Notts Secret – Lee Rosy’s Tea

Within the creative streets of Hockley lies an absolute independent delight – Lee Rosy’s Tea Room. From Earl Grey to Darjeeling or White Monkey, the café offers over 100 different types of teas. Coffee, cold drinks and snacks are also available to be enjoyed.

What Designer Forum particularly loves about Lee Rosy’s is the selection of creative newspapers and magazines that are free to be enjoyed whilst having refreshments. What’s more, the tea room also hosts creatively afflicted events. It is definitely a must visit retreat of Nottingham.

Have you tried any of their fabulous teas?

Words and Pictures by Alice Bodkin

Print Media’s New Wave

 

Adoringly embracing a smooth and crisply printed book or magazine is one of the greatest pleasures in life. The smell of newness and exclusivity excites and opens the window to inspiration.  Romance transpires. And the love affair is set to continue according to Stylus, the innovation research and advisory agency.

 

This new wave offers a contradictory perspective to the internet discouraging print. Newsstands are becoming more prominent than ever with the rise of independent and niche magazines – publications that colourfully decorate their designated spaces. Though print magazines are unable to offer the immediacy that comes with online content, they are able to establish innovation. This is accomplished via the focus of the magazines, the subjects they explore and their design formats that allow transform them from a throwaway monthly to a coffee-table objet that is revisited time and time again.

 

Print magazines are now becoming incredibly influential. The publication Offscreen demonstrates how print remains relevant within the ever increasingly digital era we live in. However, due to this increase, it is becoming absolutely vital that magazines need to stimulate desire as part of an aspirational lifestyle. Thus, magazines are becoming keepsakes, items of worth. They appeal to our desire for tactility with mixture of paper surface and weight and innovative dust jackets. Magazines like So It Goes are entering the realm of being coveted, promoting themselves from their former commodity status. And like anything that is exclusive and sought after, the price and value of that item increases. Consequently print magazines are entering a world of boutique collectivism.

 

From art to travel, from fashion to film and music, print magazines are crossing the boundaries in terms of disciplines that they cover. Currently, hybrid food magazines such as Cereal and Hole&Corner appear to be the most favourable. By combining a wealth of areas in their coverage, print publications are proving to remain relevant today.

Designer Forum is proud to offer select print based publications as a part of their extensive trend library. With print magazines on the rise, it is most certainly worth a visit.

Words by Alice Bodkin

Notts Secrets – The Coffee House, Hurts Yard

 

 

 

Tucked up in a hidden alley and out of the sight of the usual everyday happenings within Market Square, this coffee house is an absolute hidden treasure. There is something magical about this place. You embark upon a little wonder up the alleyway and are greeted with its bright and inviting red appearance, fairy lighted interiors and leather lounging sofas. This independent coffee house offers an exclusive coffee experience.

 

So how do you pursue this secret? If one strolls up Angel Row from Market Square, look out for The Coffee House billboard. It is adjacent to Hurts Yard Alleyway. Embark upon a little travel up this route and you will be greeted with The Coffee House. Designer Forum loves their cakes. Have you found our Nottingham secret?

Words by Alice Bodkin