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Life as a student is often the key transition from childhood to adulthood, your first days of freedom allowing you to begin to write your own rules, develop your personality and your practices, establish new skills such as time management....
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Travelling can expand your thinking. Additionally, it can improve your discernment and intelligence skills. For most students, travel is an integral constituent of a well-versed or comprehensive education. There are several ways of mixing travel and...
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Herodotus once said: "If a man always insisted on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it." Stress is a part of any learning environment. Deadlines and challenging...
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Everyone knows that the life of a student revolves around writing assignments, whether it’s an essay or a narrative, a student can claim to know perfectly how to write in general, but not every student can meet the accepted writing standards to...
Publications
It was 1997, Cool Britannia at its peak and Tony Blair's Labour government elected. Britain was riding high on a wave of euphoria and optimism. Britpop was its soundtrack. Fresh out of university, Leeds-born photographer Matthew Finn took a job at...
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Since 2010 the Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) has, through sheer determination, attracted some of the globe's very best creatives, becoming what is now 'the' largest student design competition in the...
Florence
The Student Hotel have recently set up campus in Florence, a converted palace in the heart of the city representing the first property in Italy for the progressive Dutch chain that—since their freshers' week in 2012—counts cities such as...
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...
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Design and visual imagery has always been at the centre of propagating messages to the people. From the stone reliefs celebrating Assyrian victories in 860BC to the Bayeux Tapestry in 1066; the constructivist propaganda posters of Soviet Russia to...
Journal
As we are shuttered in, watching the world through a window, our appetite grows for finding the offline online; searching for a semblance of normality. Public access to arts and culture has always been paramount in the collective and individual...
Stuff Crush
I stand in solidarity with anyone who does a little bit of sick in their mouth when they hear the phrase: “they don’t make ‘em like they used to.” But in the case of Doug’s Gym, downtown Dallas, there is little else to say. They simply...
City Notes
Design-led hospitality brand, Locke, has opened its second London-based hotel; Millennium Bridge the chosen location for a staggering 113-room property, and setting the stage for two more openings in the capital later this year. Locke at...
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The internet may just be one of the most momentous inventions of all times, it has given us the kind of freedom and ability to communicate and share information that past generations could not have imagined. However, along with the good came the...
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This year there have been many people changing their lifestyles and their habits during the Covid-19 crisis. But long before the pandemic, there was an urgent need for society to live more sustainably in order to help protect the planet for longer....
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Most people who have visited a casino will have been somewhat aware of the tricks of the trade that are used to make them spend as much money as possible. Photo, Clem Onojeghuo. Casinos famously do not have any clocks in view, so it...
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Why should you launch on Upwork? This is the world's biggest service for work that allows small, medium and large organisations and design agencies to find both talents and clients over the globe. However, that's not where the benefits of the...