Journal
Can a festival continue to grow at an exponential rate? Rocketing from under 8,000 visitors to more than 100,000 in the course of a decade, you might think for Barcelona’s Primavera Sound that the answer is firm no. 18 editions in, though, and...
The Edit
The inimitable Mr. Bingo; multidisciplinary surrealist, Emily Forgot; top L.A.- and London-based design studio ManvsMachine; the supremely talented German art director, Mirko Borsche; New York-based visual artist Shantell Martin. Just five of the...
Dispatches
“Inspiration without action is bullshit.” Just five of countless inspirational words American artist/designer/life-coach/motivational-speaker James Victore slung together over the course of his OFFF 2018 talk. They are perhaps his five most...
Publications
The 1990s were a bit mad, weren't they? There seemed a perverse cuddliness to consumerism at the time, but retrospection reveals a stench of malevolence. The Mickey Mouse Club or Marky Mark in his underpants, the soft focus of Dawson's Creek and the...
Journal
As Madrid-based indie rockers, Hinds, prepare to take on Barcelona’s Primavera Sound for the first time, We Heart speaks to co-founder/co-frontwoman Ana Perrote about press and politics; life on the road; Barcelona; and their sophomore album, I...
Journal
OFFF. Barcelona’s creative forum of international repute—the commix of inspiration-craving talent from the global arts and design community. The annual symposium where our very own telluric planet’s most forward-thinking creatives flank the...
Journal
‘Força, equilibri, valor, i seny’. Translating to strength, balance, courage, and common sense, this is the motto of the Castellers. A Catalan tradition of human towers that began as a representation of Christ and the cross some 200 years ago,...
Barcelona
“The installation on the roof of Fundació Antoni Tàpies, an evocative tangle of metal on top of a beautiful modernist building that represents Barcelona’s classic and bourgeois beauty, is emblematic of the city’s creativity.” Nuria Canal,...
The Edit
The xx are the best band on the planet. Their music can seem like it's the only relevant thing in the existence of humanity. Their records can be at once bleak and disconnected; tender and intravenous. You feel every breath from Sim and Croft, every...
Playa del Carmen
There’s an old idiom that runs: paradise is not a place, it is a state of mind. Nobody is disputing the multitude of positive scientific discoveries linked to the study of practicing meditation, and it’s important that we don't chase idealistic...
Fashion
"Our approach is fairly simple," explains Scott Gabrielson, founder of luxury accessories label Oliver Cabell. "To offer handcrafted sneakers using old school shoemaking and the finest materials, and then reveal it all; from factories to costs."...
The Edit
"I’ve invited a few of my old skool graffiti heroes like Mode 2," Us By Night curator Rizon Parein told us recently. "What this guy has done for the graffiti scene you can not imagine, not many artists have had such a big impact on a subculture...
Journal
Anna Keville Joyce is a food stylist, illustrator, and culinary creative director. Her work epitomises energy on a page and screen, and that’s what food is—an essential power source which she brings to life. From comedic sushi emojis...
Journal
XPLR (ex^plore) is a studio conceived by artist and illustrator David Rice. Visualising themes of urban and wild nature through the medium of paint, Rice creates what he describes as "environments that exist beyond the parameters of the physical...
Journal
elbgold—meaning ‘The Gold of Hamburg’—are the first speciality coffee roasters in Hamburg. As well as trading directly with coffee farmers in Honduras, Guatemala, Ethiopia, or India, the team are also café entrepreneurs. The duo's...
Journal
Johannes Riffelmacher and Thomas Kosikowski are founders of Salt & Silver, a food and drink concept that comprises Hamburg's Salt & Silver — Zentrale; adventure, cookery, and photography books Travel, Surf, Cook and Tacos, Tequila, Tattoos;...
Dispatches
As the A’ Design Award & Competition continues to grow, some 1,962 winners from 100 countries across a total of 99 different design disciplines were recognised at a spectacular ceremony on the banks of Italy’s Lake Como earlier this year—it's...
Dispatches
As the UK have revelled in an extended heatwave this year—or can we now just call it a summer?—people have drawn comparisons to the scorcher of 1976 when temperatures tipped 35℃ on on England’s south coast, and although Faversham, Kent,...
Dispatches
From autonomous driving to smart parking, electric vehicle charging to car pooling and bike sharing initiatives, more and more of us are opting to live a considered urban existence; efficiency and convenience with a side of sustainability are no...
Dispatches
Flick through the Instagram feeds of fashion editors, travel influencers, us average Joes … and—amid the selfies, wanderlust, and latest food fads—you’ll be sure to find snippets of mid-century modern design. Having been pretty much on-trend...