Glitter Records Reveals Electrifying New Tote Bag Designs from No.7 Print House
Words by Cosmic Staff
Graphic by No. 7 Printhouse
Glitter Records has released a new tote bag made with No.7 Print House, a small run screen‑printing studio in Brisbane. The studio is run by designer and printer Matthew Deasy, who has worked on album covers, gig posters, and short print runs for local artists and record labels. His work includes projects with John Russell of 4000 Records, such as the dream‑pop and shoegaze compilation Gazed and Bemused.
Matt also has a long‑standing connection with community radio station 4ZZZ, a cornerstone of Brisbane’s independent music culture since 1975. Most recently, he produced a special limited run of posters for the station’s 50th anniversary.
The new tote bag grew naturally from this earlier design work, which revealed a shared interest in physical culture and careful, hand‑made craft.
A Tote Bag That Carries Brisbane’s Analogue Past
Tote bags are at the core of a record store’s identity. Deasy’s style draws on the look and feel of record stores before the internet. In those years, shops used hand‑written prices, small notes, and phone numbers on tags — marks that showed where a record had been and who had handled it. Many of these small signs still appear on the covers of second‑hand records and CDs today. The analogue culture of Brisbane’s past — a world of turntables, record stores, and battery‑powered cassette players — shapes the way Deasy thinks about his design work with No.7 Print House.
Limited‑edition canvas tote in teal, photographed by Matthew Deasy in February 2026.
About No.7 Print House
The studio specializes in bespoke screen printing across formats. Matt makes fine‑art illustrated prints on cardstock, record covers, cassette tapes, posters, T‑shirts, tote bags, and other textiles. He experiments readily with finishes and textures — puff inks, marbling, metallics, neons — and works comfortably across both small and large runs. That hands‑on, exploratory approach is central to how he builds meaning into simple objects.
The new Glitter Records x No.7 Print House tote bags are printed by hand on strong cotton. The stitching is reinforced so the bags can carry vinyl records and daily items. The design is simple and clear, with two color options, Electric Teal and Pink. Only 25 bags in each color were made.
Limited‑edition canvas tote in teal, photographed by Matthew Deasy in February 2026.
Glitter Records on Working With No.7 Print House
“Matt is very thoughtful,” says Riley Fitzgerald, owner of Glitter Records, “He studies small details and tests fonts. Revisits earlier ideas to see what still holds. He thinks like someone from the analogue era, asking what will actually pop on a physical bag, poster, or LP cover, not just a screen. With Matt’s designs, you can see him exploring. He often takes several different runs at an idea, circles back, tests variations, and follows the thread until it lands. It’s a process very much his own.
“You can look at Matt’s work digitally, sure. But it really comes alive when you get hands‑on. When you hold it and see sunlight hit it for the first time. As a record store owner, those are the details I care about. They’re the ones that often get lost unless we find ways to keep them in focus.”
The vinyl album cover of Surfgazing, a recent Brisbane release by The Double Happiness, is another example of Matt Deasy and No. 7 Print House’s work.
A Designer Working in an Analogue Lineage Nods to Brisbane’s Record Store Past
“Even the small circular address print on the back of the bag came from Matt,” Riley continues. “One of my younger staff, Minsun, had also raised a similar idea earlier. In early discussions after our first tote with Stash World, we wanted to figure out where the shop’s visual identity should go next. So it surprised me to see Matt arrive at it independently. His version felt like a quiet nod to the old record bags that once mapped a shop’s place in the city.
“I’ve worked with traditional signwriter Liane Barker of Barker Signs on our hand‑painted logo, window and a-frame signs. Matt feels like a natural extension of that lineage. That sensitivity to history and material is what aligns so naturally with how I see Glitter Records, itself a place built on memory, learning, and the connection that physical music makes possible.”
A Small Object with Cultural Weight
This tote bag marks a moment in Brisbane’s ongoing story of independent music and printmaking. It is a simple item, but it carries the history of two local studios and the long life of physical music culture in Australia.
A selection of the bags will also be available through the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Gallery Store, and they will feature in A 4ZZZ subscriber giveaway this March.
Click here to order the bag in teal and here for pink.
