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Five Sights at the London Festival of Architecture
(03 July 2008) - Hairywood in Covent Garden Piazza The celebrated collaboration between 6a Architects and fashion designers Eley Kishimoto has been reconstructed for 2008 and placed in London's busiest public square. The decorative tower (above left), inspired by both Rapunzel and Jaques Tati, created a buzz in 2005 when it appeared peeping over Old Street. Take some time out to rise above the chaos, go sit in...
(03 July 2008) - Hairywood in Covent Garden Piazza The celebrated collaboration between 6a Architects and fashion designers Eley Kishimoto has been reconstructed for 2008 and placed in London's busiest public square. The decorative tower (above left), inspired by both Rapunzel and Jaques Tati, created a buzz in 2005 when it appeared peeping over Old Street. Take some time out to rise above the chaos, go sit in...
Charles Cumming: The 21 Steps
(03 April 2008) - "The 21 Steps" is a fast-paced, finely-tuned thriller that uses Google Maps to take the reader through the story's events. Written by British purveyor of spy thrillers, Charles Cumming, the story is told through Google's information bubbles with brief statements and images that take the reader from the streets of London to Edinburgh, Scotland with plenty of action and mini-cliffhangers along the way. "The...
(03 April 2008) - "The 21 Steps" is a fast-paced, finely-tuned thriller that uses Google Maps to take the reader through the story's events. Written by British purveyor of spy thrillers, Charles Cumming, the story is told through Google's information bubbles with brief statements and images that take the reader from the streets of London to Edinburgh, Scotland with plenty of action and mini-cliffhangers along the way. "The...
Angry Christmas Crackers
(13 December 2007) - The Ireland-based design company Angry have created their own take on the traditional Christmas cracker. Each cracker contains materials to create a felt hat, which come in several colors can be customized using the included scissors. Also included within the crackers are jokes written by Angry's own Mike Ahern and one inch pins that say phrases like " Turkey Please" "One More Sprout" and...
(13 December 2007) - The Ireland-based design company Angry have created their own take on the traditional Christmas cracker. Each cracker contains materials to create a felt hat, which come in several colors can be customized using the included scissors. Also included within the crackers are jokes written by Angry's own Mike Ahern and one inch pins that say phrases like " Turkey Please" "One More Sprout" and...
Peter Marigold: Make/Shift Shelving
(26 January 2007) - I first met Peter Marigold at Disturbance last Spring, which was a showcase for design students from the Royal College of Art at London's Great Eastern Hotel. Even though I didn't write about it at the time, I was really impressed by Peter's design for a shelving system where individual wedge-shaped units slot together and expand to fill the space in which they're used....
(26 January 2007) - I first met Peter Marigold at Disturbance last Spring, which was a showcase for design students from the Royal College of Art at London's Great Eastern Hotel. Even though I didn't write about it at the time, I was really impressed by Peter's design for a shelving system where individual wedge-shaped units slot together and expand to fill the space in which they're used....
Matthew Herbert: Nugroove vol. 6
(12 January 2007) - Matthew Herbert, one of the U.K.'s most lauded, often overlooked and hardest-to-categorize electronic musicians grabbed major attention last year with the release of Scale, a critically-acclaimed album that includes over 700 samples of ambient noises like birds, gas pumps, breakfast cereal, coffins, mobile phones and babies crying, as well as voice mails left on "Herbert's Hotline," a phone he set up for the project....
(12 January 2007) - Matthew Herbert, one of the U.K.'s most lauded, often overlooked and hardest-to-categorize electronic musicians grabbed major attention last year with the release of Scale, a critically-acclaimed album that includes over 700 samples of ambient noises like birds, gas pumps, breakfast cereal, coffins, mobile phones and babies crying, as well as voice mails left on "Herbert's Hotline," a phone he set up for the project....
Airside Popup Shop
(29 November 2006) - London design studio Airside has always had a close relationship with music, thanks mainly to director Fred Deakin who is one half of technicolor twosome Lemon Jelly. For the festive season, the firm has a pop-up shop in London's Covent Garden, bearing the Wham-punning name, Last Christmas I Gave You My Art. All the stuff, like t-shirts and badges, that you can pick up...
(29 November 2006) - London design studio Airside has always had a close relationship with music, thanks mainly to director Fred Deakin who is one half of technicolor twosome Lemon Jelly. For the festive season, the firm has a pop-up shop in London's Covent Garden, bearing the Wham-punning name, Last Christmas I Gave You My Art. All the stuff, like t-shirts and badges, that you can pick up...
