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Journal
L.A.-based Bunnie Reiss is an artist, muralist, and sculptor. Influenced by folk art, mysticism, and nature, Bunnie's often large-scale works can be found on walls all over the world. Sometimes delicate, and always impactful, the artist's...
Journal
Beginning his experimentation with graffiti at the tender age of 15, self-taught artist Franck Noto—aka Zest—has honed his singular style over the years that have followed; now one of France’s most celebrated street artists. The...
London
A new floating restaurant and bar for London, Darcie & May Green features an exterior designed by the one-and-only Sir Peter Blake, and an all-day menu bursting with fresh and distinctive Antipodean-informed cuisine. Located on the Grand...
Dispatches
'I love London and I’m fucking angry,' blurts Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who's spent more than ten years living in the capital. Bahari, who is also the founder of Paint the Change, a new initiative to push social...
Dispatches
Not-for-profit organisation St+art India created their first open air public art district in India during December 2014, uniting local and international artists who together brought the empty walls and winding streets of the city and suburbs alive...
Dispatches
London's culture-forward, design-led souvenir store, We Built This City, have revealed their latest shopfront collaboration; this time with much-loved creative heavyweight Rob Lowe, aka Supermundane. Lowe delves deep into his...
The Edit
Dundee is renowned for jam, jute, and journalism. Fast becoming Scotland’s coolest city, many don’t realise is that it’s also home to some of the most iconic comics long loved by kids around the world. This year, DC Thomson celebrates 80 years...
Dispatches
More familiar with putting well-known brands into the streets, Jack Agency's latest public intervention is a purely creative beast — We Heart favourite Joe Cruz seeing his fashion-heavy illustrative style rendered larger than life for the first...
Ostend
Some might say there's not much to look at in Ostend, Belgium. Its long sandy beach has been a draw for hundreds of years, and it has spent time as one of Europe's most stylish seaside retreats; bombed to buggery in WWII, though, and rebuilt with a...
Dispatches
Remember Michał Bieżyński? He's the ambitious guy behind the brilliant Lodz Murals project; the creative pioneer who wants his street art project to define the Polish city like Gustave Eiffel's landmark defines Paris. The public art...
New York
Another month, another new hotel for the Big Apple. For the city that never sleeps, there sure are plenty of spots for visitors to contradict that old epithet. Adding to New York City's ascending number of bedrooms, 11 Howard is a landmark property...
Lodz
Michał Bieżyński isn't short of ambition. Having brought street art big-hitters like Vhils, Os Gemeos, Aryz, and Roa, to the walls of his city, the man behind the ongoing Lodz Murals project wants to be remembered alongside the likes of Gustave...
The Edit
Considering Charles M. Schulz would proclaim his iconic comic strip was "about nothing", the influence of Peanuts on popular culture has been—and continues to be—nothing short of monumental; Snoopy and his human friends inspiring artists to...
Dispatches
As the East Fremont area of Downtown Las Vegas began a cultural transformation, a festival celebrating creativity and difference was born. Called Life is Beautiful, it would grow to become a three-day extravaganza for likeminded people to immerse...
Stuff Crush
When a chance meeting led Fleet Street photographer Derek Cattani to cross paths with Australian-born John Rendall and Anthony (Ace) Bourke, little did he know that he'd become a trusted member of a lion cub's human pride. It's a story...
Journal
The fifth edition of D.A.T.E.—Discover Antwerp Through Experience—was hosted by This is Antwerp during an inspirational five days between 27 September and 1 October, where eight creative tech entrepreneurs from varying reaches of Europe and...
Dispatches
Websites have grown bland in the contemporary digital age. Template-driven and generic, homogenised by the frameworks of big-name content management systems. The internet is a place of dry technicality; portals seeking to convey information or to...
Dispatches
It's easier than ever to be green, as healthier alternatives have finally found the acclaim they deserve. Matcha tea has become a commonplace flavour in the dessert world, including those of famed Belgian chocolatier Godiva. And this is a trend that...
Dispatches
As the East Fremont area of Downtown Las Vegas began a cultural transformation, a festival celebrating creativity and difference was born. Called Life is Beautiful, it would grow to become a three-day extravaganza for likeminded people to immerse...
Dispatches
One of the things to admire most about those behind the A’Design Award is their sheer commitment to recognising new talent across an exhaustive spectrum of design. In fact, with some 100 categories, plus many more sub-categories and...