I fear 2009 will be a year of more losses and casualties… labels have gone bust, magazines have quietly slipped away and shops are closing down… recently, most notably Shop at Maison Bertaux has got the chop…
Amelia’s Magazine, which I wrote about when I was still a wee baby blogger has come to an end after ten issues… editor Amelia Gregory says in her letter that it was always supposed to be a ten-issue project and that it will still continue as a website… she also mentions debt so I’m thinking that perhaps the magazine took its financial tolls…
Still, I’ll treasure my issues because bounded up like a book and with addictively nice-smelling paper, I go back to them time after time and re-read them, unlike other mags.
Like previous issues, it’s still filled with the mix of new designers…
Like Mark Liu…
Glad they profiled Fred Butler and Vanessa da Silva…
Bath products really need to be potted into an array of egg cups…
Stylish cyclists photographed by Gemma Booth (her online portfolio is fantastic…) and styled by Oxana Korsun…
My favourite editorial is "The Upsetters" by Gerald Jenkins and styled by Harris Elliott… love the eclectic elements of the styling and the colour tones…
They took to Kingsnorth power station in Kent for this part illustration (Laura Quick), part photography shoot (Julia Kennedy).
Colourful grey days…..my favourite sort of grey days…
As usual they let a whole bunch of illustrators take over the pages… like Kate Slater…
…and Nikki Pinder…
They took a trip to India to profile tons of creatives (which gives me more research fodder) too like designers Sudhir & Tapash and artist Manil Gupta…
And finally, they continue their tradition of overly-generous/quirky gifts… a Gossypium fabric bag DIY kit that you cut-up and sew…
Bye for now Amelia… I’ll miss the way you smell…