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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
'The concept is simple,' say the team behind Japanese multi-venue arts-hospitality venture BnA Project, 'we create art hotel rooms with artists, the artists receive a percentage of the booking fee every time their room is booked. Room design, from...
The Edit
Emily Forgot is the appropriately mysterious alias of Emily Alston, a London-based artist who has worked in the creative industry over the last decade; amassing a diverse range of international clients, and gaining plaudits from big-hitters like...
City Notes
Taking its name from Nelson Algren’s 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side, and inspiration from iconic mid-century diners and bars, Dove’s Luncheonette provides diners with a dollop of nostalgia in Chicago’s enduringly cool Wicker Park 'hood;...
City Notes
An 1880s-era hotel has been transformed into a contemporary boutique destination in the remote but mythical West Texas town of Marfa, which is riding high on its curious but significant art scene; from Donald Judd moving here from New York in 1973...
Dispatches
What with Weedles and Squirtles and Pinsirs and co., strange creatures have become a regular part of many people's day to day lives in recent months — for one Instagrammer, though, imaginary beasts have been coming into view a little longer; Ben...
Dispatches
The London EDITION is well known for lasting comfort and extraordinary style — two elements that, thanks to a collaboration with nearby independent bicycle company tokyobike, will be taken outside the walls of Ian Schrager's decadent bolthole and...
Dispatches
The outstanding architectural legacy left by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, is undoubtedly one of the 20th century's most significant. Pioneering Urbanism, inadvertently triggering the Brutalist movement, conceiving...
Dispatches
This is an advertorial for Safestore Clean and crisp, clutter kept to the bare minimum, Scandi-cool. You know the script: minimalism rules. Right? Wrong. Maximalism has been making a quiet comeback of late — extravagant Parisian hotels that...
