the Schools Competition will be announced.

To check out the full list visit – http://www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/contributors

From 4pm head to Albert Road where Ian Parmiter will have an exhibition of Vintage Bikes with DJ Set and have your photograph taken on a penny farthing, ROKii Clothes will be announcing the winner of their bike and then head to Little Johnny Russell’s for free food at 6pm.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Tags: Bicycles, custom, Design, event, Love Your Bike Portsmouth, Skatepark

May Days Arts Trail 2010

The May Days Arts Trail is an annual visual arts open studios event that takes place in artists’ homes, studios and community venues across the Havant Borough between 8-23 May, over three weekends. The 3rd weekend takes place this weekend in Havant, Leigh Park and Waterlooville and includes an open studios event at Making Space. You can visit and talk to artists at work in their studios, find out about upcoming workshops and also buy pieces of work. I’ll also have some studio space for Quiet Corners photos, gift cards and other bits and bobs, hope to see you over the weekend.

You can find out more (plus the other open studios across Havant, Leigh Park and Waterlooville over the weekend) by looking at the event brochure here (PDF).

Tags: Making Space, May Days Arts Trail

Matt Howarth Tees

Southsea designer and part of the ILOVEDUST crew Matt Howarth recently designed some t-shirts for Urban Industry, the images themed on old American workwear. The tees are limited runs of only 50 so get stuck in early and find out more and order online here.

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Love Your Bike Portsmouth Window Display

Gearing up (sorry) for the LYB Bike event on 30/05/10 a selection and taster of bikes can now be seen in Debenhams, Southsea.

Featuring bikes by Ben Wilson, I Love Dust & Tokyo Fixed Gear, Gocycle, Andrew Lang’s ‘Y’ Stand, My Dog Sighs, Ian & Adam MacPherson, LEX, Fark. Backboards by Fark and Carl Downer at Sifer Design for the vinyls.

Full details on the website. Bellamy’s Antique shop on Albert Road is next for a display.

Tags: Bicycles, Love Your Bike, lyb, Portsmouth

Dead Man’s Glory Vintage 1st Birthday Party

Hard to believe it was a year ago Albert Road’s Dead Man’s Glory first opened, time flies by. You can join DMG’s birthday celebrations in-store from 10am to 7pm on Saturday 27th with DJs, giveaways, 15% off all items plus the launch of DMGs own t-shirts. Check the Facebook event and Dead Man’s Glory’s website for full details.

A big Happy Birthday from us at Strong Island.

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MFSouthsea Tees on SALE today

Missed out on the last runs of Morgans Motherfucking Southsea tees then fear not. Dave will be in The Little Johnny Russells this Saturday 12th from 12 till 4pm selling his world famous tees for £20. Available in black and also white in all sizes.

Tags: Dave Morgan, Motherfucking Southsea

LJRs Christmas Indoor Market

Gather round ladies and gents, after continuing success, Little Johnny Russells is hosting its second Christmas Indoor Market. There is a wide range of products such as CDs, Records, Vintage Clothing, Prints, Jewellery on sale from Edgeworld Records, Bored of Southsea, Dress Code, Deluded Clothing, Rokii, Style In The City, top fashion queen Beau Franklin Savage, Parmiters Antiques, artwork by Ramsey Sheriff, Tristan Savage, Paul Gonella, Laura Gracie Woo selling handmade cards and even Southsea’s finest baker Jill Gate.

Opens at Midday, with a wide range of refreshments including a licensed bar (obviously!)

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Urban Spark

Nikki Bruce from Urban Spark gave us a heads up the other day on what Urban Spark are up to at the moment. Based just across the harbour water in Gosport, Urban Spark is a small, local accessories fashion business:

“We would some up our style as intricately cheeky with a vintage sparkle. What makes our company unique is that it glows with its own personality. Thought, care and talent was been weaved through the designs, which can then flutter onto your doorstep as beautifully packaged gifts.

