There’s a fine line between hearty and heart failure. Airside’s local burger joint has a triple-stacked patty with cheese and bacon (we call it the Heartbreaker) that really pushes it. It gives us vertigo just looking at it.

Add those over-sized onion rings and thick-cut chips and you really are in cardiac arrest country. Still, it is a tasty burger, though many more of these for lunch and we’ll be taking an earlier-than-planned trip to that great design gig in the sky.

OK, so we’ve all gotten into bed with someone we really shouldn’t have at some point in our lives. But the crucial difference between our drunken dalliances and the barely believable ConLib coalition, is that the people of the UK hadn’t put their faith in us to simply have a few quiet pints and go home alone.

For LibDem supporters, the election outcome is like seeing your partner shack up with your worst enemy, and then assure you that it’s all for the best because they’re going to sort out a way for you to hook up with loads of other people instead. Hmmm, this analogy is losing its way a bit, so let’s move on.

Mangled metaphors aside, the point is that some Airsiders are jolly annoyed that their support for Nick Clegg and his party has put the man with the moon-face in the master bedroom at 10 Downing Street. And when we get angry, we design t-shirts.

These are a few of our efforts to express our exasperation at recent events. As Airside Shop is still undergoing renovation, it is unlikely we’ll actually make these t-shirts, but we thought we’d share them with you anyways.

Airside’s woolly wonders the Stitches are the cover stars of a new book from London designers FL@33.

Made & Sold explores how artists, designers and illustrators have become ever more entrepreneurial and are producing their own graphic products for sale via the internet. The book showcases more than 500 of these products by over 90 practitioners from around the world.

The Stitches – available to adopt via Airside Shop – are a prime example of this trend and as well as gracing the cover, they feature on a double-page spread inside. The book also features products from the likes of Anthony Burrill, Jon Burgerman, Rinzen and James Joyce.

Made & Sold is available to buy online now.

Check out the website for a full list of stockists.

It’s been a while since we’ve had news from Stitch parents, but thanks to the Hill family, we do now.

Nice to see their woolly lot partaking in the festive activities, even if Sherry is not a Stitch’s best friend…

Visit the Stitch blog for a full posting. Visit Airside Shop to adopt a Stitch.

 

The glorious 80s…

This morning on the bus, my iPod offered me up several suitable selections to write about, but the one that most tickled my fancy was Sex Dwarf by Soft Cell. Have you listened to it recently, or ever?? The lyrics are brilliant, Marc Almond is tres drole. Surely a contender for an It’s Pop It’s Art print….