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Los Angeles
Everyone loves cupcakes. Since their revival began in New York at Bleecker Street's Magnolia Bakery in the mid-90s, the 21st century cupcake phenomena has swept the globe with calorie-laden abundance. We simply can't get enough of diving face-first...
Food & Drink
Sublime in both its originality and gloriously refined aesthetic, Seppl - a porcelain espresso machine concept by Arvid Häusser, a student at Germany's Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - is the sort of prototype that stops you in your tracks. You just...
Journal
Four years in the making, Metropolis II - by American artist Chris Burden - is a breathtaking piece of work, on many levels. Burden's gigantic kinetic installation may not be the prettiest work showing in an art gallery, but the sheer scale of...
Journal
Ah, 80s teen films. Time travelling Deloreans, basketball playing werewolves and the coolest bedrooms known to man. Boy those American kids sure had awesome bedrooms. And now, it seems - as we fast forward a few decades - Brazilians have them too....
Journal
Dealing with the issues of data accessibility, internet privacy, our willing online exhibitionism and the constant flood of information; Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay - students at Germany's University of Visual Arts and Design Kassel - have...
Journal
The successful and internationally renowned digital arts collaboration between the V&A and onedotzero, Decode: Digital Design Sensations, has recently opened at Israel's breathtaking Design Museum Holon; designer Ron Arad's mesmerising mountain of...
Journal
As our lives continue to revolve increasingly around online content, there's a growing trend for apps and inventions that integrate our offline worlds with our online worlds. But, as televisions are tweeting and cars are wirelessly syncing, Leonardo...
Journal
Our curiosity got the better of us when Sony Ericsson invited us to Amsterdam to "test drive" their new Xperia arc S. With a slight pang of guilt for our beloved iPhones, we dropped everything and forty minutes later landed in the heart of the...
Journal
Delicate and dreamlike, this mesmerising stop motion sculpture is as captivating a clip as we've seen of late. Commissioned by Melbourne's 'love it or loathe it' cultural destination; Federation Square, this ingenious amalgamation of sculpture and...
Journal
At the tail end of last year we featured (n)arcissus - another, equally organic, light-based installation - from New York studio SOFTlab. They've been at it again, plunging the weird and wonderful creatures at the depths of the darkest oceans, for...
Journal
Urban Prairie is an intuitive and interactive shop window display inspired by a reduction of green spaces in cities due to the rapid rate of urbanisation. Conceived and designed by London architecture firm In Square Lab - in collaboration with post...
Journal
Since being appointed Ford of Europe's Exterior Design Director at the beginning of 2005 the former chief designer at Opel/GM, Cologne-based Stefan Lamm, has been responsible for the design of innovative concept cars like the iosis, iosis X and the...
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
Poppers are entering their second renaissance period. They’re as popular as ever. Seemingly every couple of weeks another company pops up trying to innovate with their own spin on those little brown bottles. While we’re getting new formulas...
Dispatches
With every step, stretch, and movement we make, our bodies are performing an act of self-care. While physical activity has long been touted as essential for maintaining fitness, a new wellness paradigm is emerging that emphasizes movement as an...
Dispatches
Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Two: Hormone Balancing. In today’s wellness landscape, hormone health is increasingly coming to the forefront...
Dispatches
Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number One: Sleep Tourism. In a world that’s never quite switched off, sleep has become both a luxury and a necessity...