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The windswept seaside resort of Blackpool wears many hats. The Kiss Me Quick variety of saucy postcards. Cowboy Stetsons of the hen party gaggle. Granddad's knotted hanky as he sits cooking in his deckchair. The cheap foreign package holiday has...
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Regular readers will remember that, last month, we introduced the fascinating new arts, culture and music gathering - Nova Festival of Arts and Music - and that, earlier this week, we brought you an exclusive video mix of the festival's key music...
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If you've caught Grayson Perry's All in the Best Possible Taste on Channel 4 over the last two weeks (the third and final instalment will air next Tuesday), you'll have witnessed a fascinating insight into the complexities and contradictions of...
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Wonderful World is the epic third instalment of Gérard Rancinan and Caroline Gaudriault's The Trilogy of the Moderns. The large scale (worth over £1,000,000 we're told) exhibition is now gracing the walls of Londonewcastle's Project Space and is...
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Contemplative, beautiful, utterly absorbing... New York-based artist Frederick McSwain's Cells - shown as part of New York Design Week, at Gallery R’ Pure - is a fascinating marriage of art and design. Recalling a childhood experience - in which...
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A decade spat on by leftists, filled with rancid politics, Thatcher nicking milk from schoolkids. The 1980s. Came in with blistering punk, snorted coke, got rich, drove Porsches, crashed into a wall, throttled the country with poll tax and...
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Don't know about you, but we're starting to get rather excited about a certain little European competition that's kicking off tomorrow. England's expectations may be at an all time low, the Olympics may be causing an unwelcome distraction - but...
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A few weeks back, we interviewed James Lavelle, discussing the recently opened Hong Kong incarnation of his ongoing Daydreaming with... project. The show - that featured the likes of Robert Del Naja, Futura and Kai and Sunny, alongside some of...
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Ex-model turned still life, art and fashion photographer - for the likes of Ralph Lauren, New York Magazine and Stefan Sagmeister - Henry Hargreaves is also behind some personal projects that put the fun back into photography; not least his 3D boobs...
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Powerful, inhumanely detailed and, well, really quite disturbing; Ron Mueck's sculptures are frighteningly real, and utterly fascinating. You literally can't take your eyes off them. Showing recently at Hauser & Wirth's Savile Row gallery, this...
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When is scratchy, jumpy VHS gonna be treated to the same kind of revivalist worship that analogue camera film is? Surely we can't be too far from a video Instagram, where sun-kissed filters are replaced by TV static and shifting interference. For...
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For such a wee place, just eight million inhabitants in a landlocked country that's dwarfed by many other European nations, Switzerland has a hard-hitting global reputation for its graphic design. Like the Scandinavian's reputation for product...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...