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After a crazy day running around London on Thursday, I finally managed to get to Pick Me Up at Somerset House. Now in its third year, the UK’s first annual contemporary graphic art fair and festival had a slightly different feel to it this year....
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Right. Sit up. Everything down. Eyes on me. If you haven’t heard of the mighty Insect, then you will most certainly possess some of his work – if, that is, you buy music. Master illustrator, oddball image maker, surrealist and auteur, Luke...
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You may have seen a curious pair of eyes ogling you as you walk from the John Peel Stage into the Dance Village at Glastonbury, you may well have seen 'octopied' buildings as far and wide as Taiwan - Filthy Luker's large-scale 'art attacks' have...
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Comprising the works of Stephen Burks, Rama Chorpash, Michele Oka Doner, Sebastian Errazuriz, Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, John Paul Philippe, James Salaiz, Suzanne Tick, and Mark Welsh - all of whom call the city in question home - New York, New York,...
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Hong Kong-based Peony Yip is a young lady with high standards. Her effortless illustration work is both delicately beautiful, and whimsically haunting. It's inspirational stuff, but she still refers to herself as an “imperfect amateur” - we had...
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The multidisciplinary artist Chrissie Abbott has created several film work installations that occupy DreamBagsJaguarShoes, the tiny bar slash gallery on Kingsland Road. Projecting 'interior landscapes' using infinity mirrors, GIFs, and shots of...
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Propagating visions of fantasy as real-life, and real-life as fantasy - the world of the fashion mag is a conflation of pop culture imagery, distanced reality, consumerism and ideologies. In short; they flood you with images of mass culture,...
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Conceived whilst commuting by bicycle through Paris' Champ de Mars; Oklahom-born, Paris-based artist/designer/photographer Taylor Holland's Eurobus series examines the bright, bold, brilliant and brutish world of European touring bus graphic...
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New York artist Inna Babaeva creates elegantly disturbed sculptures and object interventions; her works with expandable foam conjure up visions of organic life-forms, perhaps colour-obsessed alien diseases - molesting their subjects with wildly...
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Helen Lang creates limited edition prints that can’t help but make you smile, bringing a little bit of happiness into the lives of anyone who even sees one, let alone those who are lucky enough to own one....
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Looking somewhere between the chaotic remnants of a particularly wild party - you know, the sort the kids on Skins throw weekly - or a deeply unsettling supernatural intervention; LAST NEW YEAR is a bewilderingly brilliant series of installations by...
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We've featured shanty-towns turned multicoloured visual banquets before - here and here - and you'll no doubt be familiar with German designer Axel Peemoeller's Felice Varini-inspired anamorphic wayfinding system for Eureka Car Park in Melbourne....
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
City Notes
With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
City Notes
With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
Dispatches
Starting a home-based embroidery business can be an exciting and rewarding venture, offering a range of opportunities to tap into the custom apparel, gifts, and home decor markets. But, one of the most important decisions you’ll make when...
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Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Nine: Emotional Fitness Coaching. As the concept of wellness evolves, so too does our understanding of mental...
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Minimalism and elegance, too, are gaining fast as popular choices for serene, sophisticated interiors. Simplicity, clean lines, and curative approaches to decor are all that these two styles are made of, bringing home really calm and clarity within...
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Finding the best Botox experts in Toronto can feel overwhelming, given the many options available. To focus your search, consider professionals with extensive experience and positive client reviews. A key step in identifying top specialists is...