Urban Spark’s mission is to encourage real women to embrace their natural beauty through the striking and individuality of the accessories. There is no time or love for airbrushing here; Rachel, Hardip and Maddie who you can see here violating the height restrictions on the children’s indoor play area are gorgeous and genuine. Which is a fresh but rare combination to see in fashion today.”

Check out their items and find out more at www.UrbanSpark.co.uk.

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University of Portsmouth Fundraising Fashion Show

8th October will see the girls of the BA(hons) Fashion & Textiles enterprise course put on a fashion show feast in order to raise money for their end of year degree show up in London. This event will include many of the delights that can be found on Albert Road, including Bored, Rokii, Deluded, Style and the City, Preview and Dead Man’s Glory to name a few!

This all day event will be held at the University’s Eldon Building, where two catwalk shows will take place. One at 4:30pm and one at 6:30pm. As well as having a catwalk and a cheeky raffle, we shall be having a market stall type setup in the courtyard and in the long corridor where some of the boutiques and many more shall be selling their wares as well as promoting themselves to the freshers, students and local people of Portsmouth.

Tags: Fashion Show, University of Portsmouth

Bored: Shop or Die

Bored are having a huge in-store sale this Saturday (19th) with loads of brands heavily reduced. Check the poster for more details and get down there early.

Tags: Bored, Sale

Dead Man’s Glory

Dead Man’s Glory, the vintage clothing store located opposite Porters on Albert Road, now has a website at deadmansglory.co.uk with loads of photos plus a new eBay store so you can buy online too. If you want to get in touch with Luci you can phone at 02392 822441/07951 237300 or email.

Photo by Craig Atherton.

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Indoor Market – LJRs

More Bank Holiday weekend goodness to keep you busy, Little Johnny Russells is hosting another indoor market on the Monday 31st. So far the stalls involved are Edgeworld Records (Brighton), Dress Code, Dead Mans Glory, ZoZo vintage clothes, Parmiters Antiques and Southsea Gallery plus there will be a load more. The market will be open from 12pm to 5pm and entry is free.

Tags: Indoor Market, Little Johnny Russells

YEAH Magazine: Issue 3 and New Website

Local YEAH Magazine have just released their third issue, based around the theme of retro. The magazine is only £1.95 and available via their new website at www.yeah-magazine.com which has the new issue and previous issues available plus a blog to keep up to date with what those guys are up to. YEAH are always looking for new contributors, writers, models, photographers so hit them up if you think you have something they could be interested in.

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Enterprise Challenge Awards

The Enterprise Challenge Awards are organised by the Portsmouth University’s Centre for Enterprise which provides advice, support and mentoring to enterprising students helping them learn and succeed in entrepreneurship through developing enterprise skills and experience. We missed this previously but back in June the winners were announced and friends of Strong Island The Four Seven Fives and Individual Threads took first place and second place respectively in the arts based awards. Congratulations on your well deserved awards!

To read more about the awards and the other winners check the Portsmouth University website.

Tags: Individual Threads, The Four Seven Fives, University of Portsmouth

On The Rocks

Albert Road is now home to On The Rocks, a new accessories boutique open at number 227 with welcoming décor, friendly atmosphere and that relaxed community spirit Albert Road is famous for. On The Rocks will be hosting an opening party on the 1st July from 7pm with Matt Seeney DJing plus drinks and nibbles, be sure to pass by and show some support.

For more information check the Facebook event.

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Guildhall Fashion Show & RoKii

RoKii have been invited by Portsmouth City Council to take part in a fashion show outside the Guildhall on Friday 26th between 12 and 2pm. Highbury College and their Fashion Students will also be taking part. RoKii will be showcasing their clothes from both new and local designers, students, and established brands.

RoKii are also looking for Male & Female Models, if interested you need to be available on the day between, 10am-2pm. For more information check the Facebook event.

Tags: RoKii, The Guildhall