Publications
The rise and rise of indie publishing is a beautiful thing. In many ways—as a rebuttal to the inane online culture of writing for algorithm over reader, as an antidote for the perma-connected generation whose mental health is increasingly at...
Journal
Shantell Martin's art is about connections. The connections that surround us. It is—like us—at once chaotic and uniformed. The New York-based British artist's practice is shaped by a stream-of-consciousness that is creative thinking in its most...
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...
City Notes
Leaving behind careers in advertising and production, Fergus and Sharmin Jackson hotfooted across the pond to San Francisco to indulge in their first love: bread. Specifically the crusty, chewy, slow-fermented, sourdough...
City Notes
As has been the case with Wynwood and the Miami Design District, many of the long-abandoned spaces dotted throughout Miami's urban core have seen regeneration at the hands of savvy developers who have one eye on the strong cultural reputation the...
City Notes
Chotto Matte is drenched in the drama of Miami Beach from the moment you meet a mammoth pivoting door that punctuates a stark white façade. It only gets more impressive. A retractable ceiling sees Herzog & de Meuron's iconic 1111 Lincoln Rd car...
City Notes
Aureli Mora and Omar Ornaque of architecture practice AMOO have transformed an old bar in Barcelona's slow-paced Gràcia, transforming an elongated tube-shaped space—typical of buildings in neighbourhood—into a bright and contemporary locale...
Dispatches
We live in times of unparalleled exposure to brilliant design. It's everywhere. When Jony Ive took Dieter Rams's principles of design mainstream, a whole generation became more in-tune, gained a higher capacity to appreciate great design, demanded...
Dispatches
PUMA have been pushing the boundaries of sports and culture for the last 70 years, collaborations with renowned designers ensuring the brand is seen on athletes the world over. Their latest sneakers channel West Coast USA, the reimagined Cali...
Dispatches
The hip Everly Hollywood—part of Kimpton hotel brand—have embarked on a headline-grabbing collaboration with LA-based artist Colette Miller. Renowned for her Global Angel Wings Project, whereby she paints interactive (and Instagram-ready) street...
Dispatches
Opening this December at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Escher X nendo - Between Two Worlds is an exhibition that presents Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher's iconic works—visual puzzles akin to optical illusions—seamlessly to life...