Category: Culture

  • Influencers: How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious – documentary

    Influencers: How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious – documentary

    A film exploring how trends and tastes permeate from the Big Apple Websites Influencers film R+I Creative Ostensibly this short documentary from Paris-based indie filmmakers R+I Creative intends to find out “what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious… in music, fashion and entertainment”. Set in the Big Apple, […]

  • All-in-one audio systems – high-end hi-fi

    All-in-one audio systems – high-end hi-fi

    A look at why exclusive hi-fi brands are embracing the iPod generation Info Naim Uniti Star From approx. £3,299.00 Linn’s digital-streaming systems start at Approx. £1,750.00 Arcam Solo Music / miniBlink Approx. £1,299.00 / £90.00 Back in the ’80s when CDs began superseding vinyl among music lovers, the question raging among audiophiles was which format […]

  • Dieter Rams designer profile – product design

    Dieter Rams designer profile – product design

    Exploring the work of product designer Dieter Rams who has influenced tech trailblazer Apple Website Vitsœ The world may drool over the clean, sleek creations of Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, but Dieter Rams was espousing the virtues of good design decades before Ive was even born. From 1955 until […]

  • Andy Gilmore artist profile – geometric illustrations

    Andy Gilmore artist profile – geometric illustrations

    Profiling the work of New York designer Andy Gilmore who creates geometric illustrations for the likes of Wired magazine and The New York Times Website Andy Gilmore For a while, this designer from Rochester, New York, has been creating ripples in the art world. Many of his complex, geometric images resemble etches produced by Spirograph […]

  • Margaret O’Rorke artist profile – light sculptures

    Margaret O’Rorke artist profile – light sculptures

    Profiling the work of Oxfordshire potter Margaret O’Rorke who makes porcelain light sculptures Book Clay, Light & Water (A&C Black)   Website Margaret O’Rorke Margaret O’Rorke is an unassuming potter who makes striking light sculptures. Since the early ’80s, she’s been producing translucent porcelain pieces from her UK studio in Oxfordshire. In the mid-1950s, she […]

  • Rollover movie review

    Rollover movie review

    Did the panned ’80s flick foresee the financial meltdown? Economists have, with some justification, been criticised for not foreseeing the current economic crisis. Hollywood, it seems, may have done a better job. Flawed financial thriller Rollover culminates in the collapse of world currencies as the value of stock markets plummets. In 1981 when it was […]

  • Lomography definition – photography

    Lomography definition – photography

    Surveying the pictures and cameras from the Lomographic scene Info New York’s Lomography Gallery Store, 41 West 8th Street. Tel: (212) 529 4353 Websites Lomographic Society International Lomography on Flickr Analogue technology is on life support. It’s been teetering on the edge of extinction for two decades, as music, photography and TV succumb to all […]

  • Blek le Rat artist profile – graffiti art

    Blek le Rat artist profile – graffiti art

    Before Banksy, French graffiti artist Blek le Rat daubed the world’s walls Book Blek le Rat: Getting Through the Walls (Thames & Hudson) Website Blek le Rat With Bristolian graffiti artist Banksy fetching a whopping £322,900 at Sotheby’s in 2007 for his work The Rude Lord, it’s worth noting that before Banksy, there was Xavier […]

  • Bauhaus definition – design and architecture

    Bauhaus definition – design and architecture

    A look at Bauhaus, a cultural movement that’s had a lasting effect on modern urban life Bauhaus Archive – Museum Of Design, Klingelhöferstraße 14, D – 10785 Berlin, Germany Telephone +49 (0) 30 – 25 40 02 0 Website Bauhaus Archive – Museum Of Design To suss out what makes cities tick, a schooling in […]

  • Takashi Murakami artist profile – modern art

    Takashi Murakami artist profile – modern art

    A look at the Warhol-like creations of Japan’s artful marketeer Takashi Murakami Website Takashi Murakami It’s a cliché to call Takashi Murakami “Japan’s answer to Andy Warhol”, but there are some inescapable similarities between the hip Japanese artist and the iconic US figure. Warhol took everyday objects and repackaged them as high art. So does […]