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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: This store entrance is epic

THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: This store entrance is epic

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By Low Lai Chow in Cool Travel on Friday 15 March 2013

Somewhere in Dalston, East London is the appointment-only Late Night Chameleon Cafe, a wonderland of a concept store hidden away out of sight. To get to it you’ll need to enter a side door from the streets in Shacklewell Lane down into the basement and trudge through the entrance, which is a hexagonal tunnel constructed out of raw wood and orange Perspex.

The 5,000 square feet space — split into three concept rooms, a book and record store, a music room and a working studio — is designed by set designer Gary Card.

THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: David Bowie Is exhibition at London's V&A Museum

THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: David Bowie Is exhibition at London’s V&A Museum

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By Chloe Warner in New Events on Thursday 14 March 2013

If, like me, you are a huge fan of the high waisted master that is David Bowie, then you will be equally as excited about the cult exhibition at the V&A London. The exhibition, titled David Bowie Is, gives a unique opportunity to delve into a career spanning more than 40 years.

I cannot wait to view his costumes up close and am hopeful that Ziggy Stardust himself will be booming through the speakers in the background.

Detailed cityscape of London made from cardboard and glue

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By Annie Churdar in New Art on Thursday 7 March 2013

Remember the days of building castle forts from cardboard refrigerator boxes? English artist Chris Gilmour has taken that idea to new heights. With nothing more than corrugated cardboard and glue, he’s created amazingly detailed cityscapes. In his London city design, even the Tower Fridge actually functions. Gilmour clearly believes in the motto ‘go big or [...]

Moody work by London-based artist Jonny Burt

Moody work by London-based artist Jonny Burt

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By Lost At E Minor in New Art on Saturday 2 March 2013

London-based artist Jonny Burt produces unapologetically controversial subjects in his art as a statement to a ‘schizophrenic society with a serious identity crisis’. Manifesting from feelings of despair and resentment towards the dehumanising effects of a culture defined by reality shows and the gross sexualisation of its youth, his work offers a satirical examination of [...]

The Wellington Club: a grungy art bar hangout in London

The Wellington Club: a grungy art bar hangout in London

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By Jonny Burt in Cool Travel on Tuesday 26 February 2013

I recently visited The Wellington Club in the heart of Knightsbridge, London, for a magazine launch in which my artwork was featured. Decorated with original works by Damien Hirst and Banksy, hosted by a DJ who must surely have hijacked my iPod playlist, and designed on themes of decadence, promiscuity and urban rebellion, treading into [...]

London, unseen and now seen

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Friday 22 February 2013

‘When a building is knocked down it reveals a view for a short period of time before the next building goes up to obscure it again.’ Wise words by Andy Spain, a photographer who captures the secret views of London’s construction sites as the buildings get demolished.

Iconic Banksy artwork chiseled from wall to be auctioned off this week

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Art on Thursday 21 February 2013

Last May, during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Banksy’s scathing critique of slave labor-like conditions in Britain’s sweatshops appeared on the side of a London shop. Now, having being chiseled from the wall of the store, it is currently being auctioned off at Fine Art Auctions Miami and is estimated to sell for between $500,000 to [...]

London Snow: a short film by Joshua Bond

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By Joshua Bond in Video on Friday 8 February 2013

This is a video I made to capture the snow around London and the fun it had bought with it. It’s not very often that London gets snow as much as this, so it was a lot of fun to be in the middle of it all. Everything was all shot in one day on [...]

Homeless people as ‘insider’ tour guides

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Tuesday 29 January 2013

City tours led by homeless guides? Why not? Apparently it’s a growing trend. In London, the homeless are empowered by Unseen Tours to lead tours where they live; in San Francisco, a homeless guy called Milton offers an insider tour through soup kitchens and shelters to a part of the city where poverty is rampant; [...]

New illustrations by Katheryn Heap

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By Kat Heap in New Art on Thursday 17 January 2013

Illustratively, I get a lot of inspiration from my day-to-day environment. As someone who is not originally from London, the novelty of the Tube has never quite worn off, making public transport one of my favourite things to draw. I have always been fascinated with sprawling cities, decay and people, so my work tends to have a slightly miserable tinge to it. My process generally involves collating imagery (personal photographs, magazines and my imagination), before piecing together new images and drawing them. After the pieces are drawn, I tend to colour them in Photoshop.

The incredible Looping Bridge in Sarajevo

The incredible Looping Bridge in Sarajevo

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By Mareike Muller in Architecture on Thursday 17 January 2013

Bojan Kanlić, Adnan Alagić and Amila Hrustić had to wait for five years until the bridge they designed for a competition while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo was built. Festina Lente, or for those who don’t speak Latin, ‘Make haste, slowly’, is the name of this extraordinary construction that spans 38 meters over the Miljacka river. The idea of this steel bridge with an aluminium trim and glass fence is to create a symbolic gate and a balance between the left and the right side. One could say that the three Bosnian product designers did this very, very well.

50-foot rubber duckie in the River Thames

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Monday 24 December 2012

Jackpotjoy.com‘s latest Facebook initiative, FUNdation, sent a 50-foot giant rubber duckie floating down the River Thames in London. FUNdation is a £250,000 crowd-sourced fund dedicated to…well, fun. The giant rubber ducky drifted past London’s famous monuments, and the Tower Bridge even had to be lifted to let the oversized bath toy through.

Photocopy Club: photocopied images from photographers

Photocopy Club: photocopied images from photographers

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By Angela Datre in New Trends on Thursday 6 December 2012

I have been contributing to The Photocopy Club since its beginning. Curated by Matt Martin, the monthly exhibitions held in the UK feature photocopied images from photographers all over the world. The goal is to make print photography more accessible since xeroxing images is one of the cheapest ways to print.

Old Norse: a short film by Andrew Telling

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By Von in New Film on Wednesday 5 December 2012

Andrew Telling is a London based film maker and musician who just keeps going from strength to strength. He’s recently updated his site with two new films — one for Rapha and the other entitled Old Norse, which follows painter Conor Harrington to Vardø in Norway for Komafest. Breathtakingly beautiful shots, I must have watched [...]

Etienne Clement: plastic people are everywhere

Etienne Clement: plastic people are everywhere

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By Merz in New Art on Wednesday 21 November 2012

I came across Etienne Clement’s work in a magazine and intended to contact him about doing a cover for my last album. It took another four years to hook up with him. He’s a London- based French artist, makes and paints little figures and puts them in often unsettling environments. We both separately came up with the idea of doing a pastiche of the Friedrich painting, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, for the front cover image of my record, No Compass Will Find Home. What, with me temporarily living in the Alps, wandering around Europe like a Flaneur, and tryin a write new songs.