When Storytelling becomes a reality, an identity… With branding by GBH (Gregory Bonner Hale) and interiors by Philippe Starck, ‘Miss Kō’ is inspired by the character’s imagined ‘world’. The Asian fusion restaurant opened recently in Paris, is described by GBH as “…the future; a place where cultures collide, fantasy rules and nothing is what it … Continue reading
Continuing the David Bowie theme… Heroes …one of our favourites. Happy Wednesday. Continue reading
Pop icon David Robert Jones is one of the most influential performers of modern times and is being celebrated with the first international retrospective in London, UK. You may not know him by that name, so how about The Thin White Duke…? The Starman…? Ziggy Stardust…? If not, then David Bowie? Ah. Curated by the … Continue reading
There is an unrest, a revolt happening in the market place; a demonatisation, right under the very noses of the governing institutions of what is surely becoming an ‘old world’ money system, gripping hold of our current economies as they roller-coaster ever dangerously close to, if not over, the edge. But no apple carts are … Continue reading
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight for a very long time, of the shore. – Andre Gide, ‘Les Faux-monnayeurs’ 1925 Continue reading
Kick back… after all, it is the weekend! If you haven’t already seen Exit Through the Gift Shop it’s a must; in the meantime enjoy the trailer of the Banksy biopic (or as close to a biopic as the elusive street artist allows), filmed by Thierry Guetta and narrated by the inimitable Rhys Ifans; music … Continue reading
If you can remember a time before Instagram, there was – and still very much, is – another way of making photographs all nostalgia-tinged, sunshiney and imbued with an ambience that playfully whispers ‘my life is definitely cooler and more fun than yours.’ If you haven’t got on board the Lomo train and you’re in … Continue reading
This project for a Waste-to-Energy Ski Slope in Copenhagen by architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), lept to our attention as it combines three of our favourite subjects; snow sports, design and sustainability awareness! Finally breaking ground on 4th March 2013, the Amagerforbrændingen as it’s known, will take the city’s waste and burn it to create … Continue reading
Massoud Hassani’s Mine Kafon project came to our attention earlier last year, having tuned in via the powerful and beautifully filmed short by Callum Cooper. We learned how a child’s wistful imagination had produced a humble wind-powered toy which, along with it’s owner had ‘grown up’, into an idea that could potentially save lives by helping clear landmines in … Continue reading
The series of mechanical jewellery by artist/designer Jennifer Crupi encourages gesture. Various iterations of the concept force an action – such as the ‘power gesture’ which requires the user to assume the authoritative ‘steepled fingers’, or the ‘leg bouncer (stress expresser)’ which focuses on the anxious tick. The pieces amplify habits and positions we engage … Continue reading
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