words and images by Jessica Piper

This week was all about independence – thanks to kind people at Lets be Brief we hosted some of our best sellers in their one week wonder Pop up Island – The State of Independence. Packed out with independent thinkers and doers of all kinds we sat alongside some of our nearest and dearest including Southcoast local Hairy Hands and his mixtape series – which are needless to say impeccably produced!

If you didn’t manage to catch it we put in a bit for everyone, with wiggly arms in abundance and even though it was sweltering – the odd sweatshirt and a selection of our crew necks.

This week we also saw our friends at Two Times Elliott put together their exhibition ‘Twenty Two’ with every kind of graphically designed ‘2’ you could possibly imagine; all hand printed and with proceeds going to Cancer Research it was jam packed with witty interpretations and giant number twos.

In other news we found this ‘chair’ at the V&A that makes you feel sea sick in all the right ways and this guy showing all of us that you should never let city living get in the way of a well crafted tan.