The Edit
What makes you happy? It is usually experiences, time spent with friends and loved ones, being told you’re great, that results in that intoxicating dopamine rush. But as the 24-hour news cycle seeks to bring us down, climate concerns and political...
Journal
As we reach the climax of our journey through Antwerp’s creative capital, we have dissected its graphic design culture; surveyed the landscape of its independent art scene; and looked into the future through its tech and innovation pioneers....
Journal
You can’t see the wood for the trees. We’re overwhelmed with problems. And the solutions to those problems. Spend too much time on your smartphone? “Download this app to help you spend less time on your smartphone.” Lost connection with your...
Journal
It's inevitable that the city of the future will look a little different to that of today: there may be more green space, vertical gardens, drones, even flying taxis. But what will really make them tick will remain hidden from view. Connectivity,...
Journal
Less than a year after finishing high school, at just 18, Chuck Anderson launched his own creative studio. Three years later and he’d produced the photography and design for Lupe Fiasco's Grammy-nominated album Food & Liquor; the distinctive...
Journal
Receiving a Renaissance humanist education in Antwerp, beginning an apprenticeship with Flemish painter Tobias Verhaeght aged 14, Peter Paul Rubens was one of those great polymaths; the like of who that term should be reserved for. A true master...
Dispatches
In the early hours of Monday 31 August, 1970, Jimi Hendrix took to the stage on a chalk down near the village of Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. That same day, acts such as Leonard Cohen and The Moody Blues had entertained the record-breaking...
Budapest
For first-time visitors, Budapest will astound. It defines grand. All old-European splendour with its humbling monuments kept impeccably pristine. Bisected by the River Danube, Buda and Pest retain distinct essence—Pest its modern heart with the...
Journal
“During my time there, I met people with a global mindset and a local go-make attitude,” explains Luca Ponticelli, having just returned from D.A.T.E. (Discover Antwerp Through Experience)’s birthday edition, which saw the London-based designer...
Dispatches
It’s always the quiet ones, they say. As far as off-the-radar goes, Northumberland is as close as it gets. In every sense. The northernmost county of England, it is tucked right up on the country’s north east, bordering Scotland and the bracing...
Journal
Its style has been aped to such an extent since, that the skyscraper located at 375 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan today looks markedly plain. When it was completed in 1958, though, its less-is-more restraint was radical; a standard-setting...
Portugal
There’s an old quote often attributed, without confirmation, to Leonardo da Vinci: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Now the great Renaissance polymath may not have been a minimalist in the sense of Donald Judd or Yves Klein, but he...
The Edit
What makes you happy? It is usually experiences, time spent with friends and loved ones, being told you’re great, that results in that intoxicating dopamine rush. But as the 24-hour news cycle seeks to bring us down, climate concerns and political...
City Notes
With influences from the South of France, Morocco and Paris, Merci Marcel Orchard Road—the third MM outpost from Antoine Rouland and Marie-Charlotte Ley Rouland—is a contemporary café and bar for 'urban bohemians'; longterm collaborator and...
City Notes
Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Bathhouse—situated in a renovated 1930s soda factory—offers an array of treatments programmed by top industry professionals in a space that pays homage to bathhouses around the world; whilst blending the...
City Notes
Fed up of making dinner plans, the ones where the sole reason is to have that long overdue catch up with friends (food aside of course), only to find yourself in a place you feel the need to either speak in hushed tones or feel the tormented wrath...
Dispatches
While you can likely remember vividly the few time that you spotted a jarring red Ferrari, bright yellow Porsche, or a lime green Lambo whizzing down the road, most luxury cars are in fact not painted in such bold colours. Most cars, luxury or not,...
Dispatches
Having finally knocked the USA off the top spot, China lead the way in the World Design Rankings, a system that provides data to economists and journalists in the art, architecture and design industry. As part of the A’ Design Award &...
Dispatches
We spend a decent portion of our lives in our bedrooms; usually sleeping but often winding down after a tiring day or taking a lazy weekend morning (sometimes afternoon) in bed. Often overlooked for the spaces our guests see more of, we should...
Dispatches
Uniting everybody from the curious to collectors, art is a universal language with centuries of stories to tell; artistic works having existed for practically as long as humankind. Helping people to make more meaningful connections with art,...