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WE'RE SUPPORTING

Valerian Marguery is a young French graphic designer who enjoys creating digital collages with a vintage touch. In the past two years, he has come up with a great selection of posters that I would put on my walls at home in an instant. Read more

WE'RE THINKING

Apocalypse Cakes is a hilarious blog featuring doomsday-inspired cake recipes such as Raining Blood Red Velvet Cake and Global Jihad Date Cake.

History is the story of the winners, and western dominated culture recounts few triumphs from the east. Mongol is an effort to correct this balance, and the eastern influence is evident in much more than just the storyline. It is more like a fairy tale or legend handed down through generations, than based on fact, with mythical elements playing a major part, and the character’s motivations remaining simple. Read more

WE'RE TRAVELLING TO

Ok, we’re all for clever and quirky signage, but sometimes things just go horribly wrong. This collection of bizarre restaurant signs are either brilliant business ploys (free advertising through the blogosphere?) or total Fails. Read more

WE'RE READING

Our friends over at the street art and design site, Feed Me Cool Shit have a revealing interview up with UK artist Sickboy, who talks about his earliest days on the streets. Read more

WE'RE LISTENING TO

Baltimore’s Teeth Mountain create pulsing, shamanistic, tribal-sounding tracks from a bunch of floor toms, cello, mandolins, keyboards, saws, and whatever else they can get their hands on. The chaotic music they make is noisy, roughly-hewn, and impulsive-sounding, but that seems to be the point. They’re trying to evoke a sort of post-apocalyptic primitivism. It will be interesting to see where this collective takes their aesthetic.

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WE'RE WEARING

See Lady Gaga and raise her an iron mask. This fierce metallic face accessory created by AND_I is made of anodized aluminium and trumps any everyday masquerade ball. Perfect for a night out of crusading cocktails.