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Journal

Impulsiveness, humility, provocation, hard work: lessons learnt from the creatives who commanded OFFF 2017...

James Davidson 11 May, 2017

There’s a palpable sense of anticipation as Lance Wyman readies himself to take the stage in front of a packed audience. Different generations of creatives, unified by a deep-seated respect — like The Rolling Stones headlining Glastonbury in...

Journal

The importance of the past on our present: how the G7 of Culture are working to preserve art's true icons...

Lorna Turnbull 9 May, 2017

Florence is a Renaissance city; there’s no getting around that fact. Narrow cobbled streets wind their way from the banks of the Arno to the Piazzo del Duomo, where one of the most impressive feats of 15th century engineering and design still...

Publications

Joseph Ernst, Nothing in the News

James Davidson 5 May, 2017

There are so many complexities involved in our current global predicament. So many dark paths that normal people have been lead down; so many avenues of corruption and abuses of power. Propaganda is alive and well — in fact it's so alive, it is...

Dispatches

Get your pick of the art world, as Art on a Plectrum helps to fund ambitious ukulele charity art project...

Lisa Davidson 5 May, 2017

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...

The Edit

One wall, one dozen street artists, one mission: to readdress the importance of urban art and how it's shown...

Lisa Davidson 25 April, 2017

The 12+1 street art project — which over the duration of 12 months welcomes 12 artists to create one piece of art on one wall — is an open-air pop-up gallery which can be found in the small city of l'Hospitalet de Llobregat; often mistaken for a...

Publications

Julian Mährlein, London Youth

Lisa Davidson 25 April, 2017

London Youth, the third publication in Hoxton Mini Press’s Tales from the City series, features compelling portraits of inner-city teenagers, some smiling, some serious; each a true portraiture of modern life for the city's youth of...

Nancy Baron and Pamela Littky, American Desert Dreams

The Edit

Disparate desert depictions: two photographers find uncommon ground in America's untamed drylands...

Francesca Soler 11 April, 2017

There are few places on this earth more emotive to artists and dreamers than the American desert. Its uneasy alliance with the American Dream, and the fading iconography of Americana, its vastness and kitschness and curious characters. ©...

Dispatches

Under darkness, New York's haze of neon feeds the imaginations of romantics who treasure the shadows...

James Davidson 7 April, 2017

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....

The Edit

Rebecca Louise Law's exploration of ephemerality continues with an installation connecting past and present...

Francesca Soler 3 April, 2017

'I really enjoy observing the whole process of a flower’s life,' Rebecca Louise Law began telling us in a 2015 interview on these pages, 'from seed to flower, and subsequently preserving the flower within my work. My installations are designed to...

The Edit

Sydney-based Venezuelan artist uses folklore as a filter through which to distill her nation's problems...

Francesca Soler 30 March, 2017

As her native Venezuela lunges from one crisis to the next, Sydney-based artist Nadia Hernández looks to the folklore of her home country for ways to enact positive change. 'It’s the binding core of a culture,' Hernández says of these cultural...

Dispatches

UK-based creatives reach out to their European brothers and sisters in witty post-Brexit postcard project...

James Davidson 24 March, 2017

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...

Publications

The-Art-Form: Issue 2

James Davidson 21 March, 2017

I'm a sucker for explicit concepts with do-what-they-say-on-the-tin epithets. Tickling my emphatic fancy with a clear-cut project is The-Art-Form: a form, about art. In a painfully simple process, the brains behind this limited edition publication...

Staff Favourites

X-Rated Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s

Stuff Crush

How the deeply desirable design of adult cinema's golden era defied convention and defined an age...

Lisa Davidson 22 August, 2017

X-Rated Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s, released by Reel Art Press, expands on the wonderfully retro collection of Nourmand and Marsh’s original cult bestseller; a riotous romp through kitsch aesthetic, released over ten years...

City Notes

Another winner served by the dominant force in culturally-conscious travel, as Ace venture into Chicago...

Lisa Davidson 18 August, 2017

The latest member of the Ace family has opened its doors — Ace Hotel Chicago joining Seattle; Portland; New York; Palm Springs; Downtown LA; London; Panama City; Pittsburgh; and New Orleans in celebrating each city’s singular design heritage,...

The Edit

Oscar Wilde, Belle and Sebastian, Frankenstein and the Instagram generation's quest for uneasy perfection...

James Davidson 17 August, 2017

Nominated for Best British Newcomers at the always-awful Brit Awards in 1999 — despite having formed in 1996 and having already released three critically-acclaimed albums — Belle and Sebastian oddly usurped pop favourites like Steps and 5ive,...

City Notes

Serious coffee with smiley aesthetics, Portland's NEVER is a juxtaposition that hits all the right notes...

Lisa Davidson 16 August, 2017

NEVER COFFEE Portland, serves up some of the city’s finest third wave coffee in a small but perfectly-executed space on Belmont Street. A neighbourhood joint where bumping elbows and standing to enjoy a quick espresso is actively encouraged,...

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THIS is the life, relaxing and taking in the views over the countryside from the infinity pool at @stpierredeserjac 🇫🇷

BEER CULTURE: We're super excited to announce that our side project @canamagazine (a print magazine about beer and culture) has today launched a Kickstarter to raise funding to print Issue One and secure its ongoing future. PLEDGE NOW! (Link in Bio)⠀
—⠀
📸 @sergi_ac⠀⠀
⠀

Nabucco Obrador Vegetarià; a cute little spot in #Gràcia for veggie lunches ⠀
⠀

Want to make money in serious style? Influencer and blog marketing platform, @blogfoster_uk, has arrived on UK shores ... find out more via the link in our bio #ad #ukfashionblogger #fashionbloggersuk⠀
⠀

Dispatches

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The deadline for regular submissions is looming, do you have what it takes to be honoured by A' Design Awards...

Team We Heart Sponsored Story

Think you have what it takes to be a winner of the worlds' largest design competition? This year's A’ Design Award — champions of great design, and creators of a fair, ethical and competitive platform — is open for submissions; do you have...

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Want to make money in serious style? Influencer and blog marketing platform, Blogfoster, arrives on UK shores...

Lisa Davidson Sponsored Story

As summer has most definitely turned to autumn, seemingly overnight, days spent in denim cut-offs and colourful t-shirts paired with cute open-toe sandals are all but over; at least until next year. It’s sad, but I throw my hands up in...

A’ Design Award and Competition Top 20 Winners

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As A’ Design Award welcomes submissions for its 2017—2018 edition, we reveal 20 of our favourite past winners...

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Going from strength to strength each year, the quality and quantity of submissions and eventual winners of the prestigious A' Design Award and Competition continues to rise; with 180 nationalities represented across 110 design disciplines, its...

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As tech aficionados prepare to descend upon Berlin for another edition of IFA, we have tickets to giveaway...

Lisa Davidson Sponsored Story

Between 1 — 6 September, Berlin will plug-in, power-up and bolt alive with tech-savvy gear aficionados; the city playing host to the world's leading trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances. Albert Einstein opens the...