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Secret café
Brazilian architect Alan Chu has designed The Gourmet Tea – a tea shop that’s hidden within a São Paulo shopping centre. The tea shop, the third to open in the region, is inspired by the brand’s...
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Drops of inspiration
Airport terminals can be soul-destroying places at the best of times, with little to distract you from the prospect of a long flight. If only more airports were like Singapore’s Changi Airport Terminal...
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Human pantone
Believe it or not, every visit to the chemist/drugstore entails some subtle racial undertones. Check out the product descriptions, next time you’re there – from ‘skin-tone’ band-aids/plasters to ‘nude’...
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A city gone soft
I’ve arrived back in Melbourne after being away for four years in London. It’s good to be back with friends and family. It’s good to be back and see the old ‘hood with hipsters making great coffee and...
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The exquisite forest
This is an online collaborative project from Aaron Koblin and Chris Milk. Produced by Tate and Google, and about to be installed at Tate Modern, it allows people to create their own animations. The...
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The art of drinking
Never ones to shy away from a tequila-centric gathering, some of the Elmwood New York folks attended the launch party for the latest 1800® Tequila ‘Essential Artists’ series. Now in its fourth series,...
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‘I still love NY’
Sebastian Errazuriz’s studio was paralysed after the hurricane. Unable to work and tired of watching the horrible disaster unfold on the news, Errazuriz decided to design something to help raise...
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Republic spaces
Entrepreneurial artists and designers have found e-commerce sites like Etsy and Bonanza invaluable when building up their brands and selling their stuff. But as far as having physical spaces for...
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Mini-me in 3D
Startup Mixee Me want to make 3D printing accessible to everybody. (Thanks, Chris Loud) Their software enables you to design your own Mixee figurines with their online editor, choosing the hair, eyes,...
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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...
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A 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...
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All 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...
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Moment 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...
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Unexpected 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...
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Lost 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...
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Direct 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...
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The 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....
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MINIartbeat
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...
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Typographic 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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