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Monthly Archives: July 2010

THE NORTH CIRCULAR

Thursday, July 15, 2010

“Knitted by grannies, supported by supermodels”, this is The North Circular motto. Katherine Poulton, Alice Shelby, Isobel Davies and super model Lily Cole have joined forces to create a knitwear collection. Scarves, mittens, collars and other accessories are knitted by grannies using the wool of rare sheep from Wensleydale in England.
“We wanted to return value [...]

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THE HARE IN UNDERWOOD

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

And speaking of illustrated books, here is a literary concept of a different kind: Underwood is a new magazine in its very own niche, publishing twice a year a record (yes, vinyl that is) that features on each side one narrated short story by a young and promising author. They’re extraordinarily nicely designed, too. So [...]

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HEATH ROBINSON IN WONDERLAND

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

BTW: This might as well be the funniest Rube Goldbergian children’s book of all times.

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HORZON HORIZON

Monday, July 12, 2010

Rafael Horzon is a bit of an enigma in Berlin – famous for his one and only book shelf system, which is, well, why don’t we call it minimal. Horzon is the kind of furniture designer that makes the kind of furniture that anyone would come up with. Only he makes it better. So buying [...]

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PAUL WAS RIGHT, AGAIN!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Paul Allen, also known as Paul the Octopus (hatched January 2008) is a common octopus living in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who is used as an animal oracle to predict the results of football matches, usually international matches in which Germany is playing. He came to worldwide attention with [...]

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FINALS

Friday, July 9, 2010

So Paul the Octopus turned out to be right, and even the Spanish took a liking to ‘Pulpo Paul’ after he predicted the World Cup title for Spain. Spain’s prime minister Zapatero offered to send a protection team after death threats to the octopus for correctly predicting Germany’s defeat in the semi-finals. But there is [...]

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GOODBYE ‘THE AUTHORS’

Friday, July 9, 2010

…Welcome Mubi. The Movie’s social network The Authors has changed its name to Mubi. Despite the controversy around the new name (and what is it supposed to mean) which is not by any means as glamorous as the previous one, the site exhibits new categories and features that make it even more attractive.
Though I’m not [...]

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The universe is a library

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps the catalogue of catalogues; now that my eyes can hardly decipher what I write, I am preparing to die just a few leagues from the hexagon in which I was born. Once I am [...]

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RED IS THE NEW GREEN

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Have you watched a lot of soccer games lately or spent some nice sunny hours outside on lawns or cycling around forests? Then maybe it’s time to visit the new Serpentine pavillion in Kensington Gardens. It’s a structure of extraordinary redness created by French architect Jean Nouvel, and it comes complete with a red café [...]

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BERLIN FASHION WEEK #03: COLLECT

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Also from tomorrow, we will be presenting our new collection with mono.gramm for Spring / Summer 2011 at Collect showroom, along with fellow labels such as Reality Studio, Esther Perbandt and Maiami, at the great space at L40. Just thought we should mention that.
Collect Showroom
07.–09. June 2019 / 10–19h
L40
Linienstrasse 40
10119 Berlin

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