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TOOWOOMBA CREATED THE LAMINGTON AND ‘WONDERS OF THE VOLCANO’ CREATED THE TEA TOWEL!

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Celebrate National Lamington Day on the 21st July with Wonders of the Volcano (aka sisters, Caitlin Greenhalgh and Sarah Ryan) as they launch their new creative enterprise at The Sauce Kitchen, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia! On National Lamington Day, the sisters will launch their business and first product range – locally designed and hand printed Toowoomba-inspired [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: MZIN / LEIPZIG

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Leipzig is Germany’s unofficial home of books, with its long history of book production, the renowned university for design and ‘book art’ and, of course, the international book fair. So it comes as no surprise that it should have a fine bookstore such as mzin dedicated to independent art and magazine publishing that caters to [...]

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ARCH+ DISPLAYS 
NIEVES ZINES


Wednesday, April 29, 2015

In conjunction with the Gallery Weekend Berlin, ARCH+ is launching its new series of ARCH+ DISPLAYS, starting with the Vitsoe Reading Room and the zines of Swiss publisher Nieves at ARCH+ studio in KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s building complex. On the occasion of the opening on April 30, 2015, Hamburg-based artist Stefan Marx will talk [...]

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WALKING IN NEW YORK

Friday, April 24, 2015

Tomorrow, The New York Times Magazine (under the art direction of Matt Willey, who also designed our ever so popular issue with Chris Ware) will feature one of the most impressive covers I’ve seen in a while, featuring a giant 50m-tall paste-up by street artist JR, on the theme of walking in the city. Nice [...]

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STAMP COLLECTING, 2015

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Who knows how long those lovely little pieces of graphic design called stamps are still going to be around for, so to preserve their legacy for the future, creative director Blair Thomson has started a wonderful Instagram account called Graphilately showcasing the weird and the wonderful from the world of stamp design. Read more over [...]

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EASTER PARADE

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Easter Parade in the Big Apple captured by Advanced Style.

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DESIGN DETAILS: MONO.KULTUR #38 GUS VAN SANT

Thursday, April 2, 2015

There isn’t much we can add to the excellent review over at magCulture as far as the design of our latest issue featuring the great Gus van Sant is concerned. Like van Sant’s cinema, the issue is a quiet affair, setting up a few basic rules and systems and then focusing primarily on the visual [...]

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PRINT IS DEAD. LONG LIVE PRINT

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

It is not every day that we have the honour to be included among ‘The World’s Best Independent Magazines’, and needless to say, we’re thrilled. The latest of coffee table books on independent publishing, Print is Dead. Long Live Print by Ruth Jamieson compiles in one nifty volume a perfect survey of everything that is [...]

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SHEDDING SKIN

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Ghostpoet’s latest album, Shedding Skin, was just released and features maybe one of the nicest covers in some time, abstract at first sight, but extremely literal on closer inspection: the art work are images of skin biopsies, and to be more precise, biopsies of Ghostpoet’s own skin. Read a brief interview here, or see a [...]

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WHY MAKE SENSE

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Nice touch: bespoke cover art for Hot Chip’s forthcoming album Why Make Sense, coming in 501 different colour combinations.

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