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The London Design Challenge
(18 September 2006) - A participatory highlight of London's Design Festival, the London Design Challenge tasks members of the design community and general public with imagining ways to make London a better place to live and visit. With transport, entertainment, street-life, environment and housing themes, ideas so far include Poke's painting London white (an homage to This Boy's Life?), as well as Tom Dixon's electric bus and Barbara...
(18 September 2006) - A participatory highlight of London's Design Festival, the London Design Challenge tasks members of the design community and general public with imagining ways to make London a better place to live and visit. With transport, entertainment, street-life, environment and housing themes, ideas so far include Poke's painting London white (an homage to This Boy's Life?), as well as Tom Dixon's electric bus and Barbara...
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...
Jaime Hayón
(13 September 2006) - Designer, artist, illustrator, and ceramicist Jaime Hayón's upcoming solo exhibition and seminar at London's Design Festival are must-sees. Jaime’s forms are decorative, fluid and sensuous and his objects and products always have a luxurious feel—whether a highly glossy vase, a smoothly polished metal lamp, or deliciously upholstered leather chair. This year he won Elle Decor's Best Bathroom award for his beautifully seductive designs produced...
(13 September 2006) - Designer, artist, illustrator, and ceramicist Jaime Hayón's upcoming solo exhibition and seminar at London's Design Festival are must-sees. Jaime’s forms are decorative, fluid and sensuous and his objects and products always have a luxurious feel—whether a highly glossy vase, a smoothly polished metal lamp, or deliciously upholstered leather chair. This year he won Elle Decor's Best Bathroom award for his beautifully seductive designs produced...
Morning Message Pillow
(12 September 2006) - Some of us are less than charming before we've had our morning coffee, but London-based designer James McAdam may have found a way to put an end to misdirected morning grumpiness. His Morning Message Pillow leaves the phrase "Good Morning Sweetheart" indented on your well-rested cheek. Playing on the common sight of cheeks imprinted with pillowcase wrinkles, It's a brilliant example of design that...
(12 September 2006) - Some of us are less than charming before we've had our morning coffee, but London-based designer James McAdam may have found a way to put an end to misdirected morning grumpiness. His Morning Message Pillow leaves the phrase "Good Morning Sweetheart" indented on your well-rested cheek. Playing on the common sight of cheeks imprinted with pillowcase wrinkles, It's a brilliant example of design that...
Maharishi Bonsai Championship Backgammon Set
(12 September 2006) - For long train rides or rainy days, Maharishi's new Backgammon set adds a little style to the classic antidote to boredom—and continues Maharishi's mission to liberate the pattern from military associations at the same time. Dressed up in their house bonsai forest camo, the game includes dice, playing pieces and dice rollers that come in a briefcase-style case that includes combination locks. The orange...
(12 September 2006) - For long train rides or rainy days, Maharishi's new Backgammon set adds a little style to the classic antidote to boredom—and continues Maharishi's mission to liberate the pattern from military associations at the same time. Dressed up in their house bonsai forest camo, the game includes dice, playing pieces and dice rollers that come in a briefcase-style case that includes combination locks. The orange...
Icon Guide to London Design
(12 September 2006) - The London Design Festival kicks off this Friday, 15 September 2006, and with it comes the necessity of deciding between the multitude of exciting design related events. Luckily, Icon Magazine once again has created a free suplement containing full listings of the 100 best events taking place in the city between 18-24 September, plus details of parties and openings and maps of the festival...
(12 September 2006) - The London Design Festival kicks off this Friday, 15 September 2006, and with it comes the necessity of deciding between the multitude of exciting design related events. Luckily, Icon Magazine once again has created a free suplement containing full listings of the 100 best events taking place in the city between 18-24 September, plus details of parties and openings and maps of the festival...
Bonfire of the Brands
(28 August 2006) - Neil Boorman is exactly the kind of bloke you would expect to see dressed from top-to-toe in labels. As founder of the Shoreditch Twat, DJ at London club 333 and a writer for The Guardian, brands that you or I might covet, from Apple to adidas, have decorated every part of his life. Until now. You see, he's decided to burn all of his...
