We know Alison Thompson’s interview in Issue 17 touched many of you. This Australia Day, her extraordinary spirit was recognised when she was awarded a MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION for “service to humanitarian aid, particularly the people of the Peraliya region of Sri Lanka following the Boxing Day [...]

Marije Vogelzang’s (Issue 21) book has just won an award in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for ‘Best Designed Cookbook’. We heartily agree. You can see spreads from the book on her newly re-furbed website (worth a gander out in itself) in the books section; ‘Books to chew on’.

Photographs by Dan Wilton
If Issue 21’s still fresh in your minds you might remember Kali Arulpragasam talking about her next Superfertile jewellery collection which she described as, “another quite ironic collection about current affairs; the economy and the recession. It’s about the truth, a sentence like ‘There’s 5o million people without healthcare in America’, but [...]

[Photographs of The Armoury by Marino Thorlacius]
The unstoppable Sruli Recht (Dumbo feather Issue 13) has just opened a store called The Armoury amongst the retrofitted, once-rusting ships and abandoned private fisheries of Reykjavik’s Fishpacking District (in Iceland). The store will showcase Sruli’s incredible clothing, footwear and ‘non-products’ like the Umbuster and Whalet as well as [...]

David de Rothschild (Dumbo feather Issue Five) is about to embark on another amazing adventure, this time “to draw attention to the unbelievable mass of garbage (especially plastic) accumulating in our seas.” David and co are building a catamaran, the hull of which is made out of plastic bottles. It’ll be christened The Plastiki in [...]

Stylist Emilie Smith and Anika Cook from Sneak Design both met in The Nest … and look at what’s hatched! A beautiful collaboration to create a lookbook for Sneak Designs’ latest collection.
We just received this lovely note from Emilie;
“Hey Kate & Thea
Thought you might be interested in seeing the fruits of my first Nest collaboration…
Thank [...]