You don’t have to be a fervent follower of fashion to know that what left the trend stakes a while ago, will surely come back. Here at bloompapers we love seeing tastes from long ago coming back into fashion, particularly when it’s small scale and not massed produced. We’ve discovered a small company in East ...
Quirky new inventions
One of the main hurdles between creating a new product to getting it on sale and available to millions of people is, in our opinion, your audience. Who is willing to take the time to try, test and give feedback on a product or design which you have spent months, even years, developing? Any budding ...
A magical new designer: Markus Johansson!
We’ve stumbled across a magical new designer to share with you! Markus Johansson is a young and innovative designer from Sweden whose creations are some of the coolest and most sought after we’ve seen in a while! We especially love his domino table which doubles as a coffee table and his chairs truly break all ...
IguapopGallery: fashion shop&art gallery!
We are very lucky living in Barcelona with a wealth of art and design inspiration on our doorstep and we love it when we come across new exhibitions, particularly when it’s something just that little bit different! Iguapop is a gallery which opened in2003 inthe Gothic quarter of the city and since then it has ...
Some very unlickable news…
It’s a sad day in the bloompapers.com office. Peter Ostrum, the actor who played Charlie Bucket in the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film, has revealed that the ‘Lickable Wallpaper’ featured in the classic children’s film did, in fact, taste of wallpaper. It comes as a crushing blow not only to the 30-something generation ...