Sometimes you come across a product that is so fresh you need to have one no matter what, and Laser Engraved Moleskine Notebooks from EngraveYourBook is most certainly one of those products. For just $5 (plus the price of the notebook itself) you can have your very own custom Moleskine laser engraved with any artwork you see fit to choose, simply prepare and upload images and in 7-10 days your notebook arrives all nice and customised.

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Saturday 5th April saw the opening of Format, one of Newcastle’s newest contemporary art galleries and the launch of their first show Defector. Curated in league with North East based art/music collective The Ghetto Method, the show featured work from some of their flag ship artists including Mr Guy, Creative Ginger and Ben Lawson with a special appearance from Edinburgh resident illustrator Magda Boreysza.

Images from the night after the jump.

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As UK skate-art collective, Xynthetic’s ‘Mini-Art Tour’ pulls into its last stop at the Workshop Store, Bristol, their main man on the cam Jonny ‘Makinov’ Clooney has thrown together this short video outlined the hows, whens and whys of the tour, the artists and Xyn family.

Check it out after the jump.

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Last night saw the opening of PURE EVIL’s ‘Run - The Old World Is Behind You’ show at Electrik Sheep on Pink Lane, Newcastle. As expected the show went down a storm and the work on display was well and truly on point!

Photos from the event after the jump.

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Even though we do our best to keep it strictly British here at Kartel, every now and again something catches our eye that we feel we just need to share. Introducing Carrot Clothing. A brand “…well known in all ex-Yugoslavian countries”, Carrot keeps it simple with some awesome graphic tees designed by the likes of graffiti supremos 123Klan, Flying Fortress and Darlek, and the results are pretty dam good.

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Kartel are currently looking for reguarly writers and contributors to supply articles and features to our online blog/magazine. If you live in the UK and have an interest in UK streetwear, culture, music, design or art and can contirbute regular articles and features, then give us a shout. We’re especially interested to hear from people living in London, Bristol, Brighton, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester!

Email us at editor@kartelinc.co.uk. What you waiting for?

One of the UK’s finest photographers, Fats ‘Fatsarazzi’ Sherrif is to hold his first solo show at the Beyond The Valley gallery on London’s Newbury Street. Entitled ‘I Got You’ the show opens April 15th and will run until the 27th.

For more information about Fats check out www.fatsarazzi.co.uk.