(28 August 2006) - Neil Boorman is exactly the kind of bloke you would expect to see dressed from top-to-toe in labels. As founder of the Shoreditch Twat, DJ at London club 333 and a writer for The Guardian, brands that you or I might covet, from Apple to adidas, have decorated every part of his life. Until now. You see, he's decided to burn all of his...
Studio Visit: Ting
(21 August 2006) - A few weeks back, we posted a round-up of the bags for guys we most liked the look of, and at the very top of the list were those from London-based Ting. As a result, founding designer Inghua Ting got in touch and invite us round to her West End atelier for a visit. Tucked away behind Savile Row, the studio is stuffed full...
(21 August 2006) - A few weeks back, we posted a round-up of the bags for guys we most liked the look of, and at the very top of the list were those from London-based Ting. As a result, founding designer Inghua Ting got in touch and invite us round to her West End atelier for a visit. Tucked away behind Savile Row, the studio is stuffed full...
Yell.com Bus Ads
(17 August 2006) - To promote their UK based search engine Yell.com has launched an innovative campaign to show local content on buses and bus shelters. Designed by AKQA, touch screen displays on the shelters show near-by businesses. The more advanced solution is on the buses where GPS enabled displays promote businesses near where the bus is driving. via Adfreak ...
(17 August 2006) - To promote their UK based search engine Yell.com has launched an innovative campaign to show local content on buses and bus shelters. Designed by AKQA, touch screen displays on the shelters show near-by businesses. The more advanced solution is on the buses where GPS enabled displays promote businesses near where the bus is driving. via Adfreak ...
To Be Confirmed Spring/Summer 2007
(31 July 2006) - Despite calling itself the UK's casualwear trade show, To Be Confirmed has 300 brands from across the world. Showing next year's collections to buyers and journalists in East London right now, I went for a look over the weekend and have narrowed things down to a handful of names (mostly) from the UK that caught my eye. I'll post every day this week on...
(31 July 2006) - Despite calling itself the UK's casualwear trade show, To Be Confirmed has 300 brands from across the world. Showing next year's collections to buyers and journalists in East London right now, I went for a look over the weekend and have narrowed things down to a handful of names (mostly) from the UK that caught my eye. I'll post every day this week on...
Richard Sarson
(24 July 2006) - Richard Sarson is a recent graduate of London's Royal College of Art. Circles are a principal element of his design vocabulary as evidenced in several of his recent projects, which include The Circle Project, a recent series of drawings made with a compass and felt markers, Swim, a music video for U.K.-based band Fell City Girl, and a series of posters for the Royal...
(24 July 2006) - Richard Sarson is a recent graduate of London's Royal College of Art. Circles are a principal element of his design vocabulary as evidenced in several of his recent projects, which include The Circle Project, a recent series of drawings made with a compass and felt markers, Swim, a music video for U.K.-based band Fell City Girl, and a series of posters for the Royal...
Stanley Donwood London Views Jigsaw
(12 July 2006) - I think I like Thom Yorke better when he's with the rest of Radiohead, but I'm glad he's continued the long-term collaboration with Stanley Donwood for the artwork on "solo" album The Eraser. Donwood, aka Dan Rickwood, started creating the work called London Views, at the same time that Yorke began recording his album. Eventually it became a series of fourteen woodcut-style prints that...
(12 July 2006) - I think I like Thom Yorke better when he's with the rest of Radiohead, but I'm glad he's continued the long-term collaboration with Stanley Donwood for the artwork on "solo" album The Eraser. Donwood, aka Dan Rickwood, started creating the work called London Views, at the same time that Yorke began recording his album. Eventually it became a series of fourteen woodcut-style prints that...
Paul A. Young Fine Chocolates
(07 July 2006) - I've found the best chocolate brownie in London, and it's made by Paul A Young. After three years looking for the perfect space, Paul opened his boutique chocolaterie in Islington, North London in the Spring, and hasn't looked back. It helps that it's on Camden Passage - a street that's become a word-of-mouth favorite among North Londoners for of its eclectic vintage furniture shops,...
(07 July 2006) - I've found the best chocolate brownie in London, and it's made by Paul A Young. After three years looking for the perfect space, Paul opened his boutique chocolaterie in Islington, North London in the Spring, and hasn't looked back. It helps that it's on Camden Passage - a street that's become a word-of-mouth favorite among North Londoners for of its eclectic vintage furniture shops,...