Oliver Spencer New York
(03 November 2006) - New York's West Village has just gotten a sartorial upgrade, English style, with the recent opening of the first Oliver Spencer boutique in the US. The boutique is a joint venture between Spencer and the team behind New York's hip Odin boutiques. For over a decade, English gents and international superstars have had the privilege of donning Spencer's sleek, modern look. Now his latest...
(03 November 2006) - New York's West Village has just gotten a sartorial upgrade, English style, with the recent opening of the first Oliver Spencer boutique in the US. The boutique is a joint venture between Spencer and the team behind New York's hip Odin boutiques. For over a decade, English gents and international superstars have had the privilege of donning Spencer's sleek, modern look. Now his latest...
Browns Focus London and Acne Jeans Stockholm Swap Up
(01 November 2006) - It's one thing swapping clothes with a friend to extend your wardrobe for a while, but it's quite another swapping clothes stores with a like-minded brand to extend your reach to another country. That's what London store Browns Focus (above left) has done with the Stockholm studio of Acne Jeans (above right), lock, stock and barrel. For ten days (only until this weekend), Browns...
(01 November 2006) - It's one thing swapping clothes with a friend to extend your wardrobe for a while, but it's quite another swapping clothes stores with a like-minded brand to extend your reach to another country. That's what London store Browns Focus (above left) has done with the Stockholm studio of Acne Jeans (above right), lock, stock and barrel. For ten days (only until this weekend), Browns...
Paul Smith x Mercian Cycles
(01 November 2006) - Paul Smith, who decided on a career in fashion after a serious bicycle accident when he was 17 prevented him from pursuing his dream of being a professional cyclist, still rides his old Mercian bicycle. He loves his bicycle so much that he was inspired to design these serious new bikes. Announced a few months back, the Paul Smith x Mercian collaboration bikes are...
(01 November 2006) - Paul Smith, who decided on a career in fashion after a serious bicycle accident when he was 17 prevented him from pursuing his dream of being a professional cyclist, still rides his old Mercian bicycle. He loves his bicycle so much that he was inspired to design these serious new bikes. Announced a few months back, the Paul Smith x Mercian collaboration bikes are...
Bethan Laura Wood
(30 October 2006) - Like a true Brit, Bethan Laura Wood enjoys a good cup of tea. Like a true product designer, she's obviously spent a lot of time thinking about vessels for drinking tea and rituals surrounding the tradition. The results are a beautiful series of tea cups that caught my eye at last month's 100% East exhibition in London. Delicate white porcelain cups create predetermined patterns...
(30 October 2006) - Like a true Brit, Bethan Laura Wood enjoys a good cup of tea. Like a true product designer, she's obviously spent a lot of time thinking about vessels for drinking tea and rituals surrounding the tradition. The results are a beautiful series of tea cups that caught my eye at last month's 100% East exhibition in London. Delicate white porcelain cups create predetermined patterns...
The 50th London Film Festival
(19 October 2006) - The 50th anniversary London Film Festival kicked off last night with the superb The Last King of Scotland (pictured right). It may not be immediately obvious from the title, but it's about African despot Idi Amin, who ruled, and ruined, Uganda in the 1970s. Forest Whittaker plays Amin, in a performance that should earn him at least an Oscar nomination. Rising Scottish star James...
(19 October 2006) - The 50th anniversary London Film Festival kicked off last night with the superb The Last King of Scotland (pictured right). It may not be immediately obvious from the title, but it's about African despot Idi Amin, who ruled, and ruined, Uganda in the 1970s. Forest Whittaker plays Amin, in a performance that should earn him at least an Oscar nomination. Rising Scottish star James...
Juliet Rose
(18 October 2006) - The spare key, a couple of nails, ring pulls from drink cans, safety pins and more safety pins… For most, all those odd bits and pieces that gather in bowls and boxes and on tabletops are just the seemingly insignificant but endless debris of everyday life. For British artist Juliet Rose, clutter is the subject of her strikingly graphic paintings. Carefully arranging these inane...
(18 October 2006) - The spare key, a couple of nails, ring pulls from drink cans, safety pins and more safety pins… For most, all those odd bits and pieces that gather in bowls and boxes and on tabletops are just the seemingly insignificant but endless debris of everyday life. For British artist Juliet Rose, clutter is the subject of her strikingly graphic paintings. Carefully arranging these inane...
