Over the last few years, as heritage brands have been rediscovered by a new generation of customers, especially young men, labels once seen as relics of American work wear now have an unexpected cool factor, stocked by stylish boutiques and obsessed about on fashion blogs.
Even the names of the Miners' Track and Pyg Track refer to these haunted relics of a working past.
People are publishing books on their own because they choose to--because they see opportunities in the market and want a bigger share of the pie than publishers offer; because they want full control of their book; for some, because they just want a relic of their work to share with friends and family.
Liao is known for a 2012 project called Consumption, in which he displayed a uniform, employment papers, and an iPad as relics of time spent working at an iPad factory in China—his work is all about collecting artifacts.
The "work martyr" complex needs to go the way of the Dictaphone, the typewriter and green eyeshades as relics of the workplace of the past.
Relics, the biggest ever show of work by Damien Hirst, has just been unveiled in the tiny, energy-rich state of Qatar, in the Persian Gulf.
Arkansas recently added 10 towers to the historic register, all of them relics of the Depression-era Work Projects Administration.
MONTREAL — AFTER almost 20 years as a working book critic, I've come to accept that my line of work is basically a relic of another age.
Powell contributed chapters on the binding to the two major works covering the book, the first being The Relics of St Cuthbert in 1956, a large work with chapters on Cuthbert's coffin and each of the objects recovered from it.
Many look for historical relics of the early space age, working from publicly available orbital information.
