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'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....
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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...
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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...
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‘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...
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Clubbing in the 1990s was a very lo-fi affair. Dish up a smoke-machine, chuck in a strobe light, and it was: 'nice one, mate, sorted'. Stadium bands aside, the same went for gigs and festivals — and you were lucky if the visuals at the latter's...
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Having successfully raised money for The Hepatitis C Trust through annual secret postcard auctions, the Art on a Postcard project has decided to hippy hippy shake things up, with somewhat of a musical approach this year. Inspired by...
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A’ Design Award and Competition — the gargantuan awards roll-call that believes our collective futures will be shaped by arts, design, and technology; and recognises creativity that masters those sectors — have announced this year's winners, a...
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The bed. There are few pieces of product design so ubiquitous, no necessary to our very being, yet the space for our slumber remains a stranger to many a designer's portfolio. Perhaps it's the prohibitive necessities — there's precious little...
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Something special happens at night. It is when the harsh realities of the day are washed away, and the shadows allow your imagination to run free. Actuality is replaced by emotion, your mind plays tricks. Sometimes you like that, others you don't....
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Anyone of sane mind knows that Brexit is a really fucking bad idea. Designers Nathan Smith and Sam T Smith know it, and so do a ruck load of their fellow UK-based creatives; names like Craig Oldham, Patrick Thomas, Jim Sutherland, NB Studio, and...
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The New Stand is a revolutionary retail concept in New York. An App, a marketing platform, a source of daily enlightenment; a veritable 21st century upgrade to the classic newsstand. From their original Union Square subway spot to residing among the...
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London's culture-forward, design-led souvenir store, We Built This City, have revealed their latest shopfront collaboration; this time with much-loved creative heavyweight Rob Lowe, aka Supermundane. Lowe delves deep into his...
City Notes
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
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
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
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...
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'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
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 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
‘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...