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Marco Oggian is an illustrator, photographer, and all-round creative bod. Born in Italy, he now occupies a small studio in Spain where the food is good. He has a lot to say about what’s up with the world, and his observations, likes and dislikes...
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Bold, bright and always bags of fun, the work of multidisciplinary artist Michela Picchi has a knack for putting a smile on one’s face. Her lively palette, use of block colour, shape and form are intrinsic to the style of the...
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Herr Robert G. Bartholot—or simply Bartholot—is a one-man photographic studio based in Berlin. An artist of many contradictions, his portraiture work is classic in pose and composition, yet utterly modern in colour and experimental artistry....
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Energetic, youthful, and fun, the work of photography duo Ilka & Franz makes one smile instantly. Mostly self-taught, they use a vivacious palette and block backgrounds to depict people and objects using their unique narrative. Blurring the lines...
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Apparently we share some 60% of our genes with tomatoes. Humans are so much closer to the natural world, so much more an intrinsic part of it, than we care to imagine—rather positioning ourselves as lofty beings overseeing it from above. Examining...
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Shantell Martin's art is about connections. The connections that surround us. It is—like us—at once chaotic and uniformed. The New York-based British artist's practice is shaped by a stream-of-consciousness that is creative thinking in its most...
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Award-winning Moscow-born and -based contemporary artist Maria Agureeva explores perceptions, ideology, and expectations relating to the body. Vivacious, brave and bold in its appearance, although societal in nature, her work doesn’t preach or...
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Focussing on oft-unseen world of naturism, Naked Britain is British photographer Amelia Allen’s first publication. Shot over a two-year period, it documents members of the British Naturist Society going about their lives within their community. It...
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Anna Keville Joyce is a food stylist, illustrator, and culinary creative director. Her work epitomises energy on a page and screen, and that’s what food is—an essential power source which she brings to life. From comedic sushi emojis...
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XPLR (ex^plore) is a studio conceived by artist and illustrator David Rice. Visualising themes of urban and wild nature through the medium of paint, Rice creates what he describes as "environments that exist beyond the parameters of the physical...
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Spanish creative director, artist, and fashion designer David Méndez Alonso grew up in Galicia. His earliest influences came from the world of graffiti and American underground comics by Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, and Johnny Ryan. His work...
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L.A.-based Bunnie Reiss is an artist, muralist, and sculptor. Influenced by folk art, mysticism, and nature, Bunnie's often large-scale works can be found on walls all over the world. Sometimes delicate, and always impactful, the artist's...
City Notes
Set within three adjoined buildings in Manchester's city centre, Whitworth Locke is the latest offering from Locke—the brand of design-led aparthotels that immerses guests in its surrounding neighbourhood culture, connecting travellers with...
City Notes
Integrated into a lush national eco-reserve, consisting of 120 hectares of rolling hills and over 13,000 olive trees, owners Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau fell head over heels in love with this serene spot in Portugal's Alentejo region...
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Herr Robert G. Bartholot—or simply Bartholot—is a one-man photographic studio based in Berlin. An artist of many contradictions, his portraiture work is classic in pose and composition, yet utterly modern in colour and experimental artistry....
City Notes
“The difference between technology and slavery,” writes Lebanese–American essayist, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.” Debt, social expectations, and the façade of democracy may have...
Dispatches
Wales is a beautiful, often untouched country. Raw and majestic, dramatic mountain ranges, rolling hills and breathtaking coastline. And, if you’ve ever heard Super Furry Animals or Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, it can be downright weird too. Wood...
Dispatches
If your New Year's resolution list contained anything about 'bettering your career' or 'getting your work in front of more people', the A' Design Awards could well be the opportunity you've been waiting for. And now is your last chance to make those...
Dispatches
Sleep is often overlooked in favour of those things we do during our conscious hours. We feel that we can’t control it, we desire less of it in the quest for productivity, but that mindset—says sleep scientist Matthew Walker—is killing us....
Dispatches
The house parties of your youth: grandmother’s best china turned to dust, the rough kids from the estate arriving uninvited, ‘dubious’ odours from behind the garage, soiled sheets, “did you see what Ian did in Debbie’s wardrobe”,...