Upgrade those nasty plastic bags of yours! Curated by Process Packaging, the Re-Bag Exhibition is a collection of limited edition reusable canvas bags designed by 15 of the UK’s leading design talents.

Designers were asked to create a design centered on the theme of sustainability and reusability. The resulting bags are produced in limited edition batches of 250, and are available to buy. So dump those environmentally damaging plastic carrier bags and pick yourself up a stylish eco-friendly alternative.

Find out more at Re-Bag.

Catwalk Fashion. Now available in wallpaper. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is best known in fashion circles for his graphic heavy clothes collections. His coloured pop-art style patterns in the past have referenced Mikey Mouse, Princess Diana, Union Jacks and Jimi Hendrix. Now he’s bringing that style to the world of interiors with a collaboration with the wallpaper company Letuce. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s wallpaper debut features Zebras and the Eiffel Tower, supermarket receipts, Manga cartoons and the Taj Mahal.

They’re going to be priced at roughly £18/€25 per 10m roll, so call 00 33 1 55 34 10 10 for stockists if you’re interested.

Challange to the concept of jewelry, or a porkchop in a bag? I’m not going to get all deep on you, so I’ll just say that Ted Noten is crazy. But good crazy, not ‘eating spiders and mumbling absurdities’ crazy. His jewelry designs consist of porkchops, golden bullets, cocaine, starlings, broken coffee cups and a whole heap of other bizarre objects.

Just go and check it out for yourself at TedNoten.com

Art & Underwear. Although we’re used to the use of homo-erotic photography being used to flog underwear to the greater public, Bulge are doing it with a twist. For €99 you can buy a package consisting of a signed, numbered & framed photographic print of a subject wearing an item of Bulge underwear, and also the item of bulgewear featured in your print for yourself in your size.

So if you’re into artwork of men in their pants, and you happen to be in the market for a new pair of y-fronts, you better get yourself over to Bulge.

“You so Haole, you dont even know you haole.” I get emails from people who run t-shirt companies on a daily basis. It seems like every man and his dog wants to be the owner of a hip designer t-shirt company, and most of the time they’re just carbon copies of each other. It’s the same played-out vector graphics style designs time and time again, and I’m bored of it!

So it was a breath of fresh air to get an email from TheRyde.com. It’s almost like they’ve been going through my garbage to find out my likes and dislikes in order to design my ultimate t-shirt. They’ve got the hand-drawn type I’m a fan of, and a simple black and white colour scheme, but ultimately they’ve based it around my guiltiest pleasure, and that’s the greatest movie ever known to mankind, the 80’s surf film North Shore. Unless you were a surfer growing up in the 80’s you probably wont appreciate the North Shore T-Shirt, but for those who did, it’s probably the best t-shirt ever created (and as an added bonus for those people, check out the North Shore Soundboard!)

Even if you don’t appreciate the North Shore T-Shirt, there are many other great laid-back designs to choose from at TheRyde.com, so go and check it out.

Like a supermarket special offer, only infinitely cooler. Back in March I posted about the designer espadrilles over at The String Republic. It seems they’re now available to buy, and there is even a ‘buy two pairs, get third free’ offer this month.

So I suggest everyone pile over to The String Republic right now to take advantage of the offer before all the best styles are gone (many of my personal faves have already sold out!)

Get your espadrille fix now, before the summer is over, at The String Republic.

Beware the “hoodies”. In the UK, a sub-culture of underclass youths have been given the name of “hoodies” thanks to their penchant for wearing hooded garments. It seems the hooded tops these youths wear are scaring the middle-classes. But what the middle-classes have yet to experience is the gangs of youths creeping around inner-city shopping centres dressed like scary clowns thanks to the hand-printed clothing of Headhoods.

In a bustling factory in Brooklyn, New York each and every hood is meticulously hand-printed and one-of-a-kind. Check out their MySpace page to see some photos and keep up to date.

Visit the official Headhoods website.

Get some new feet. I’m not really a fan of the hipster-vans-style shoes, but the Loker Model from Fallen Footwear might turn me.

Revenge of the Espadrilles. Last summer The String Republic launched a range of espadrilles covered in fantastic designs. When they were first released, I tried telling everyone that they were cool, but no one would believe me. But, it looks like I’m going to get another chance this summer, judging by the The String Republic Teaser!

A year on, is the world now ready for “The Summer of the Espadrille”?

Keep your eyes on The String Republic.

One for the sneaker freaks! If you love customised sneakers, or you just like creative stuff, check out the latest submissions at customsnkr.com It’s amazing to see the amount of work that people put into making their footware unique and personalised.

More at customsnkr.com