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The Edit
Three stages across three nights; some of the world's leading design talent sharing their secrets; installations and live-artwork; and a market that will elevate your senses with games, craft beers, street food—and a whopping great big shiny disco...
The Edit
Receiving acclaim this summer from many of those who keep the spirit of rave alive, Sweet Harmony: Rave | Today is an immersive exhibition celebrating the birth of a monumental scene and its impact on youth culture today. Matthew Smith, Anti...
Dispatches
Face directly to camera. White background. Glasses removed. The mundane list for capturing a suitable passport picture seems endless; something that Namibian-German visual artist Max Siedentopf set about exploring in his latest body of work....
Journal
Less than a year after finishing high school, at just 18, Chuck Anderson launched his own creative studio. Three years later and he’d produced the photography and design for Lupe Fiasco's Grammy-nominated album Food & Liquor; the distinctive...
The Edit
Curated by Roger Gastman—with Sacha Jenkins SHR, Evan Pricco, and David CHINO Villorente as co-curators—BEYOND THE STREETS has been making its mark in the city where it all began; the New York exhibition of graffiti, street art and urban...
Journal
Receiving a Renaissance humanist education in Antwerp, beginning an apprenticeship with Flemish painter Tobias Verhaeght aged 14, Peter Paul Rubens was one of those great polymaths; the like of who that term should be reserved for. A true master...
London
The School of Life has—in collaboration with architects Sash Scott and Tamsin Hanke alongside founder Alain de Botton—undergone a simple yet elegant refurbishment of its Bloomsbury shop; marrying form and function, craftily creating additional...
Publications
One of the finest looking books you will have the pleasure of flicking through in quite some time, Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day—a publication comprising 200 pages of pen-on-paper illustration with digital coloration, 48 with neon pantones—is the...
Journal
“During my time there, I met people with a global mindset and a local go-make attitude,” explains Luca Ponticelli, having just returned from D.A.T.E. (Discover Antwerp Through Experience)’s birthday edition, which saw the London-based designer...
Dispatches
It’s always the quiet ones, they say. As far as off-the-radar goes, Northumberland is as close as it gets. In every sense. The northernmost county of England, it is tucked right up on the country’s north east, bordering Scotland and the bracing...
Fashion
Following the tragic earthquake that hit the island of Lombok, Indonesia, on 5 August 2018—a disaster that created widespread damage and, owing to a succession of further earthquakes throughout the month, a loss of 563 lives—countless survivors...
Publications
Providing a compelling and often touching insight into the world of a group of Travellers living underneath the Westway, a two-and-a-half-mile elevated dual carriageway connecting the London Inner Ring Road to the suburbs west of the city, Urban...
City Notes
“A masterclass in conceptuality,” a hotel that “takes you on a fuzzy trip of vague recollection,” and “a paradise of inimitable escapism.” That’s what we said about Port de Sóller’s impressive Bikini Island & Mountain Hotel three...
City Notes
Hidden in the quiet heart of rural Spain, La Torre del Visco Hotel offers unrivalled luxury and adventures walking in a shepherd’s footsteps across the ancient Aragonese landscape that once inspired Picasso… In the early 20th century,...
City Notes
The world’s first StandardX hotel has opened in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the offshoot of the renowned global The Standard hotels, officially touted as the brand’s “rebellious younger sibling” with an offering of “intuitive hospitality without...
Stuff Crush
See captivating, never-before-published photographs of 1970s and '80s USA cultural hotspots including New York City, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami Beach and more in Street Walker, a new publication from revered street photographer and...
Dispatches
Stand-up comedy has given several up-and-coming performers their way from the legends. Examples of famous stand-up comedians who honed in their craft for success at top comedy clubs are Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Taylor...
Dispatches
The purpose of nursing homes is to provide older people at risk with the care and attention they require in a secure setting. For some residents, however, the truth is unsettling: abuse by doctors and other medical professionals. Nursing home...
Dispatches
China, the United States of America, and Japan do it again, the three powerhouses ranking 1st, 2nd and 3rd for the fourth consecutive year in the A’ Design Awards' World Design Rankings. Using a slick methodology for ranking countries, the...
Dispatches
It's important to pick the right company to clean your air ducts so that your home stays healthy and safe. When your air ducts are clean, the air quality inside your home is better, which is good for everyone's health. But how do you choose which...