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Journal
A few steps and a tiny door in a corner of Ventura Lambrate led to the Geneva University of Art and Design’s Conversation Pieces – an immersive apartment created entirely by the university’s students. Based on an idea by Alexandra Midal, the...
Amsterdam
Being a student in Amsterdam must be a severe test of one's powers of concentration and willpower at the best of times, so sharing your halls of residence with hedonistic tourists seems like it would be a step too far for mere mortals. Presumably...
The Edit
Despite the title, there's nothing superficial about the SURFACED exhibition – a body of photography from students of the Manchester School of Art. The collection brings together 19 vastly different artists in a culmination of their studies, the...
Journal
Beckmans College of Design's Never Mind the Object was one of my personal highlights from last year's Stockholm Design Fair, and this year's graduates' group show is equally as impressive. Cynics (that know me) will say that using a bulldog in last...
Journal
Having just finished up at Bath School of Art and Design, Callum Robey is a young illustrator at the dawn of his career; not that you'd think it, Robey's work is brimming with confidence, irreverence and flair, owing much to the DIY gusto of zine...
Journal
The current focus on We Heart is on British Design, in celebration of the Olympics, and where better to find the future of British Design, than at “the UK’s most important graduate exhibition” (if they do say so themselves!), New Designers....
Journal
Answering a brief from Creative Review editor Patrick Burgoyne - to 'do better' than the official big-name artist designed Olympic posters - Kingston University student Josh King answered the brief with aplomb. It's not surprising when you dig...
Journal
As we continue our expedition to the heart of British creativity, let us introduce a young graduate whose work extols the much maligned heartland of quintessential Britishness. Celebrating the eccentric world of "the cat lady", recent Kingston...
Journal
Student Union bars. Wasting time, wasting money, just getting wasted. Libraries. Endless rows of dry old tomes and shushing bookworms. I spent, I will admit, many happy hours in my Student Union bar, although not as many as our esteemed editor, who...
Journal
We all know how important the greenery in our environment is for us. We simply cannot live without it; yet, our homes often act as if it didn't exist - aside from the countless dead trees that furnish it. The students of University of Gothenburg's...
Journal
Exploring the possibility of giving life to an object through tactile experience, creating a fragile, feminine object by countering traditional 'masculine' qualities like durability, safety and stability, giving shape to the brooding corners of...
City Notes
Located in a former residential development with ties to designer Philippe Starck, Generator Copenhagen combines style, energy and affordable hospitality in the heart of the city; the famous Nyhavn waterfront is just steps away. The six-storey...
City Notes
Villa Terminus offers 18 design-led guest rooms on Norway’s dramatic western coast. Perhaps Bergen’s most sophisticated boutique hotel, it’s also local hotel group De Bergenske’s smallest. Not that size matters here. Capturing the...
The Edit
Western governments and their complicit mainstream media have successfully desensitised many to the lives of those who inhabit 'that part of the world'. Cities like Baghdad and Tripoli are bywords for darker concepts, and the realities are...
City Notes
In a city best known for futuristic skylines and slightly anonymous luxurious five-star hotels (Lost in Translation anyone?), it would be fair to say that Tokyo's BnA hotel does things a little differently. For starters: it's tiny, with only two...
Dispatches
'I don't know. They grow, they bloom, they fade.' Says Antwerp-based florist Mark Colle of his floral friends. 'You can't hold on to them forever . Fashion is like that too in a way—it comes and it goes. They are symbolic for richness, romance....
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
Craig Redman and Karl Maier, the New York- and London-based creative giants who collaborate under their Craig & Karl moniker, know a thing or two about unabashed technicolour splendour; the duo's ocular assaults rioting from the pages of fashion...
Dispatches
‘Epic, but modest at the same time … do you know what I mean?’ Naturally, the answer is no, but he’s your boss and the client is due any minute. Welcome to the world of the Hovering Art Director. In a video that forms part of a new global...