Royal College of Art Summer Show 2006
(06 July 2006) - Having spent weeks talking to students and looking at the annual Royal College of Art degree show, Exhibit-K, a London-based art tour service, came up with five hot design picks exclusively for Cool Hunting. Doodle Dudes Andrew Haythornthwaite's Doodle Dudes gives the characters that children create in their drawings a 3-d life by using rapid prototyping to print their drawings in 3 dimensions. Children’s...
(06 July 2006) - Having spent weeks talking to students and looking at the annual Royal College of Art degree show, Exhibit-K, a London-based art tour service, came up with five hot design picks exclusively for Cool Hunting. Doodle Dudes Andrew Haythornthwaite's Doodle Dudes gives the characters that children create in their drawings a 3-d life by using rapid prototyping to print their drawings in 3 dimensions. Children’s...
New from Social Suicide
(19 June 2006) - Favorite fashion activists Social Suicide (originally shown here) have been hard at work on a few new additions to their line. Most noteworthy are Shark (above left, click to zoom) and Tat2 (above right, click to zoom). A gray woolen flannel suit with subtle pink gills on either side, Shark is cunning, gorgeous and a bit more understated than some of their earlier concepts....
(19 June 2006) - Favorite fashion activists Social Suicide (originally shown here) have been hard at work on a few new additions to their line. Most noteworthy are Shark (above left, click to zoom) and Tat2 (above right, click to zoom). A gray woolen flannel suit with subtle pink gills on either side, Shark is cunning, gorgeous and a bit more understated than some of their earlier concepts....
The Duffer of St. George Plaid Flip Flops
(13 June 2006) - London-based The Duffer of St. George is spicing up summer casual wear with their new plaid flip flops. I like both the navy/turquoise/green and red/yellow/blue combinations. Available from Fourth Chamber for £19.99 (around $35). Worldwide shipping is available....
(13 June 2006) - London-based The Duffer of St. George is spicing up summer casual wear with their new plaid flip flops. I like both the navy/turquoise/green and red/yellow/blue combinations. Available from Fourth Chamber for £19.99 (around $35). Worldwide shipping is available....
Tank Too
(17 May 2006) - Tank magazine since 2002. It includes 500 color illustrations and more the 600 pages of many images never published before. Pre-order for $35 from Thames & Hudson or from Amazon. ...
(17 May 2006) - Tank magazine since 2002. It includes 500 color illustrations and more the 600 pages of many images never published before. Pre-order for $35 from Thames & Hudson or from Amazon. ...
Outrageous and Contagious
(26 April 2006) - Running for just a week from next Monday 1 May 2006 at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts is, they claim, the World's first exhibition of viral emails. Outrageous and Contagious will showcase the cream of what appears in your inbox, split into various, sometimes topical, categories like New Orleans and Kate Moss. This image of the supermodel and sometime boyfriend Pete Doherty, doctored to...
(26 April 2006) - Running for just a week from next Monday 1 May 2006 at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts is, they claim, the World's first exhibition of viral emails. Outrageous and Contagious will showcase the cream of what appears in your inbox, split into various, sometimes topical, categories like New Orleans and Kate Moss. This image of the supermodel and sometime boyfriend Pete Doherty, doctored to...
Co-op Magazine
(25 April 2006) - What are you doing today? If you have a hankering to write about it, get in touch with the editors of Co-op Magazine. For its second issue —in a seven-edition volume devoted to seven specific days—the editors have chosen Tuesday 25 April 2006. They stress they're not looking for journal or diary entries; rather it's a creative exercise in how different writers are able...
(25 April 2006) - What are you doing today? If you have a hankering to write about it, get in touch with the editors of Co-op Magazine. For its second issue —in a seven-edition volume devoted to seven specific days—the editors have chosen Tuesday 25 April 2006. They stress they're not looking for journal or diary entries; rather it's a creative exercise in how different writers are able...
