Blog: Grain & Gram

by Chris on 09 May 2011

http://grainandgram.com/

The New Gentlemen's Journal

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Pros

The New Gentleman’s Journal is how Grain&Gram best describe what this site is about. Think of jobs that your Dad or Granddad might have done many years ago, like working as a blacksmith, carpenter, craftsman, tailor or printmaker.

Grain&Gram is essentially a magazine that delivers a rare insight into the lives of a select few chaps who make a living with skills passed on through generations. Each ‘dusty gent’ has a feature length interview, some bloody nice photographs of themselves looking proper and working in a shed/studio of some kind way out in a blazing hot forest somewhere in the USA.

This really is a beautiful site, with a very simple and clean colour palette, great little touches with icons and type, and overall great content that has all been thought out to really capture the scene of each gent.

It is a great read if nothing else, as most of us (webgun included) are involved in the online workplace, whether it be web, media or digital, it’s just refreshing to take a peek at what some other guys are up to on the other side of the pond. 

Cons

It’s all good until you get to the videos…they are a bit creepy, over-styled and somehow seems like American Apparel and Apple Mac are behind them, it looks too cool!

We would rather see some real-time videos with the guys taking us through what they do and some tips on how they do it.

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