Ok, so I wanted to tell you a little bit about a brilliant new Australian online magazine called Est. And when I say brilliant, I mean brilliant. Est Magazine received 2.5 million page views within weeks of launching their first issue. Wowee! For those of you who aren’t up to speed with page views and stuff, that is A HOLE LOT OF page views man!

Their second issue was out just last Friday (12th August) and, if your fancy is tickled by my little selection of images, I urge you to take a closer look…

Ummm… wow. My guest posters are seriously putting me to shame. Enter Pip Jamieson – one of the founders of the huuuuuuugely succesful online portfolio site The Loop.You may remember Pip from an interview I did with her in the early days of yellowtrace. By the way, The Loop recently won ‘Best Enterprise’ at the AIMIA Awards (which is a really, really big deal). Congrats guys, and thank you Pip for this incredibly generous and useful post…

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I am super duper excited to tell you about an upcoming launch for a very special not-for-profit publication called COOKBOOK north/south. And let me be make it very clear that this is no ordinary cookbook. Hell NO!

Initiated and facilitated by the clever designers at Wolfgang, Shlomo & Max, COOKBOOK north/south brings together a super creative and eclectic array of Melbourne’s chefs, artists and writers. This gorgeous book was letterpress printed by hand (oh man, you had me at ‘letterpress printed’) with a strictly limited edition of only 500 copies…

Breathless. That’s what a beautiful interior makes me feel. And sometimes even speechless. I know that this is difficult to believe (the speechless part), but it’s true.

I came across a copy of Architectural Digest magazine (Spanish edition) on my colleague’s desk a little while ago and I got distracted from whatever I was doing as I saw quite a few images which made me feel… well, breathless. I ended up adding the magazine to my enormous pile of “things to scan” for a couple of months. Once I finally got around to scanning the pages I liked, it took another couple of months until I did something with those images…