Lilly Allen
(24 April 2006) - This is Lily Allen and there's a good reason for that knowing wink as she's highly likely to be the next musician to follow the Artic Monkeys' template and turn a buzz on MySpace into much wider success. The 20-year-old daughter of actor and sometime booze-hound Keith Allen, her voice is as effortless, sexy and enigmatic as Martina Topley-Bird, but her lyrics are as...
(24 April 2006) - This is Lily Allen and there's a good reason for that knowing wink as she's highly likely to be the next musician to follow the Artic Monkeys' template and turn a buzz on MySpace into much wider success. The 20-year-old daughter of actor and sometime booze-hound Keith Allen, her voice is as effortless, sexy and enigmatic as Martina Topley-Bird, but her lyrics are as...
Crooked Tongues Black
(19 April 2006) - Our friends at Crooked Tongues have tweaked their annual shindig this year to tie-in with their adicolor collaboration. As they have designed a shoe and jacket for the Black series, they've decided to call the bash at Black Monday. Can you see a theme developing? Invites are free, they want people to wear those sombre garments from their moody teenage years. In return, they're...
(19 April 2006) - Our friends at Crooked Tongues have tweaked their annual shindig this year to tie-in with their adicolor collaboration. As they have designed a shoe and jacket for the Black series, they've decided to call the bash at Black Monday. Can you see a theme developing? Invites are free, they want people to wear those sombre garments from their moody teenage years. In return, they're...
Rob Ryan at Paul Smith
(13 April 2006) - Fitting in seamlessly with the eclectic aesthetic of Paul Smith are the colorful cut-outs of artist Rob Ryan, and an exhibition of them has just started at the designer's women's shop on Sloane Avenue in London. Not unlike Scottish artist David Shrigley, Ryan likes to hide an unsettling message in his seemingly sweet and simplistic pictures, which are painstakingly put together using delicate paper cut...
(13 April 2006) - Fitting in seamlessly with the eclectic aesthetic of Paul Smith are the colorful cut-outs of artist Rob Ryan, and an exhibition of them has just started at the designer's women's shop on Sloane Avenue in London. Not unlike Scottish artist David Shrigley, Ryan likes to hide an unsettling message in his seemingly sweet and simplistic pictures, which are painstakingly put together using delicate paper cut...
Feasting on the Streets of London
(12 April 2006) - Fast Food Nation and Morgan Spurlock almost tuned his liver into pate in documentary Super Size Me, I thought I'd never have so much as a cheeseburger ever again. My resolve lasted all of two months, so it's refreshing to pick up Fast by Kevin Jackson, which is published in London this week by Portobello Books. Although there are a couple of nods to...
(12 April 2006) - Fast Food Nation and Morgan Spurlock almost tuned his liver into pate in documentary Super Size Me, I thought I'd never have so much as a cheeseburger ever again. My resolve lasted all of two months, so it's refreshing to pick up Fast by Kevin Jackson, which is published in London this week by Portobello Books. Although there are a couple of nods to...
Orange Shop: Notting Hill
(10 April 2006) - For many of us buying a new mobile phone is a task, even a quest, which is not satisfying until it's over and the device is in hand. In the U.K. the mobile operator Orange is experimenting with shop concepts that create a better customer experience. We stumbled on this one in Notting Hill last week, apparently the only one of its kind in...
(10 April 2006) - For many of us buying a new mobile phone is a task, even a quest, which is not satisfying until it's over and the device is in hand. In the U.K. the mobile operator Orange is experimenting with shop concepts that create a better customer experience. We stumbled on this one in Notting Hill last week, apparently the only one of its kind in...
Jenny Holzer: For London
(07 April 2006) - If you're in London over the next week, then come dusk, you'll see the projections by Jenny Holzer gracing some of the city's better-known buildings, like City Hall, Somerset House and The Barbican. Holzer's now in her fifties, and cut her teeth in 1970s New York, where she posted her truisms all over the city. Since then her "high-class graffiti," as its been called,...
(07 April 2006) - If you're in London over the next week, then come dusk, you'll see the projections by Jenny Holzer gracing some of the city's better-known buildings, like City Hall, Somerset House and The Barbican. Holzer's now in her fifties, and cut her teeth in 1970s New York, where she posted her truisms all over the city. Since then her "high-class graffiti," as its been called,...
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