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World Cup 2014
We dig into football's influence on culture, and the host nation's enduring allure...
Features
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Hotels: Design Without Disburse
Chronicling the rise of the hip hostel, and no-nonsense design-led hotels...
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Rule of Thumb: Hitching Across America
Hitching across the United States, a very different kind of travel guide...
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Miami: America's New Cultural Capital?
We investigate the growing credentials of Miami's art and design scene...
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London Design Festival 2014
The world's most forward-thinking design festival returned for another extravaganza of creativity...
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Pictoplasma 2014
We interview some of the top character design talent at this year's Berlin extravaganza...
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Milan Design Week 2014
Another year reporting from the frontline of the planet's most famous design fair...
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A Siberian Road Trip
Following a route first taken in 1977, we joined Mazda for a leg of their epic Hiroshima to Frankfurt, 15,000km road trip...
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London Design Festival 2013
The most forward-thinking international celebration of design returns for another session...
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Culture and Creativity in South Africa
We explore South Africa's cultural fabric, taking in both Cape Town and Jo'burg...
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Manchester International Festival 2013
Manchester's innovative cultural festival returns for another session of forward-thinking events...
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City Notes
Generator Copenhagen is a culture-forward hub from which to explore one of the world's most incredible cities...
Located in a former residential development with ties to designer Philippe Starck, Generator Copenhagen combines style, energy and affordable hospitality in the heart of the city; the famous Nyhavn waterfront is just steps away. The six-storey...
City Notes
Design museum aesthetics and rich cultural heritage combine at handsome Bergen design hotel, Villa Terminus...
Villa Terminus offers 18 design-led guest rooms on Norway’s dramatic western coast. Perhaps Bergen’s most sophisticated boutique hotel, it’s also local hotel group De Bergenske’s smallest. Not that size matters here. Capturing the...
The Edit
Behind the Headlines: the true urban landscape of cities like Baghdad and Tripoli exposed in absorbing exhibition...
Western governments and their complicit mainstream media have successfully desensitised many to the lives of those who inhabit 'that part of the world'. Cities like Baghdad and Tripoli are bywords for darker concepts, and the realities are...
City Notes
Art House: checking in to the Tokyo design hotel project that gives back to its creative community...
In a city best known for futuristic skylines and slightly anonymous luxurious five-star hotels (Lost in Translation anyone?), it would be fair to say that Tokyo's BnA hotel does things a little differently. For starters: it's tiny, with only two...
Dispatches
Dispatches
Flower Power: How our obsession with flora is transforming the aesthetics of design, art and fashion...
'I don't know. They grow, they bloom, they fade.' Says Antwerp-based florist Mark Colle of his floral friends. 'You can't hold on to them forever . Fashion is like that too in a way—it comes and it goes. They are symbolic for richness, romance....
Dispatches
Brazilians Bicicleta Sem Freio take their eye-popping celebration of riotous colour to the streets of New Delhi...
Not-for-profit organisation St+art India created their first open air public art district in India during December 2014, uniting local and international artists who together brought the empty walls and winding streets of the city and suburbs alive...
Dispatches
Craig & Karl signal changes afoot in British TV's famed former stomping ground with effervescent intervention...
Craig Redman and Karl Maier, the New York- and London-based creative giants who collaborate under their Craig & Karl moniker, know a thing or two about unabashed technicolour splendour; the duo's ocular assaults rioting from the pages of fashion...
Dispatches
Peerless integration and discerning quality control make Adobe Stock an invaluable addition to your creative arsenal...
‘Epic, but modest at the same time … do you know what I mean?’ Naturally, the answer is no, but he’s your boss and the client is due any minute. Welcome to the world of the Hovering Art Director. In a video that forms part of a new global...