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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...
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The Gorbachev campaign was an anti-alcohol crusade by the owner of the world's most famous birthmark, Mikhail Gorbachev, the then General Secretary of the Communist Party. Known also as the ‘dry law’, the 1985—87 movement resulted in the rise...
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Since its 1904 conception by Danish silversmith Georg Jensen, the eponymous Danish design company has grown synonymous with Scandinavian-designed collections, exceptional craftsmanship, and innovative collaborations. 112 years older, and...
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In an ever-evolving world, a world of change and uncertainty, the masses are caught in a cycle of flitting from one fad to the next. Fashion; music; technology; social media; food or drink. Sure, change can be good, change allows us to experience...
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Ever sat down and thought about the journey your online orders take? The hands; the depots; the planes, trains and automobiles; the shipping containers; the signatures, documentation and international bureaucracy? The voyage from click to...
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The DeLorean Motor Company's DMC-12. A brushed stainless-steel vision of hope and of dreams. Thankfully I'm too young to have remembered its short-lived production (1981-83), but I'm not too young to have missed its most iconic moment; gull-wings...
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Sponsored by The 7th Chamber Hallowe'en is upon us — a time when thoughts turn to the ghoulish, ghastly and downright terrifying things that push our panic buttons. Horror films are designed to frighten the pants off its viewers, but sometimes...
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They say you should never meet your idols. Perhaps you shouldn't email them either. London-based producer Oscar Powell (who releases music under his surname) got in touch with infamously spiky Shellac/Rapeman/Big Black man Steve Albini, seeking...
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You know Liu Bolin. He's the Chinese artist who looks like a graffitied wall. And an aisle of soft drinks down the supermarket. Or a cubicle office. Commencing his chameleon career in 2005, with the genesis of his ongoing Hiding in the City project,...
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What does the 11 year-old son of ice cool Acne Studios creative director/co-founder Jonny Johansson do on his summer holidays? Extra maths homework ... join his friends down the local RPG club playing Dungeons & Dragons ... kick a flat leather casey...
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STRIKE! — a bi-monthly subversive politics newspaper — went viral last year, their Totally Pointless poster designs being put up around London, thanks to a "shadowy art-activism organisation" going under the name of The Special Patrol Group...
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In George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones fantasy books A Song of Ice and Fire, winter is coming and mankind's very existence is threatened by a tribe of horse-riding necromancers and their army of the dead. In the real world, it's the planet's...
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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...
Journal
You’ve seen the lab-like vessels occupying space in the world’s hippest coffee shops. It’s the 12-hour method of methodically dripping water over coffee beans that typifies the nerdy attention-to-detail that’s seen third wave coffee elevate...
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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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There was once a ‘Keep Calm … ‘ sense of Middle England about the term ‘holiday cottage’; all plus fours and Chelsea tractors, slamming down a five kilogram copy of the Sunday Times to spend the afternoon perusing with a steady flow of...
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There's nothing better than a little competition to encourage us to push boundaries and achieve our best work—and don't those clever minds behind the A’ Design Award & Competition know it; as they once again reveal the annual World Design...
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The occult has enchanted humankind for eons. There’s something in every one of us that is drawn to the mysterious and magical; to stories of spectral visions and strange unexplained phenomena. We can’t help but thrill at the tales of ghosts and...
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The Christmas parties are in full swing, shops are stocked with festive treats and our bellies are preparing for an onslaught of turkey, mince pies, cheese, and whatever else our long-lost relatives throw our way. Yuletide, the time of year when we...