Drop Dead Rug
(16 October 2006) - Inspired by old crime TV, the Drop Dead Rug prototype by British designer Alex Carpenter was such a hit at the London Design Festival in 2005 that Alex will take it into production soon. Mimicking the shape "of an unfortunate soul which may have come to pass right there on your living room floor with their silhouette remaining as evidence," the throw will be...
(16 October 2006) - Inspired by old crime TV, the Drop Dead Rug prototype by British designer Alex Carpenter was such a hit at the London Design Festival in 2005 that Alex will take it into production soon. Mimicking the shape "of an unfortunate soul which may have come to pass right there on your living room floor with their silhouette remaining as evidence," the throw will be...
Ryan McGinness in Europe
(12 October 2006) - Master of silhouetted graphics (and perhaps the hardest working man in the art world) Ryan McGinness currently has a series of three solo shows called “NEVERODDOREVEN,” which are taking place across Western Europe this fall. At Curti/Gambuzzi in Milan the installation is in full swing and will be up through 3 November 2006 (pictured right, photos courtesy of Paolo Curti & Annamaria Gambuzzi &...
(12 October 2006) - Master of silhouetted graphics (and perhaps the hardest working man in the art world) Ryan McGinness currently has a series of three solo shows called “NEVERODDOREVEN,” which are taking place across Western Europe this fall. At Curti/Gambuzzi in Milan the installation is in full swing and will be up through 3 November 2006 (pictured right, photos courtesy of Paolo Curti & Annamaria Gambuzzi &...
yeastCulture
(10 October 2006) - How to describe yeastCulture? They are Mark Silver and Nick Hillel. They make stunning music videos for the likes of Nitin Sawhney and Jamie Cullum. In fact, they came up with the live visuals currently accompanying the aforementioned jazz-Hobbit on his North American tour. They can do it off-the-cuff too, and have VJ'd for artists as varied as the Beastie Boys and Matthew Herbert,...
(10 October 2006) - How to describe yeastCulture? They are Mark Silver and Nick Hillel. They make stunning music videos for the likes of Nitin Sawhney and Jamie Cullum. In fact, they came up with the live visuals currently accompanying the aforementioned jazz-Hobbit on his North American tour. They can do it off-the-cuff too, and have VJ'd for artists as varied as the Beastie Boys and Matthew Herbert,...
Various Productions: The World Is Gone
(04 October 2006) - Admittedly this one's been a secret weapon in my DJ bag since I found it in the "Dubstep" bin at London's Rough Trade back in August, but seeing as how it's gotten little press stateside and it's due for a CD release in the U.S. 24 October 2006, perhaps it's time I shared... Various are truly enigmatic. Without any credits or liner notes on...
(04 October 2006) - Admittedly this one's been a secret weapon in my DJ bag since I found it in the "Dubstep" bin at London's Rough Trade back in August, but seeing as how it's gotten little press stateside and it's due for a CD release in the U.S. 24 October 2006, perhaps it's time I shared... Various are truly enigmatic. Without any credits or liner notes on...
Spank the Monkey
(27 September 2006) - The graffiti equivalent of the super heroes’ Justice League of America, the group show “Spank the Monkey,” opens today, Wednesday, 27 September 2006, at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Featuring some of CH’s favorite artists, including Chiho Aoshima, Dzine, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Freaks Gallery, Os Gemeos, Groovisions, Invader, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Takashi Murakami, David Shrigley, Swoon, Ed Templeton,...
(27 September 2006) - The graffiti equivalent of the super heroes’ Justice League of America, the group show “Spank the Monkey,” opens today, Wednesday, 27 September 2006, at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Featuring some of CH’s favorite artists, including Chiho Aoshima, Dzine, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Freaks Gallery, Os Gemeos, Groovisions, Invader, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Takashi Murakami, David Shrigley, Swoon, Ed Templeton,...
Reverse Graffiti
(18 September 2006) - At first, anger seems an unlikely reaction to somebody scrubbing away dirt from filthy city walls and tunnels, but that's been the case in England as British authorities and bloggers alike have been unsure of how to react to Reverse Graffiti, a graffiti technique that emerged in 2003. The work of Paul “Moose” Curtis in Leeds, England, like writing “Wash Me” on the window...
(18 September 2006) - At first, anger seems an unlikely reaction to somebody scrubbing away dirt from filthy city walls and tunnels, but that's been the case in England as British authorities and bloggers alike have been unsure of how to react to Reverse Graffiti, a graffiti technique that emerged in 2003. The work of Paul “Moose” Curtis in Leeds, England, like writing “Wash Me” on the window...
