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The Edit
There's a trend among leading design talent to shun technology. Perhaps it's the staid repetitive nature of mass-produced tech, perhaps it's its machismo, or perhaps the need to break away from the surrounding digital oppression we live...
Technology
Demonstrating a marvel of engineering, Native Union have transformed solid stone into a slim and lightweight design that retains the cold mineral touch of marble. The CLIC Marble lightweight case is the first of its kind; the material's naturally...
The Edit
Having been around Art Basel Miami and Milan Design Week, Studio PSK's Polyphonic Playground is back home this weekend, for a two-day event that honours the cultural dawning underway at Stratford's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Emergent...
New York
I remember the days when the height of home entertainment was a ghetto blaster that ran on them big fat C batteries that basically cost more than the stereo itself to refill. Sure, your dad was probably playing around with something a lot more...
Journal
ZEITGUISED is a collective of international artists and designers working in the fields of sculpture, architecture, fashion and film. Almost impossible to categorise, the Berlin-based studio was founded by German architect Henrik Mauler and American...
The Edit
Everyone imagined the alien invasion would look like Independence Day, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but when it really came, it was much more subtle. You didn't realise they'd taken over until it was too late. The emojis are among us, and...
The Edit
What is New York artist Jordan Wolfson saying with his violently brilliant new work, Colored Sculpture? The single, and singular, sculptural work is the sole ingredient of a current show at New York's David Zwirner gallery; and is an eerie...
Dispatches
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Photoshop entered the contemporary lexicon as a verb, it feels like it's been there forever, but the transition from industry-standard image editing software to household name was surely expedited by the fashion...
The Edit
Upon the surprising teenage realisation that headphones and microphones are basically the same thing but back to front, my bedroom band and I recorded our clattering noise through one half of a broken set of the former. We blew every speaker our...
Journal
It’s 2012, and Enric Palau, co-founder of of Barcelona-based international electronic music behemoth Sónar, is — in an interview with Spin — rebuffing a criticism that has increasingly been levelled at the festival over recent years: their...
Dispatches
Microsoft’s ongoing Music x Technology program has announced a collaboration with alt-pop goddess Grimes; debuting at music, art, and tech festival, Moogfest, between 19—22 May. Claire 'Grimes' Boucher is one of the headliners at the...
The Edit
'I'm gonna send him to outta space to find another race.' I don't know what an iron shirt is, but Max Romeo was donning one as he and his Upsetters chased the devil outta Ert. The 1976 reggae track was immortalised into popular culture when those...
City Notes
Having owned a three level car park in Melbourne’s CBD for around a decade, James Fry decided he wanted to do something a little bit outside the norm, something different for a city that revels in being different; after banding around ideas of a...
Stuff Crush
With the re-emergence and newfound popularity of the white sneaker, an enduring style staple, the trainer has recently made a confident comeback. But while popular, many share an almost identical aesthetic, often lacking in originality. This is...
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...
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...
