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Publications
Lannoo's Insta Grammar series comprises a succession of titles from Dogs to Cats, City to Nordic, Graphic to Unicorn; each investigating the varying trends on sub-trends that come, go, and stay on the image-based social media giant. The subject of...
Dispatches
Society’s obsession for photographing every moment, everything, and everybody is showing no signs of slowing down. We continuously create snapshot moments only for them to exist on our smartphones; our own memory slowing sinking into the...
Journal
The new photography movement is a very modern juxtaposition that proves the undeniable longevity of one of our most popular arts. The principles behind primitive versions of the camera — like the camera obscura or pinhole — date back to ancient...
Dispatches
What with Weedles and Squirtles and Pinsirs and co., strange creatures have become a regular part of many people's day to day lives in recent months — for one Instagrammer, though, imaginary beasts have been coming into view a little longer; Ben...
Dispatches
Somehow, it still manages to tip the scales of the internet, sending celebs into heated meltdowns and drawing opinion from just about every corner of the world. We've all seen every single inch of Kim Kardashian's body ... yet, when she gets it out,...
Dispatches
Yeah, youth ... damn ... anyone else struggle with differentiating between the years when you did something? If you go back to my late-teens, then my differential buffer is probably at the five year mark ... 1999 ... 2004 ... does it...
Dispatches
I don’t know that I necessarily agree with Michael Schulz’s characterisation of Berlin as ‘ugly’ — I mean, it’s not exactly a total dump like , is it? Still, it’s not hard see what he means when he says the German capital and the new...
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'Totally addicted to Berlin architecture and ESPECIALLY the LEGO Architecture Studio Box', Arndt Schlaudraff is the man building his way around the world's (and his own imagination's) Brutalist gems, one LEGO brick at a time. Salk Institute...
Dispatches
2015 was another big year for us here at We Heart Towers, not least a complete overhaul of this very website. We changed our look, but also tonnes of functionality to boot; debuting our London City Guide, giving you our culture-led events listings,...
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As social media further embeds itself into the daily rituals of contemporary life — and creative talents who have known nothing but the internet continue to explode into view — Instagram has become a breeding ground for future-forward creatives...
Dispatches
"Kinfolk magazine: making white people feel artistic since 2011" reads the tagline on hipster-shaming Tumblr The Kinspiracy. "Cuz holding your ice cream up to a wall turns it into art 🎨🍦" Fusing four images each pulled...
Dispatches
You all love Instagram don't you? Not even its Dark Ages, militant approach to the female nipple can deter 44.4 million of you from stalking Kim Kardashian. Over 300 million of our planet's inhabitants simply can't get enough of selfies, brunches...
Journal
“We’ve never quite felt this welcomed anywhere else,“ admits Réka Pasztor Turak of ‘live global, experience local’ map platform, Local’s Lore. And she’s right. There really is a special essence to Antwerp, one that means you feel at...
Journal
Martina Spetlova is a designer and innovator who is fighting for a more ethical world of fashion and textiles. Her luxury hand-woven accessories and jackets are designed and made with transparency, ethics and sustainability in mind, but her design...
Stuff Crush
Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill has been an industry leader since the early 1960s, his architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura having completed an impressive 1,000 projects in more than 50 countries; each of...
City Notes
You're walking along Dom Pedro V—a street between Lisbon's Bairro Alto and Príncipe Real neighbourhoods, lined with some of the city's more modish bars and eateries—when a crowd of people holding a tall glass of pisco sour come into...
Dispatches
Another year, another A'Design Award & Competition. The coveted design award—which also happens to be the world's largest and most influential—has opened the gates for its 2019—2020 edition with an early call for entries. And, if you think you...
Dispatches
Comprising 12 bedrooms that span 1,680 square metres of opulence—marble bathrooms, private chef and chauffeur, the world’s largest television (Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103), a Steinway grand piano, Brunswick billiard table and bulletproof...
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“It is one of the most phenomenal restaurants this country has,” says Tom Kerridge of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, “yet one of the least known.” Having been run by chef David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen for more than 30...
Dispatches
Spanning 7,500 kilometres of Greece’s 16,000 kilometres of coastline, the Greek Archipelago is vast, with figures on the number of islands it comprises at some 6,000; 227 of which are inhabited. Which is a lot of islands, many of which are packed...