24/08/2020 architecture & interior design & fashion visual culture
Surf culture is bound to that of creativity; the personalities that define both the sport and lifestyle are often bursting with charisma. When away from the waves, surfers sprawl into unique shacks, apartments, and sometimes huts that fuse a lust for the oceans with other passions. Surf Shacks Vol.2 is a rare glimpse into surfer homes and the artistic habits that define the day-to-day.
Read more 19/08/2020 architecture & interior visual culture
The exemplary career of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen demonstrates how talent can indeed run in the family. An individual who looked to the future, and often sky, with his bold visionary designs where both loved and loathed. On what would have been his birthday, we remember two iconic designs from this mid-20th-century master.
Read more 17/08/2020 Escape visual culture
Once a thriving forest spread across 2,000 miles of Brazilian coastline, The Atlantic Forest is the most abundant biodiverse land in the nation, but also the forest most in peril. Farming and logging are soaring at an alarming rate while politicians fail to pay these actions the attention it’s due. Social commentator Renato Stockler has been documenting local communities resisting deforestation, but fears it may already be too late for the forest.
Read more 11/08/2020 visual culture
At the turn of 20th-century England, a stretch of coast from Skegness to Southwold became a glistening vacation destination that was romanticized in popular culture, but the arrival of budget airlines accelerated the East Coast's economic dwindle. Labeled as forgotten and divergent from the cities, photographer Max Miechowski shines his lens into these communities.
Read more 03/08/2020 Escape visual culture
After 24 hours of driving 4,607.811 kilometers, 343 laps, and through the gears of emotion, a 580 hp 917 KH sports car raced past the finish line and into the history books. On 14 June 1970, Porsche entered the elite club of Le Mans winners. Inspired by the golden jubilee of Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood's Porsche victory at Le Mans, Automobilist created six posters with the theme “Past Meets Future.”
Read more 28/07/2020 travel visual culture
The belt of the Ukrainian Carpathians was a plateau rich with rivers, seasonal fauna and flora, and wildlife. But human exploitation of the land is visibly changing the landscape beyond recognition. Ukrainian photography duo Synchrodogs have developed a visual message that hopes to bring awareness to the vanishing Carpathian panorama.
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