Making leather goods by hand

Tanner Bates sells leather bags, journals, belts and accessories – handmade onsite in the workshop.  John Hagger’s successful business expanded into tuition to the point where it became it’s own entity, Leather School.  The two sit happily side by side.  Leather School offers courses, classes and make-your-own-belt kits, with the tagline “Be the Maker”.  The […]

Aging gracefully

New Lion Brewery have a tradition going.  On their first birthday, they brewed a Russian Imperial Stout, laying down a limited quantity of bottles in their cellars.  These came to light on their second anniversary to be joined by a new batch of birthday-brewed, Belgian-style Quadrupel, which, again, will be aged amid the dust of […]

Toasting the Pandit

Ravi Shankar visited Dartington Hall in 1936.  He said “I felt that I was coming close to music and that this music was what I wanted to devote my life to”.  A limited edition batch of New Lion Brewery’s Pandit IPA was bottled especially for the 2016 Sea Change festival.  No doubt music and beer […]

Celebrating British Sea Power

British Sea Power played at the first ever Sea Change festival in Totnes this summer.  To get into the spirit, this special beer label brought a piece of local nautical history to life.  Between 1940 and 1945, Totnes created a 600-person shipbuilding industry from the ground up, transforming the town’s rubbish dump in the process. […]

Brewing up a new local economy

A group of beer lovers have revived a brewery that was one of the largest businesses in Totnes, Devon.  Since 2013, the New Lion Brewery has created a demand for its Pandit IPA (No. 17 in Britains hottest 100 beers, 2015) – boosting the local economy – and supports local entrepreneurial businesses with its ‘Community […]

Telling it like it is

I enjoy making complicated things understandable.  Artist’s paint colours aren’t that hard to distinguish, granted, but I liked the idea that the tubes’ labels would show what was inside, in one graphic squeeze of colour.  So we created a line of acrylic paint for The Art Store that did just that… along with an entire […]