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Monthly Archives: October 2015

ALL HALLOWS’ EVE

Trick or treat?  Better be a shaman for this year’s Halloween party as it is a pagan tradition. Well, say, checking the last runway show of Rick Owens might help as well!

ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: SHUKYU

Back in 2012, we hosted a public viewing when Germany gloriously defeated Greece during the European Football Cup, aided among others by our friend Kohei Ito, who supplied some visuals relating soccer to graphic design. At the time, he already had plans to launch a magazine dedicated to football aesthetics, and three years later, we [...]

Throwback Sunday: Baby Kraftwerk 1970

Today, Kraftwerk’s stage performance may bring to mind retro-SciFi shows and commercial pop perfection, however this debut on German TV captures the experimental starting point of Germany’s most established synth pioneers. With sounds somewhere between the omnipresent E57-Sirens and Steve Reich the audience clearly struggles in confrontation with the new. Apparently, so does the DOP, [...]

DAVID SHRIGLEY X THIRD DRAWER DOWN

Check out the new collaborations between mono.kultur #09 cover star David Shrigley and our friends at Third Drawer Down. Want that tote (pictured above)!

MONDAY MUSIC: JOANNA NEWSOM

Just in time for autumn arrives Joanna Newsom’s new album Divers, and that only happens every five years or so. Even better, the video for her second single is currently screening in – nice touch – cinemas in the US, directed, as the first one above, by none other than P.T. Anderson.

CHINESE WHISPERS 34

As you may or may not have noted, we didn’t really mention our smashing anniversary party two weeks ago anymore, nor any kind of synopsis on our first ten years in print – not that we don’t care, but where to even begin? Thankfully, magCulture posted a little review of our anniversary talk and summed [...]

MONO.PUNKT #32: FOOKBAIR FRANKFURT 2015

Autumn rains are here, and so is the annual season of art book fairs. With the mother of all art book fairs leading the way a few weeks ago, publishing execs worldwide will move their smartphones to Frankfurt this week for the largest regular book gathering in the world, accompanied this Saturday by its little [...]

Pimp Someone’s Ride

Whatever happened to suburban car tuning?, wondered Max Siedentopf. To help people figure out their individual car style, Siedentopf pimped cars overnight adding cardboard modifications. In an interview with the Telegraph he stressed his concern that the potential of self-expression is often neglected in cars.

THE WHITE RIBBON

The White Ribbon makes handmade leather shoes and accessories gathered from sustainable sources. At their shop in Berlin you can find the perfect pair of ballet flats and that tote bag you’ve been looking for. By ordering your shoes in the shop or online, you do not only support slow fashion but also craftsmanship, your local [...]

SEEDY

Some may argue Berghain’s street cred has plummeted since the Claire Danes’s interview, but perhaps that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Enter Birdhain, a clubhouse for birds. Malte Jensen’s design mimics its namesake down to the neon lights that glow through the windows at night.