Ten Things to See at the London Design Festival
(15 September 2006) - Kicking off today, the London Design Festival is a two-week extravaganza with a bewildering array of shows, exhibitions, seminars and general hobnobbing, big names, young talent, highly commercial offerings, as well as work which is so conceptual we’re not really sure if it’s even design. As we reported earlier this week Icon Magazine published a guide, but to make it even easier, here are...
(15 September 2006) - Kicking off today, the London Design Festival is a two-week extravaganza with a bewildering array of shows, exhibitions, seminars and general hobnobbing, big names, young talent, highly commercial offerings, as well as work which is so conceptual we’re not really sure if it’s even design. As we reported earlier this week Icon Magazine published a guide, but to make it even easier, here are...
Body Bag Tees
(11 September 2006) - Urbanity, moreTvicar, or the Style Guru. ...
(11 September 2006) - Urbanity, moreTvicar, or the Style Guru. ...
The Fratellis
(04 September 2006) - The Fratellis are a slightly cartoonish trio called Mince, Barry and Jon who have been touring the UK solidly since the Spring and are now reaping the rewards with their latest single Chelsea Dagger. They deserve it. It's a perfect slice of British, glam-tinged, swaggering power pop with a great rumbling bassline and do-do-do singalong chorus. Previous releases Creeping Up The Backstairs and Henrietta...
(04 September 2006) - The Fratellis are a slightly cartoonish trio called Mince, Barry and Jon who have been touring the UK solidly since the Spring and are now reaping the rewards with their latest single Chelsea Dagger. They deserve it. It's a perfect slice of British, glam-tinged, swaggering power pop with a great rumbling bassline and do-do-do singalong chorus. Previous releases Creeping Up The Backstairs and Henrietta...
MINI White Rabbit
(29 August 2006) - To celebrate the MINI Cooper and its British heritage UK agency Profero created a Follow the White Rabbit banner ad campaign. Starting on sites like Urban Junkies click-thrus on the MINI banner ad take you on a fascinating random tour of British culture sites—the white MINI staying with you through the journey. Start here....
(29 August 2006) - To celebrate the MINI Cooper and its British heritage UK agency Profero created a Follow the White Rabbit banner ad campaign. Starting on sites like Urban Junkies click-thrus on the MINI banner ad take you on a fascinating random tour of British culture sites—the white MINI staying with you through the journey. Start here....
Bugz in the Attic: Back in the Doghouse
(17 August 2006) - Formed in 1996, the pioneering, now eight-member collective of underground dance music, Bugz in the Attic, bring their full ass-motivating arsenal, garnered from 10 years of single releases and classic remixes, on their long-overdue first full-length release, Back in the Dog House. With close to 100 songs already under their belt—both originals and reworkings for a diverse range of internationally known artists, including Zero...
(17 August 2006) - Formed in 1996, the pioneering, now eight-member collective of underground dance music, Bugz in the Attic, bring their full ass-motivating arsenal, garnered from 10 years of single releases and classic remixes, on their long-overdue first full-length release, Back in the Dog House. With close to 100 songs already under their belt—both originals and reworkings for a diverse range of internationally known artists, including Zero...
The Warehouse Project
(15 August 2006) - Until now, urban music festivals have largely stuck to the template laid down by their rural equivalents, with bands and DJs playing in big marquees in an open space like Hyde Park instead of one in Somerset. The Warehouse Project looks like it's set to turn the whole thing on its head, and not just because it's happening outside of summer. It comes to...
(15 August 2006) - Until now, urban music festivals have largely stuck to the template laid down by their rural equivalents, with bands and DJs playing in big marquees in an open space like Hyde Park instead of one in Somerset. The Warehouse Project looks like it's set to turn the whole thing on its head, and not just because it's happening outside of summer. It comes to...
Kimchi
(14 August 2006) - Kimchi, a London-based line of accessories, pulls it off with a collection of leather goods printed with their own nature-inspired patterns. Flowers and leaves intertwined with delicate sweeping lines and curlicues adorn wallets, coin purses, clutches, shoulder bags, and belts. Many designs feature metallic overlays, hand-printed details, and pockets and most are made from supple leathers cut in modern, appealing shapes. You can order through...
(14 August 2006) - Kimchi, a London-based line of accessories, pulls it off with a collection of leather goods printed with their own nature-inspired patterns. Flowers and leaves intertwined with delicate sweeping lines and curlicues adorn wallets, coin purses, clutches, shoulder bags, and belts. Many designs feature metallic overlays, hand-printed details, and pockets and most are made from supple leathers cut in modern, appealing shapes. You can order through...
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