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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...
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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Acclaimed chef Lee Westcott has worked in some of the world's best kitchens—spending four years with Tom Aikens before overseeing two of Jason Atherton's Hong Kong establishments; staging at Noma and Per Se; and founding the lauded Typing Room at...
City Notes
With 60 design-packed, fully furnished apartments housed set within a 25-storey building in Midtown Village, Philadelphia, ROOST East Market—the third and largest property to date for owners Method Co., the team behind Fishtown's ravishingly...
Journal
The paragraph is an endangered species. Truth is, some Gen Z kids might never have got to meet these passages of text in their original form. Whilst the odd outlet is putting up a bold fight, certain publications cramming as many as three whole...
Journal
Artist Charlotte Edey has been demanding our attention with her ethereal and dreamy works for some time. Capturing our collective imaginations with work that depicts the natural world through water, deserts, and mountains alongside human-made...
Dispatches
“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...
Dispatches
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...
Dispatches
“Children have the knowledge but not the power to use the computer,” says Abdulazeez Henry Musa, author of Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century - The Rebirth of Armageddon. “As parents, you have to monitor what they do on the computer,...
Dispatches
Devon is many things, but one quality that is inescapable is its raw beauty. From the drama of towering cliffs crashing into the Atlantic to vast and rousing moorland, down to staggering beaches and Riviera glamour, the expansive county sees...