Elizabeth Beer & Brian Janusiak formed Various Projects, as a multidisciplinary design collaboration in 2005. Having a retail space is a chance to experiment with - more publicly - some themes that reoccurred in our own work: concerns with distribution, collaboration, sustainability, digression and the creation of fluxuating communities. We have tried to imagine the store to be in part a place for the projects people had no immediate or obvious home for, liking the idea of digression as an intentional (and sometimes necessary) change of subject.