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360˚ branding
“Aubin & Wills was always about more than fashion”, says creative director Sarah Holme. Putting this idea into practice, the brand has just opened a new multifunctional space that goes beyond...
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Cultural life in the fast lane
The Ruhr, Germany’s former industrial heartland, is a cultural kind of place. It’s the Cultural Capital of Europe 2010, and in fact, even its motorways are culturally inclined. In celebration of its...
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Room for culture
Melbourne’s Lost & Found Hotel Room is the antidote for faceless hotel chains. Designed by local architect firm Six Degrees, this one of a kind room gives guests a unique Melbourne experience by...
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Metro Libro
Librerias Gandhi, one of Mexico’s leading book retailers, is trying to get more commuters reading with its guerrilla-style Metrolibro campaign. 13 billboards along the Mexico City metro’s yellow line...
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Mexi-kitsch
Cultural contrast has always been part of the Mexican DNA. Ay Güey is one of many businesses tapping into this by blending folklore with graphic design into kitschy pop culture objects. You can find...
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Work rules
Division of Labor’s cheeky poster series, “New Rules of Work,” uses vintage letterpress design to send up the vagaries of early 21st-century knowledge work. The sentiments are universal enough to hang...
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Not just a colour
In the short time I’ve been in Asia, I’ve come to appreciate colour in a whole new way. Where in the West we tend to associate colours with functional or emotional attributes (eg, red for stopping...
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Going overground
Bank and Monument. Charing Cross and Embankment. Leicester Square and Picadilly Circus. All Londoners know the tube stations you can easily walk between. But now Nike is encouraging us to ditch our...
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Lost for words
“It’s only words,” Barry, Robin and Maurice told us in 1968. But it seems words have stirred up a whole hornets’ nest over in Sydney where the Museum of Words has been hitting the headlines for all the...
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Direct male
Move over Queenie, there’s a new stamp in town. Itella, the Finnish postal service, has just announced the launch of a range of Tom of Finland stamps, celebrating the ‘proud homoeroticism’ of the...
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