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The nine-to-five cubicle office workplace is a relic, clinging onto society like a Brexit uncle who just won’t go away. The rise of creative companies, Silicon Valley influence, the coworking phenomenon … if an office space doesn’t share...
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Al Freeman's summer exhibition at Forty Five Ten's Dallas boutique is a tongue-in-cheek show that turns common objects such as razors, cigarettes, toilet seat covers and lava lamps into mammoth deflating synthetic leather pillows. Located...
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What did domestic cats do before the internet? LOLCats to I Can Has Cheezburger?, dogs—traditionally our favoured house pet—never found the same fame online as their feline foes. A 2010 research found that some 42% of Americans identified as...
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And just like that, the 2019 edition of the A’ Design Award and Competition has drawn to a close. The competition—the world's largest of its kind—recognises the best designers, architects, and design-oriented companies globally; a jury made up...
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‘God's own country’ is famous for many things, most deservedly so for the humbling countryside from which it derives that nickname. The Yorkshire Dales, which can’t be said without hearing that most joyful of British accents; the bracing North...
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Since 2010 the Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) has, through sheer determination, attracted some of the globe's very best creatives, becoming what is now 'the' largest student design competition in the...
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Social media has seen a kind of global homogenisation of experience in which the new and exciting rapidly becomes the ‘been there, done that’; it is harder than ever to discover travel experiences that beguile, experiences that stay with you...
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Stretching out to the country’s farthest tip, Cornwall is a county of inspired beauty. Surrounded by some of Britain’s most alluring waters, it is a region rich in maritime heritage, but enjoys all that brings to this day; namely jaw-dropping...
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In rural areas of Morocco, up to 83% of women are still illiterate. And despite the government’s support of education policy and women’s rights, still more than half the country. They’re depressing figures, but one charity is doing incredible...
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“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour,” so wrote William Cowper in his 1785 poem, The Task, thus giving way to a phrase that would affix itself firmly to the modern lexicon. Of course he was wrong, for spontaneity is...
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It may have only been operational for 14 years—transitioning between Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin—but 100 years since it opened, the impact of The Bauhaus resonates as strongly as ever. The enduring influence of the teachings that shaped modernism...
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“Children have the knowledge but not the power to use the computer,” says Abdulazeez Henry Musa, author of Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century - The Rebirth of Armageddon. “As parents, you have to monitor what they do on the computer,...
City Notes
Located high above the Atlantic Ocean, close to the cliffs of Portugal's Azenhas do Mar—a seaside town with whitewashed cottages and beachfront restaurants—Casa das Arribas welcomes guests looking for serviced holiday apartments combined with...
City Notes
Occupying four distinct fifth-floor storefronts over a total of 16,000 square feet at mega-money project The Shops at Hudson Yards, Forty Five Ten—the forward-thinking Dallas-founded brand that merges fashion and art—brings the new, the...
Journal
Britain’s national treasure, fashion designer Sir Paul Smith (CBE RDI), is globally celebrated for his distinctive coloured stripes that accentuate, individualise and enliven his many fashion wares and accessories. Combining tradition with...
City Notes
Located in a former Singer sewing-machine store and onetime hardware outlet T.B. Rayl and Company, the two buildings—married in a thoughtful restoration by architects Kraemer Design Group before being decked out impeccably by designers Gachot...
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The nine-to-five cubicle office workplace is a relic, clinging onto society like a Brexit uncle who just won’t go away. The rise of creative companies, Silicon Valley influence, the coworking phenomenon … if an office space doesn’t share...
Dispatches
Al Freeman's summer exhibition at Forty Five Ten's Dallas boutique is a tongue-in-cheek show that turns common objects such as razors, cigarettes, toilet seat covers and lava lamps into mammoth deflating synthetic leather pillows. Located...
Dispatches
What did domestic cats do before the internet? LOLCats to I Can Has Cheezburger?, dogs—traditionally our favoured house pet—never found the same fame online as their feline foes. A 2010 research found that some 42% of Americans identified as...
Dispatches
And just like that, the 2019 edition of the A’ Design Award and Competition has drawn to a close. The competition—the world's largest of its kind—recognises the best designers, architects, and design-oriented companies globally; a jury made up...