November 2011
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RG Rummage Sale This Weekend!
Rogues Gallery is throwing a holiday sample sale at Space Gallery this weekend. Thrifters be prepared… there will be a rummage sale of odds and ends from our design rooms.Here’s a sneak peak of the special goods…
October 2011
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This Saturday!
Space Gallery is once again hosting our annual sample sale this Saturday. There will be live music, awesome discounts, new merch and if that’s not enough you can also head down to our store on 41 Wharf Street for a special beer tasting sponsored by Harpoon Brewery. Check out the Facebook event page for more info here.
An evening of love songs and a cowboy's strife...
September 2011
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SAMPLE SALE!
Hey All, it’s that time of year again when we pull out tons of overstock, samples, prototypes, and of course hundreds of T-shirts and sell them to you for ridiculously low prices. Join us at SPACE Gallery on Saturday October 8th at 10 a.m. to get your hands on Rogues Gallery merchandise, listen to “music from day’s gone by” played live by Over a Cardboard Sea, then take...
Tonight! In Provincetown....
The infamous Declan Burke performs “A Cowboy Tumble”
Songs from the Old West…
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August 2011
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Rogues Gallery & Green Baby
Rogues Gallery teamed up with UK based company Green Baby to produce a line of eco-conscious t-shirts for the little ones. These t-shirts are all organic, 100% cotton and feature some new and classic RG imagery.
BACK TO SCHOOL
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hang out
Here are a few more photos of the small sur show. Andrew took these, more here. Be sure to check out his blog, long live film.
Quit Mad Stop Surf Side Beach Party!!!
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WatchJoe made this video of the show that we had at 41 Wharf Street last Friday. Thanks to all who came and especially to Bob, Jamie and Randy for playing, we had fun. More pictures to come.
Shaka.
RG meets Quit Mad Stop.
Exclusive run of 13.
Each one custom sewn.
Cha….
For ordering inquiries, email sara@roguesgallery.com
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AREA FOURxROGUES GALLERY
This Saturday at 208 Commercial St. along with the QuitMadStop crew, Area Four will be serving up iced coffee and their homemade (wood-fired) baked goods. Area Four is Michael Krupp and Michael Leviton’s (6 time James Beard nominee) newest culinary adventure and Cambridge Mass’s best spot for your morning coffee/pastry as well as a post work meal and delicious local beer or wine....
Quit Mad Stop Collaboration X!
Rogues is throwing a massive sunset surf party to welcome Quit Mad Stop to the Cape. Partying isn’t the only thing we will be doing. Designers Eric and May will be in store Aug. 20th unveiling the latest Rg/X! swim trunk collaboration among other goodies. You’ll want it all…
Bonus: Featuring Victor Pakpour’s surf videos projection installation. Towering sails...
PROVINCETOWN PORCH SALE
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Friday
This Friday Small Sur (hailing from Baltimore) will play their patient, peaceful campfire tunes live at 41 Wharf Street. If that wasn’t rad enough, Randy Illian (Tin Ceilings) will also play his beautiful basic melodies to accompany his deep slow voice. Come down, drink a cold beverage, and let the good vibes wash over you while soaking up the end of the summer. Free. Band donations...
Watchhere is a video that Rogues Gallery employee Joe Conway made featuring the music of Small Sur.
Tapescapes: Tim Convery
P-Town artist Tim Convery has used RG store facade as a pallet for his ‘Tapescapes’ as an introduction to the new RG P-Town t’s. Limited artist editions are running out fast. Come in and snag one!
For inquiry about Tim’s Tapescape posters exhibited at RG, please email tconvery@timothyconvery.com.
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Bird Eggs
These engravings were made in 1818 by JF Naumann. JF was a second generation ornithologist, and his son followed in his footsteps by completing a 12 volume illustrated natural history of German birds. Found here.
July 2011
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Exclusives!
Mr. Natty T’s are in!
Super exclusive. Super spiffing…these t shirts are so beautifully made; soft fitted. They hit the spot, you’re sure to get lucky wearing one of these.
Place your order at 208@roguesgallery.com
And while you’re at it, make your appointment with the Nattster himself for our Pop-Up Barber Shop this Thursday and Friday…
These chaps LOVE...
Mr. Natty's Famous Gypsy Pop-Up Barber Shop
Ladies and Gents! Sign Up! Sign Up!
The incredible Mr. Natty’s Gypsy Pop-Up Barber Shop is here!
For two days only… mosey on in for a weekend spruce up the Natty way!
Offering the following :
Traditional English Wet Shaves
Mustache Grooming
Hot/Cold Towel Wraps
Consultations
and of course…. a tiny tasting of Tea and Crumpets!
Get your appointments in now...
Wool Wood and Whiskey
New Rogues Gallery employee Joe Conway has a Maine-centric blog called Wool Wood and Whiskey, which he uses to peddle some original and vintage goods. These Northern Lights hats — vintage patch on a poplin snap back braid cap — have proven pretty popular around these parts. Get some face shade in his online store, and be sure to peruse his handpicked selection of locally...
MR. NATTY
Thats right! Now stocking, straight from England, first time U.S. appearance, the impeccable MR. NATTY products for all you Beardies out there! Just look at the Natty allotment!
Cheeky lil’ Beard Elixers…
Shaving oils for that baby’s bottom finish.
Twizzle for those extra mustache twitches…
A few saucy hair products to charm those foxies in the hole!
And...
