22/03/2021 design & fashion visual culture
Whether an animation for Dua Lipa or Kiefer hidden with Easter eggs for veteran fans, Joe Prytherch magically captures the mood and detail like no other. His atmospheric masterpieces are both a mirror to how billions have experienced life in lockdown and also what the day-to-day was like before 2020.
Read more 17/02/2021 design & fashion visual culture
Prix Pictet winner Joana Choumali is a multi-media artist who fuses photography with embroidery. Her work depicts life in African cities with hand-stitched qualities, creating dreamlike scenes that allow her work to comment on mental health, trauma, and hope through a comforting guise.
Read more 28/11/2020 design & fashion visual culture
"Although my work is dark and serious, there is a childish, playful naivety and innocence about it," explains Alma Haser, whose body of work thrives inside the subjunctive imagination. A photographer by trade, her cubist forms with kaleidoscope of origami shift the nature balances of perception and identity. Delve into collage and a Netflix wonder.
Read more 27/09/2020 design & fashion Visual Culture
Gaze into the fictitious, mythological spectacles created by the exuberant Jessie Makinson and you'll be ensnared by a disruptive narrative of femininity. Seeming disarrayed at a glance, when studied in depth the poetic structure on display begins to reveal itself. The figures in her work have you guessing, creating a mirror effect that deflects from the maker or viewer's gape.
Read more 05/09/2020 design & fashion visual culture
From dark alleyways to Californian boulevards, cannabis culture has flourished into a billion-dollar business in a matter of years since legalization. Anja Charbonneau, editor-in-chief and creative director of Broccoli discusses the rise of modern cannabis consumerism and reinterpreting a culture tarnished over the decades.
Read more 27/08/2020 design & fashion visual culture
From woven barkcloth craftsmen in the northern island of Hokkaido to longbows specialists on Kyushu-the southern reach of this slender collection of masses on the Pacific-Japan has a rich heritage of handicrafts. Through Handmade in Japan, writer and photographer Irwin Wong reveals the mastery and dexterity of the individuals keeping traditional Japanese craft alive.
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