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It's that time of year again. Sue Barker gets her white pants on, Pimms sales achieve their yearly spike, Andy Murray is either British or Scottish depending on how he's doing in that particular match, and Serena Williams tries and fails to look...
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Just like the music compilations that inspired the name, Now That's What I Call Photography 2 is a collection of 30 artists' work, but this is a collection to be seen and not heard - no Savage Garden or Nelly Furtado here, but rather a selection of...
The Edit
“Open minded adult intellectuals only” warns the Satanic Mojo Comix exhibition poster, and we should probably apply the same restrictions in telling you about it. Goodness knows what that sort of filter will do to our readership, but we'll take...
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Los Angeles isn't always in the headlines for the right reasons – we certainly don't hear a lot of great things from outside the USA - but flying in the face of negative opinion is this exhibition showing the city's best side and proving that...
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I'll have to forego the conventions of opening with a joke in this article since I only have one typography gag and I used it a couple of months ago. If any of our readers have any others, we'd be pleased to hear them. Anyway, someone who has an...
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Walking through the solo show by Californian artist and illustrator Deth P. Sun is like walking through a 1980s fantasy adventure video game. There are cloud-peaked mountains, mysterious crystals, dimension portals and unwieldy swords, forbidding...
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Where would we be without physics? Ha ha, a little science joke for you there. Yeah OK, science isn't often very funny, but it can be beautiful – just have a gander at the collaborative work of Hackney design studio Haberdashery and photographer...
Journal
Charged with the task of creating scenescapes that defy logic, suspend reality, amaze and perplex; most resort to Photoshop, 3D modelling or some other technological somesuch. When asked to create such a visual scenario for a new Ford advert,...
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Science fiction fans may know the word “frack” as a cheeky way for the writers of the Battlestar Galactica TV series to swear their way around the pre-watershed censoring, but fracking is also a bit of a dirty word in the real-life scientific...
Art & Culture
We're pleased to announce a couple of our favourite creative characters have unveiled a new creative character of their own – Chairman Ting (aka design visionary Carson Ting and business brains Denise Cheung) are back with a design for the Dunny...
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The University of Bath's Centre for Death and Society wouldn't make many people's dream list of places to work, but Dr John Troyer must like it – he's the deputy director. The sociologist grew up with a funeral director father, and as such saw...
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Canadian Angela Bulloch is an artist who likes things lit up, lined up, squared off. Not for her the chaos of her late 1980s contemporaries, but the order of mathematics, the beauty of geometry, and the calculable comfort of frequency. Since...
City Notes
Reopened in the centre of Megève, Hotel Saint-Georges returns as a thoughtfully reimagined alpine retreat with a new visual language and razor-sharp focus. Set within a traditional chalet, the five-star hotel has been reimagined by Paris-based...
City Notes
The Zetter Group is set to deepen its connection to the UK capital with the opening of The Zetter Bloomsbury in March 2026, a 68 bedroom hotel housed across six interconnecting Georgian townhouses moments from Russell Square. Sitting directly...
City Notes
TOKKIA is a new addition to Covent Garden, and Europe’s first luxury Korean matcha house. Founded by Sooji Im — who previously introduced London to Korean tea culture with be-oom in Exmouth Market — the project brings a focused look at Korean...
City Notes
Bunkhouse Hotels expands its Houston presence with the opening of Hotel Daphne, a 49 room refuge in the historic Houston Heights. Following the success of the exquisite Hotel Saint Augustine in Montrose, the Austin-based brand continues its mission...
Dispatches
We don’t often feature residential projects, but for Cielo we're making an exception. Located in the heart of Nagpur, Maharashtra, Sanjay Puri Architects' almighty Cielo rises as a compact, climate-conscious building. Designed on a modest 900...
Dispatches
Creative work and predictable income feel like they're supposed to be opposites. Artists, photographers, designers, writers, musicians built their practices around the work itself, not around revenue systems and operational infrastructure. Then...
Dispatches
This is it. The final call. The door is almost shut on the 2025—2026 edition of the A’ Design Awards & Competition, and if your work is sitting on a hard drive waiting for the right moment, this is that moment. With submissions closing on 28...
Dispatches
Inspiration seldom arrives empty-handed. As ideas clarify, books, samples, tools, notes, and references accumulate, and the pile may begin competing for space and attention. What started as inspirational fuel becomes visual noise—debris in the...