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Will Barnet at the PMA
In honor of Will Barnet’s 100th birthday the Portland Museum of Art is showing several of his works from their permanent collection. If you go today, the museum is free. If you can’t make it today don’t worry, the show is up through August 14th.
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Systematic Botany
If you find yourself stuck inside on one of these perfect summer days, do the next best thing and get lost in these beautiful plant illustrations from the website Botanicus. Botanicus has been digitizing materials from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library since 1995 and now has hundreds of books and illustrations in their collection.
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Pulled in Portland
Next month (August 11th) SPACE Gallery will be hosting Pulled: A catalogue of Screen Printing an exhibition and book put together by graphic artist/illustrator Mike Perry. This show is going to be awesome! if you are lucky (a member of the PMA or SPACE) you can attend a discussion with Mr. Perry, and get a copy of Pulled that Mike has screen printed directly on!
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Store Exclusive: Kids Shirts!
Skeletons, pirate ships, and sharks. Come on down to 41 Wharf St and pick up the coolest/cutest t-shirt your 2-6 year old could ever want.
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Fold-Out
These images are from Animated Anatomies, a show of anatomical flap-books at Duke University (ending July 17th). These books invite the viewer to participate in a visual autopsy by lifting up successive flaps, each one revealing different anatomical parts. The examples above (except for the black and white one, 17th century) are from the 19th century, the “golden age” of...
June 2011
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Events!
Tomorrow at 41 Wharf St we will be hosting a closing reception for Megan O’Connell’s works on paper from 6-8. Stop by and take in Megan’s delicate engaging works, drink some cold brews, and listen to some sweet jams. Then get in the car and head on down to our Provincetown store for their 4th of July weekend blowout.
Party!
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Lure
Though hooks and lures made of bone have been found in ancient caves going as far back as 2000 B.C., and fishing for sport was advocated by the ancient Greeks and Romans, lures were not mass produced in the U.S. until the early 1900’s in Michigan. Before then, fishing lures were made in small quantity by individual craftsmen. The lures above...
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Travel
Travel posters (1930’s-40’s) from the collection over at LIFE. The artists who made these beautiful posters had a real challenge, create a singular still image to capture the type of experience that these companies are trying to sell. Difficult, but a dream job nonetheless.
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Pins
Vintage Russian pins from the 1940’s-60’s. Found at gb vintage.
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Codex Seraphinianus
The Codex Seraphinianus is a 360 page “visual encyclopedia of an unknown world” written (in it’s own un-deciphered language) and illustrated by Italian architect Luigi Serafini. The book took thirty months to create from 1976-78. It’s as if Ernst Haeckel too much acid, disappeared into the woods and updated Art Forms of Nature. The entire book has...
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Mourning Buckle
Jewels commemorating the dead were widely worn throughout the 17th and 18th century. The design and construction of the buckle varied, corresponding with the economic status of the deceased (those pictured above very likely came from wealthy families, dating from 1698, 1725, and 1728). The buckles nearly always incorporated some of the loved one’s hair in the design, and if the...
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Northeast Historical film
The Northeast Historic Film (NHF) is a “nonprofit dedicated to collecting preserving and sharing northern New England’s moving image heritage.” There are many fasinating and beautiful (fictional and documentary) films in NHF’s collection some of which can be viewed online. Above are stills from Maine Marine Worms (1941) which documents the harvesting of...
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Textiles
These images come from the amazing website VADS, which is an online resource for the visual arts in the UK. The site has over 100,000 images, all free and copyright cleared. If you have an hour to stare at the screen, head over there. Don’t look to long though, because if you do you might realize that that somebody already came up an idea for that project you are...
May 2011
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Memorial Day
The pictures above are not actually from a memorial day celebration, they are from an “americanization” class (in Portland, 1924) that was commonly given in elementary schools through the 50’s, especially in communities with large immigrant populations. Below, memorial day parades: civil war veterans with boy scouts in Portland in 1941, Westbrook 1940, Deer Isle 1940,...
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Vintage Soviet Board Games
Board games from the early years of the socialist government in Soviet Russia, 1921-1937. More here. If you like this kind of thing (I think I mentioned this before) design guru Stephen Heller has a great book out on the branding of the totalitarian state called Iron Fists. He also has a great blog that showcases Mr. Heller’s great eye for all things design.
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Stamps
Designer Karen Horton has been collecting stamps since she was a kid, and now has a huge collection from all over the world. The Israeli stamps above date from the 50’s and 60’s. They serve as beautiful time capsules of design, bearing the marks of their international travels.
this weekend!
Rogues Gallery is traveling down to Boston this weekend for our second Louis Exposure event. Last time we were down in December it was flannels and Christmas stockings on deck, expect lighter summer fair this time around. Louis Exposure is Saturday and Sunday, 60 Northern Ave in Boston, for more info check out their Facebook or their official website.
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Marcus Elieser Bloch
German ichthyologist (the branch of zoology devoted to fish) Marcs Elieser Bloch (1723-1799) sent his son all over Europe to collect as many different fish specimens as he could. In addition to being one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century, he was also a practicing physician. Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische is his 12 volume master work and many parts...
one of one
Brand new RG Marine Bag, silkscreened by hand with some leather detailing on the handles, limited to ONE! Available for online purchase here.
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Manhoru
Nearly all of the over 1700 municipalities in Japan have their own custom designed manhole covers that represent that particular place in one way or another. Just one more example of how the Japanese are superior when it comes to incorporating design into daily life in smart and practical ways. There is a great book documenting hundreds of these designs by Remo Camerota...
April 2011
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Spring Fling