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Monthly Archives: July 2015

ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: CLOG

As you can imagine, we’re all in favour of all things monothematic – and New York-based architecture publication Clog is a more than welcome addition to the club. Published twice a year, every issue is themed around a particular key topic relevant to architecture, be it Miami, Brutalism or the architectural legacy of the Guggenheim [...]

INTRODUCING MONO.STUDIO

We have mentioned before that behind the printed page, we have been doing more and more commissioned design and editorial work for various projects, which in the meantime, we have finally compiled into a glorious website in its very own right. Ladies and gents, please welcome mono.studio.

16.11

And Beach House is playing at Huxley’s Neue Welt in Berlin the 16th of November. Already excited. For more tour dates go here.

KIDS VS COMMERCE

Anyone with kids will relate to children’s direct, uninhibited and vivid response to the world as a refreshing change of view – funny at times, surprising at others, but always incredibly precious to see a reaction unfettered by intellectual reasoning. So Yolanda Domingez‘ genius project Ninos versus Moda to ask a series of 8-year-olds to [...]

NARRATION AS DRY AS SOIL

Christian Kracht’s book Imperium has been considered as a “Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas” recently. Released in Germany in 2012, it has now been translated into English by Daniel Bowes.
The protagonist of the fiction is August Engelhardt, a “nudist and cocovore”, who purchases land in what was then German New Guinea, in order to [...]

BAD

Wash away the everyday grind–”Bad” from Shakai Mondai’s eponymous debut.

THE WORLD IS MY SUNSEED

It’s rare for an Instagram post to make the headlines: our former cover star Ai Weiwei apparemtly received his passport, after being forbidden to leave China for the last four years… It’s about time!

MONDAY MUSIC: ARCADE FIRE

Arcade Fire have mutated into a weird beast since their indie days of Funeral, and I’m not sure if the much-hyped feature length documentary The Reflektor Tapes is going to shed any new light on that slightly mysterious phenomenon, but given that it was filmed by ever so brilliant music video director Kahlil Joseph, it [...]

WHEN TO SAY NOTHING

It’s rare to come across an Instagram account that goes beyond the personally mundane and actually captures a little of that something that defines living in our days and time. Photographer Daniel Arnold on the other hand has a whopping 100k+ followers and for good reason: his images speak about our lives rather than his, [...]

BANG BANG PEGBOARD

Inspired by battleships, the iconic childhood game. The neat layout of the plywood canvas allows for a satisfying, organized arrangement – the Bang Bang Pegboard.