City Notes
Grounded in an East-meets-West design philosophy, the doors have opened on Ace Hotel Kyoto; the hip hotel chain's Asian debut a 213-room hotel built in homage to the city's creative spirit. Longtime Ace partner Commune Design have combined natural,...
City Notes
Disrupting the world of childcare, Brella—located in the Los Angeles Playa Vista neighbourhood—is an on-demand childcare provider which is designed to be responsive, rather than restrictive; challenging the current childcare paradigm by...
The Edit
A way to express our personality, character and the way we live, our private living spaces shape our everyday routines (more so now that many of us continue to work from home due to the current pandemic) and affect our wellbeing; many homes...
Stuff Crush
Raising funds for the RCN Foundation COVID-19 Support Fund, collaborating with a series of brilliant creatives along the way, TIME ON OUR HANDS is an inspired 110-page publication compiled by London-based producer/director Jackson Payne and...
City Notes
Combining art, design and retail, Gallery Gif—put together by Miyao Design Studio—is a place for creatives and the curious to hang out, discover young local brands and exhibit wherever possible their own work; the former cafe encouraging...
Dispatches
In a bid to highlight Mental Health Awareness Week, which starts today, a collective of 21 foodies, artists and bartenders will share their hopes, dreams and fears to help improve understanding and raise funds for charities, The Drinks Trust and...
Dispatches
With its minimal aesthetics and unique charm, Casa Plenaire looks like the type of escapist architecture you'd find on Greek Islands such as postcard-perfect Santorini and Mykonos. However, conceived by Child Studio as part of a collaboration...
Dispatches
Whilst the world around us may be looking very different at the moment, there's at least one constant throughout these unprecedented times: the A’ Design Award and Competition. Having wrapped up another year—the 2019-2020 edition now...
Dispatches
We talk a lot about change. Changing ourselves and changing what exists around us; changing mindsets and making positive change. And then, out of nowhere, the world changed completely. And what about a global pandemic to help us begin to start...
Dispatches
What started with a billboard takeover at Leeds’s Hyde Park Corner has become a much grander initiative, local street art project In Good Company now counting 150 sites across the city that renowned designers and artists have given a splash of...
Dispatches
Back when we in the West couldn't conceive the staggering impact of a new coronavirus, Max Siedentopf courted controversy with his series How To Survive A Deadly Global Virus; little did we know how foreboding it would be. Using his subsequent time...
Stuff Crush
Despite the whole world experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic at once, it's hard not to feel alone. In these uncertain months of home quarantine—depending on where you're spending your lockdown—some are allowed out to work, to engage in simple...
Dispatches
Design and visual imagery has always been at the centre of propagating messages to the people. From the stone reliefs celebrating Assyrian victories in 860BC to the Bayeux Tapestry in 1066; the constructivist propaganda posters of Soviet Russia to...
Journal
As we are shuttered in, watching the world through a window, our appetite grows for finding the offline online; searching for a semblance of normality. Public access to arts and culture has always been paramount in the collective and individual...
Stuff Crush
I stand in solidarity with anyone who does a little bit of sick in their mouth when they hear the phrase: “they don’t make ‘em like they used to.” But in the case of Doug’s Gym, downtown Dallas, there is little else to say. They simply...
City Notes
Design-led hospitality brand, Locke, has opened its second London-based hotel; Millennium Bridge the chosen location for a staggering 113-room property, and setting the stage for two more openings in the capital later this year. Locke at...
Dispatches
The internet may just be one of the most momentous inventions of all times, it has given us the kind of freedom and ability to communicate and share information that past generations could not have imagined. However, along with the good came the...
Dispatches
This year there have been many people changing their lifestyles and their habits during the Covid-19 crisis. But long before the pandemic, there was an urgent need for society to live more sustainably in order to help protect the planet for longer....
Dispatches
Most people who have visited a casino will have been somewhat aware of the tricks of the trade that are used to make them spend as much money as possible. Photo, Clem Onojeghuo. Casinos famously do not have any clocks in view, so it...
Dispatches
Why should you launch on Upwork? This is the world's biggest service for work that allows small, medium and large organisations and design agencies to find both talents and clients over the globe. However, that's not where the benefits of the...