The Edit
A clever piece of work this, by Minnessotan artist Greg Gossel. What looks like a particularly well-decorated section of fly-postered walls, in which the flyers have been torn away to reveal a hidden beauty, is really a painstakingly constructed...
The Edit
Isn't it enough to be a multi-million pound actor with James Dean looks? Apparently not, not for James Franco, the chiselled star of the Spider-Man franchise and 127 Hours who is stretching his creative talent into multimedia installations under the...
The Edit
It's that time of year again. Sue Barker gets her white pants on, Pimms sales achieve their yearly spike, Andy Murray is either British or Scottish depending on how he's doing in that particular match, and Serena Williams tries and fails to look...
The Edit
Just like the music compilations that inspired the name, Now That's What I Call Photography 2 is a collection of 30 artists' work, but this is a collection to be seen and not heard - no Savage Garden or Nelly Furtado here, but rather a selection of...
The Edit
“Open minded adult intellectuals only” warns the Satanic Mojo Comix exhibition poster, and we should probably apply the same restrictions in telling you about it. Goodness knows what that sort of filter will do to our readership, but we'll take...
The Edit
Los Angeles isn't always in the headlines for the right reasons – we certainly don't hear a lot of great things from outside the USA - but flying in the face of negative opinion is this exhibition showing the city's best side and proving that...
The Edit
I'll have to forego the conventions of opening with a joke in this article since I only have one typography gag and I used it a couple of months ago. If any of our readers have any others, we'd be pleased to hear them. Anyway, someone who has an...
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Walking through the solo show by Californian artist and illustrator Deth P. Sun is like walking through a 1980s fantasy adventure video game. There are cloud-peaked mountains, mysterious crystals, dimension portals and unwieldy swords, forbidding...
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Where would we be without physics? Ha ha, a little science joke for you there. Yeah OK, science isn't often very funny, but it can be beautiful – just have a gander at the collaborative work of Hackney design studio Haberdashery and photographer...
Journal
Charged with the task of creating scenescapes that defy logic, suspend reality, amaze and perplex; most resort to Photoshop, 3D modelling or some other technological somesuch. When asked to create such a visual scenario for a new Ford advert,...
The Edit
Science fiction fans may know the word “frack” as a cheeky way for the writers of the Battlestar Galactica TV series to swear their way around the pre-watershed censoring, but fracking is also a bit of a dirty word in the real-life scientific...
Art & Culture
We're pleased to announce a couple of our favourite creative characters have unveiled a new creative character of their own – Chairman Ting (aka design visionary Carson Ting and business brains Denise Cheung) are back with a design for the Dunny...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...