Embracing conflicts
I am messy. Maybe messy is the wrong word… not tidy I think is better, it doesn’t carry with it the same smelly connotations. My brain is quite skittish and random, lots of collisions of ideas and...
View ArticleA playboy for today?
Playboy is attempting to reach a younger audience and ‘re-assert itself into American youth culture’ through a series of specially-commissioned art projects. The first is a giant installation by the...
View ArticleAll aboard the art train
Galleries don’t have to be in big, grand buildings. Or even in buildings at all. Station to Station is a cargo-train-cum-gallery, which displays works of art as it travels across the US. Conceived by...
View ArticleMoment to moment
Levi’s sub-brand Made & Crafted has just released their first edition of Moment to Moment, a magazine created in partnership with super-cool quarterly publication THE THING. The project is rolling...
View ArticleUnexpected item in the baggage area
There goes that suitcase with the ribbons tied round the handle. Again. And again. And again. Waiting for your luggage at the airport is rarely fun – especially if it’s 5am and you’ve just queued for...
View ArticleLost for words
“It’s only words,” Barry, Robin and Maurice told us in 1968. But it seems words have stirred up a whole hornets’ nest over in Sydney where the Museum of Words has been hitting the headlines for all the...
View ArticleDirect male
Move over Queenie, there’s a new stamp in town. Itella, the Finnish postal service, has just announced the launch of a range of Tom of Finland stamps, celebrating the ‘proud homoeroticism’ of the...
View ArticleThe day I won a Warhol
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAm8nZHoCgk Perhaps more closely associated with canned soup than Swedish vodka, the spirit of Andy Warhol lives on in the latest collaboration from Absolut....
View ArticleMINIartbeat
Beep beep! If you’re in London, keep a lookout for a MINI with a difference. Covered in over 48,000 high-res LEDs, this one-of-a-kind car is driving round London throughout August displaying live...
View ArticleTypographic takeover
Everyone’s at it. Collaborations that is. And why wouldn’t you? They’re a great opportunity for brands to do something innovative and unexpected, capturing the attention of fans both new and old. And...
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