Fairies and monsters
Hairy wolf-men, club-wielding ogres and mischievous imps inhabit a new paper cut by designer Damian O’Hara. It’s been created for arts festival Fairy Tales & Monsters, held at London’s Kings
Always Coca-Cola
Did you know that pharmacist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola as a medicine to cure headaches? Perhaps. Did you also know he only used to sell ten bottles a day? Maybe
Message in a bottle
Jean genius Diesel is expanding its waistband far beyond the realms of denim and into the sphere of creativity with their Diesel Island programme, one of the highlights of which
Waiting room
An abandoned room, entirely coated in white paint, sits waiting to be destroyed. The location is the St Philip’s Building in London, which was signed off for demolition yesterday. Designer
Love is what you want
‘It’s not about who I f*cked, it’s about who I slept with. With the Tent, people forget it’s about intimacy,’ says Emin at the launch of her new retrospective, Love
The power of making
Boasting a life-sized crochet bear and a lion-shaped Ghanian coffin, the Power of Making exhibition, coming to the Victoria & Albert museum in September, may sound like eclectic throwaway fun,
Dee Cooper leaves Virgin Atlantic
Dee Cooper, director of product service at airline Virgin Atlantic, has left the company.
Mary Portas leads Government review into the high street
Retail expert Mary Portas has been appointed to lead an independent review into the future of British high street retail.
GR/DD creates air show app for Imperial War Museum
GR/DD has designed a new app for the Imperial War Museum’s Duxford Airshows 2011, which provides real-time flying schedules and aircraft information.
Wonder brands online art magazine Cassone
Wonder Associates has created a new identity and website for online art magazine Cassone.
Animal magic
Animal Magic, the classic BBC television show broadcast from the 1960s to the 1980s, saw Johnny Morris wittingly apply jovial voiceovers to animals at Bristol Zoo. This hit TV-show, along
Architecture as air
It’s perhaps not surprising that the work of an architect who describes the Barbican’s The Curve gallery as ‘melting endlessly into space’ is delicate and ethereally minimalist. The architect in
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