The Duke of Lancaster is a railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979 and was amongst the last passenger-only steamers built for British Railways. It was beached at Llanerch-y-Mor in North Wales with the intention of turning it into a floating leisure and retail complex but the project never achieved it’s full potential.
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Christina
Donellan
A Nice Ident
Sky Arts have recently been showing their new 'stings' across the channel and the processes behind them. My particular favourite is 'Sharpen' by former Design Communication student Christina Donellan.
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Gentlemen's
Reserve
A Pop-Up Market
Earlier this month saw Free/Man's second Gentlemen's Reserve pop-up market. Held within the walls of the beautiful Old Faithful Shop in Vancouver, brands from the UK, USA, Canada and Japan all participated in this growing venture.
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"The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice."
— Josef Muller-Brockmann
First And
Forever
An Advertising Campaign
After its huge success and cult like following, Gavin Watson returns for a second time to shoot the Dr Martens #firstandforever campaign featuring Agyness Dean and Ash Stymest.
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Work
Place
A Site To Visit
Work.Place is a documentary of creativity in Portland, Oregon by photographer, Carlie Armstrong whose work I first came across in the latest issue of Smith Journal. The aim is to understand creative processes and the places that contain them.
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Completed in 2006, Beetham Tower Gardens, Liverpool uses subtle intersecting lines which are etched, cast, blasted and illuminated within walls and floors, to link glass discs that identify Liverpool’s exports and portray Liverpool 'faces' of the world. The illuminated glass portholes portray contemporary faces of people that reflect the diversity of Liverpool.
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Richard Mosse
Infra
A Photographic Exhibition
Richard Mosse's exhibition Infra uses an obsolete infrared colour film called Kodak Aerochrome. This film registered a spectrum of light beyond what the human eye can see, rendering foliage in vivid hues of lavender, crimson and hot pink, thus offering a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex as that of the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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An Impossible Project Polaroid pop-up studio. A Kaleidoscope projected onto the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral made from photographic fragments of its' stained glass windows. Rainbow Lights to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia. Just part of what made up Liverpool Light Night.
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"It is a luxurious thing to have a passion becoming your own job. You feel like you wake up every day to accomplish something you love. But by the time you will succeed, you have to be ready to "eat potatoes" for maybe quite a long time - that is sometimes the price to pay. But, at the end, you will laugh about it..."
— Gilles Rosier
The
Work Cycle
A Site To Visit
The Work Cycle - a web-based celebration of the Work Cyclist and their Work Cycles - is a self initiated project by Pixillion, a UK-Dutch digital agency hailing from Bristol and The Hague.
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A quarterly publication about 20th century modernist architecture and design with a view from the North of England, The Modernist is published by the Manchester Modernist Society. The current issue puts the focus on 'Brutalism', with past issues covering 'Bold', 'Brilliant' and 'Boom & Bust'.
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Do
Lectures
A Series Of Talks
The Do Lectures is one of the most inspiring organisations I have come across. The idea is a simple one — that people who Do things can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things, too. So each year, the organisers invite a set of people to come and tell the other Do'ers what they Do. You can watch inspiring talks from people who are changing the world over on the website.
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"White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background."
— Jan Tschichold
Uniqlo
Wake Up
A Nice App
Those nice folks over at Japanese brand Uniqlo have released a quirky little app for Android or iPhone that allows you to wake up the gentle way with music that changes with the weather. Something altogether more pleasant than the standard alarm.
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Sculptural ceramicist Janet Holmes recently commissioned Stephanie to photograph the studio, workshop and a number of her works for the opening of a new space. Rathbone Studio aims to bring the sprit of the Della Robbia Pottery back to Birkenhead on the Wirral, which originally closed in 1906.
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Kirstin
Mckee
A Photographer
Flicking through the pages of the latest issue of Oh Comely magazine, led me to discover a number of beautiful photographic images captured by London based Kirstin McKee.
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HIUT
Denim
A Nice Conversation
In this interview with Darian Hocking over at Free/Man, David Hieatt discusses a little about his experiences with building a brand, some life changing moments and how that combination brought him full-circle to the creation of Hiut Denim.
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Blitz
Motorcycles
A Series Of Short Films
Blitz Motorcycles is a Paris-based custom garage founded by Fred Jourden and Hugo Jezegabel in 2010. Together, they conceive, customise and hand finish motorcycles to create unique, one-of-a-kind machines for a range of clients including Japanese brand Edwin. As well as these beautiful bikes, they take the time to create stylish short lifestyle films.
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Pencil
Pen
A Website To Visit
From the same team that run Glasgow based design enterprise GOODD, Pencilpen is a space to record and celebrate the drawing process involved in their other projects. The sketches on show are a database of design and have been picked as key in the development process for a project.
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Zero
Degrees
A Modern Dance Piece
In 2005, four respected artists - dancers and choreographers Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, composer and musician Nitin Sawhney and artist Antony Gormley - teamed up to challenge and inspire through a fusion of dance, music and contemporary art. Taking reference from a journey Khan made from Bangladesh to India, the theme is the transition, the journey towards death – the zero degrees of the title.
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"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
— Ayn Rand