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  • Lighting up your day

    Lighting up your day

    For anyone who is a regular to designist you will probably be familiar with the smart booklights, firm favourites here. We love to see peoples reactions when they open one for the first time - they never fail to wow  Made by...

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  • Leuchtturm 2021

    Leuchtturm 2021

    We've been stocking Leuchtturm since 2014 and always get a bit giddy when their new catalogue lands. While making some of the best quality notebooks around (numbered pages, pocket at the back, multiple page markers, thread sewn so they lay...

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  • shopping local this summer

    shopping local this summer

    Now the sun is streaming in through the window, it feels a bit like summer again! Hopefully it will stay out just long enough for us all the dry out a little bit 😂🤣🌦Happy Tuesday everyone, we are back open...

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  • a designist exclusive chosen by you

    a designist exclusive chosen by you

    Will we be buying school uniforms or more wine this autumn? Who knows. Maybe both.Whether you will be filling it with cucumber water or a cheeky Chablis , why not do it in style with these glass and wood carafes...

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  • Meet Tom Duffy of Duffy Bookbinders

    Meet Tom Duffy of Duffy Bookbinders

    Monday Meet the Maker: Tommy Duffy from Duffy Bookbinders.Now in our fourth generation within the trade, and with over 100 years of bookbinding experience, bookbinding has firmly been a family tradition. Starting with my great grandfather, Paddy, who had his original...

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  • paying it forward

    paying it forward

    One of my fav. things about humans is our ability to pull together in tough times.  In an effort to help independent business all over Ireland, Small + Local was created. It has a lovely interactive map and the list of businesses...

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