Vinegar and Brown Paper: ideas etched in glass

Discovered via the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair (on this weekend in Manchester), Andy Poplar of Vinegar and Brown Paper takes a simple idea and executes it well. Etching labels onto glass objects such as inkwells, apothecary bottles, decanters and mirrors, he adds a bit of cheekiness to ordinary things.

"I spend my days working at a desk with a Remington typewriter and a 1940s Bakelite telephone on it. The phone will never ring, the ink on the typewriter ribbon has long faded out — but there they sit — one a stand for my iPhone, the other used for holding paper. New ways of looking at old things — it’s a theme in all my work I guess."

Read more from Andy on the Ernest Journal website.