Mr Bucket will be part of the Infuse 2010 Conference held this weekend for VisCom teachers who are members of the Visual Communication Victoria Association.
Mr Bucket will be running several workshops on Saturday … “I feel honoured to be part of this, the teachers support and inspire students who through their talent and imagination will visually change the world - they will communicate their generations vision for the future.”
We look forward to saying hello to as many people as we can.
A few months ago it was a pretty typical day at Rose Street for Mr Bucket, apart from everyone looking ever so slightly more beautiful, there was a weird sense of anticipation in the air as the sound of fiddles mingled with the smell of coffee and the market did its usual trick of springing to life. All of sudden their was a TV presenter and a camera, Mr Bucket sprang to life and grabbed his 15 seconds of fame with both hands. The footage was screened on Saturday June 12th - Channel 7’s “Coxy’s Big Break” travel show. Many thanks to Christian and Adam Ferrante for providing and nurturing such a truly unique hub of creativity and design in Fitzroy’s Rose Street Market. (MrB is usually there on a Saturday).
As Ostin Milbarge a columnist from “Desktop” magazine tells it, he was simply strolling through a small town music festival when…
“while perusing through the stalls, and peering past a hat stand, that I saw him: Mr Bucket. I think I’ve banged on before about simplicity of design and, possibly somewhere in the ether, I’ve also delivered a diatribe on the joy I take in t-shirt design… but this knocked my socks off. And it did so for a
couple of reasons. First, Mr Bucket’s stall featured a full-length statue of the man himself, bucket and all, while one of his minions manned the merchandise aspect. Second, the idea that the entire life of a man
with a bucket on his head can be created to support a clothing range is beyond belief – that its simplicity had me so engrossed that I looked through just about every shirt available, agonised over which one I wanted, then purchased it greedily goes to show the power of a simple idea.”
but it didn’t stop there…
“I found that I’m not alone, and I’ve often been stopped in the street by people professing that they too
have fallen for Mr Bucket. Before long I was harassed by a friend to look up the website, where I witnessed that the bucket man was an international phenomenom.”
Ostin point out he wasn’t paid in lights and pyschedelia, we hope he is enjoying his “Mr Bucket Mows”.
Mr Bucket’s personal minder David Marsh will be an industry speaker during the Top Designs VCE student forum at Melbourne Museum. We will be discussing all things tshirt and bucket. Visit the Top Designs exhibition.
Armani, Ralph Lauren, Mr Bucket… High fashion has welcomed a new name to the world of high quality menswear. Don’t worry Mr Bucket hasn’t gone vogue, but he did feature in the 2009/10 summer issue of Men’s Style Australia. They featured Mr Bucket in an article which interviewed designers whose tees “won’t send people running in the wrong direction”. Link to full article.
Meanwhile Mr Bucket was featured on Saturday 27th Feb in the “I Designed it Myself” column which runs regularly in the A2 section of the Age. Link to Full Article
Love is in the air - Who is this mysterious new woman in Mr Bucket’s life. Mr and Ms Bucket will be at the Port Fairy Folk Festival on the labour day weekend (March 6th-9th). A romantic getaway or just a chance to make beautiful music together. She has arrived stylish, independent and spirited and will feature in her own range of tshirts both with and without Mr B. The design is on a black scoop neck tailored womens tshirt in all sizes.
Update: Thankyou to everyone that brought a tshirt and came to support Mr Bucket on what was a wonderfully fun and enjoyable weekend. Mr Bucket quite spontaneously got out and had a boogie to Ganga Gigi on Saturday night, we’d love a photo of that if you happened to take one.
Mr Bucket has recently moved into the bucket cave, deep in the bowels of the rabbit warren that is Fundere Studios. Located in Melbourne’s inner-west, Fundere is a hub of artist studios, attached to a commercial foundry which specialises in mould making and bronze casting for sculptors.
We are now fulltime bucketing. The roller-coaster ride will continue with exciting things happening all the time, so thankyou to all the family, friends and customers who continue to support and share my bucket dreams.
Mr Bucket is proud to be included in a recent publication by Slattery Media titled Handmade Melbourne, featuring over 200 artisans creating beautiful things from raw or common materials all over Melbourne.
Mr Bucket tshirt are not only sourced locally, they are screenprinted in the designers own studio, and then individually packaged. This has been an important part of the process, it allows us to trial new ideas and styles.
The difference between buying something handmade and a mass produced good can sometimes seem a bit intangible. What you are really buying is the story behind the object, supporting your local artist and hopefully getting a warm fuzzy feeling from doing that - because, it is good.
Mr Bucket was welcomed by the Daylesford community during the weekend (July 18th), in particular the friendly folk at Red Star Cafe and Magali and Jason from the Wolf at the Door gallery and retail space - let me tell you this place is funky funky funky!!
So after you’ve taken in the country air and had your spa, get down to the gallery and take in some wonderfully eclectic artwork, jewellery and sculptures.
Melbourne L’Oreal Fashion Week is coming to the Rose Street Market to set up a runway to model the stallholders’ fashions. With real emaciated models and everything. Mr Bucket will make an appearance and strut his stuff around 2.30pm. The atmosphere at the market is always friendly and inspiring and you are all welcome to come down and lend your support, pick up some bargains from the amazing array of jewellery, clothing and accessories.
posted 5th April
To everyone who helped make the day so successful and fun, thankyou. Particularly Praveen and Rhinehardt the models and my fashion crew - Cecily, Rayemonde, Jo and Kamala. The fashion world are still reminiscing on the success of the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, most of them blissfully unaware that the real action wasn’t on the Paris Runway or at the Designer Awards but at the Rose Street market where Mr Bucket strutted his stuff…
Mr Bucket will be part of the Infuse 2010 Conference held this weekend for VisCom teachers who are members of the Visual Communication Victoria Association.
Mr Bucket’s personal minder David Marsh will be an industry speaker during the Top Designs VCE student forum at Melbourne Museum. We will be discussing all things tshirt and bucket. Visit the Top Designs exhibition.
Mr Bucket was welcomed by the Daylesford community during the weekend (July 18th), in particular the friendly folk at Red Star Cafe and Magali and Jason from the Wolf at the Door gallery and retail space - let me tell you this place is funky funky funky!!