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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...
Journal
The design of Brad Neuberg's blog, Coding in Paradise, has not stood the test of time, but the concept he defined in a 2005 post sure has. Having worked with Google and Dropbox among other major platforms, Neuberg introduced a new way to work in...
Journal
It wouldn’t be the Kardashian clan if they weren’t making headlines, but Kim Kardashian West’s recent onslaught on the world of ‘fast fashion’ has had some fashion onlookers smelling a shiny golden rat. Posting an Instagram of...
Journal
Sonny Crockett, Tony Montana, and pastel hues might define it, but Miami has deep cultural depths that can surprise even repeat visitors. A rich tapestry of culture, art, and music coupled with a rousing nightlife scene (and let’s not forget our...
City Notes
A brand new cinema-bar-café experience has recently landed in the handsome city of Bath. TIVOLI Cinema merges mainstream and art house film with art, dining and cocktails. It’s a quite beautiful space, too, offering luxury, comfort and oodles of...
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Stretching out to the country’s farthest tip, Cornwall is a county of inspired beauty. Surrounded by some of Britain’s most alluring waters, it is a region rich in maritime heritage, but enjoys all that brings to this day; namely jaw-dropping...
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In rural areas of Morocco, up to 83% of women are still illiterate. And despite the government’s support of education policy and women’s rights, still more than half the country. They’re depressing figures, but one charity is doing incredible...
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“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour,” so wrote William Cowper in his 1785 poem, The Task, thus giving way to a phrase that would affix itself firmly to the modern lexicon. Of course he was wrong, for spontaneity is...
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It may have only been operational for 14 years—transitioning between Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin—but 100 years since it opened, the impact of The Bauhaus resonates as strongly as ever. The enduring influence of the teachings that shaped modernism...