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It’s that time of year again, when recent graduates are busy considering their next step. “I’ve spent the last three or four years growing as a designer, but how can I get a job? Who will see my work among the white noise of new design...
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Another year, another A'Design Award & Competition. The coveted design award—which also happens to be the world's largest and most influential—has opened the gates for its 2019—2020 edition with an early call for entries. And, if you think you...
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Comprising 12 bedrooms that span 1,680 square metres of opulence—marble bathrooms, private chef and chauffeur, the world’s largest television (Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103), a Steinway grand piano, Brunswick billiard table and bulletproof...
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“It is one of the most phenomenal restaurants this country has,” says Tom Kerridge of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, “yet one of the least known.” Having been run by chef David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen for more than 30...
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Spanning 7,500 kilometres of Greece’s 16,000 kilometres of coastline, the Greek Archipelago is vast, with figures on the number of islands it comprises at some 6,000; 227 of which are inhabited. Which is a lot of islands, many of which are packed...
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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...
Stuff Crush
It was 1997, Cool Britannia at its peak and Tony Blair's Labour government elected. Britain was riding high on a wave of euphoria and optimism. Britpop was its soundtrack. Fresh out of university, Leeds-born photographer Matthew Finn took a job at...
Journal
“I made a series of decisions that led to an isolated existence almost by accident,” says Cate Le Bon of a year spent in self-imposed isolation, “but it was what I needed to readdress my relationship with music and the world.” “I...
Journal
Cleo Klapholz is a “29-year-old Antwerp-born Jewish girl” whose spare time is packed with creative pursuits including running UNQWomen, a project that sells customised gift boxes for women, and organising ProseccoPong, which takes that infamous...
City Notes
Our flat whites arrive as we’re busy circling numbers and underlining names in biro on a pocket-sized map that spans all from a candle shop whose doors opened in 1789 and Luvaria Ulisses, a glove store with space for just one customer at a time to...
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It’s that time of year again, when recent graduates are busy considering their next step. “I’ve spent the last three or four years growing as a designer, but how can I get a job? Who will see my work among the white noise of new design...
Dispatches
Another year, another A'Design Award & Competition. The coveted design award—which also happens to be the world's largest and most influential—has opened the gates for its 2019—2020 edition with an early call for entries. And, if you think you...
Dispatches
Comprising 12 bedrooms that span 1,680 square metres of opulence—marble bathrooms, private chef and chauffeur, the world’s largest television (Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103), a Steinway grand piano, Brunswick billiard table and bulletproof...
Dispatches
“It is one of the most phenomenal restaurants this country has,” says Tom Kerridge of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, “yet one of the least known.” Having been run by chef David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen for more than 30...