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The Red Ball Project
February 22, 2012We want the Red Ball Project to come to our city, London please. Kurt Perschke’s big red balls are made of vinyl and are like huge bouncy balls. The huge balls are currently touring different cities including ones in the US as well as Taipai, Sydney, Aru Dhabi, and Barcelona but we really really want to see it here. So Dear Kurt … read more»
Ai Weiwei Sweden Exhibition Preview
February 22, 2012This month controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei launches his first solo exhibition in Sweden and while many of us wont be able to get over there to see it we’ve got our hands on a sneak peek at what the works in display look like. Curated by Tessa Praun the exhibition is being held at the Magasin 3 gallery in Stockholm and concentrates … read more»
Damien Cuypers Captures LFW
February 22, 2012In our humble opinion artist Damien Cuypers is a genius and these portraits created at London Fashion Week just prove our point. If you’re not familiar with Cuypers work he is a portrait painter who is the man behind The Two Minute Portraits during last years Frieze Art Fair and he was back in town for Fashion Week to work his magic … read more»
Hackney’s Knitted Graffiti
February 22, 2012The streets of Hackney have been given a rather bizarre make over this morning after art collective Yarnbombers worked their magic. Just outside Hackney Town Hall trees have been given a knitted coat to keep them warm through these chilly days. Yarnbombers aim to ‘improve the urban landscape one stitch at a time’ going around … read more»
Polygon Superheroes
February 22, 2012Superheroes. They’re just so damn cool aren’t they? Not only do they have alter egos, out of this world powers and go around saving people in distress but they also manage to wear some of the most ridiculous outfits ever and still conjure up respect from those they come into contact with. Someone that obviously agrees with our … read more»
The Selfridges Word-a-Coaster
February 21, 2012This is a great little video to show the recent collaboration between Selfridges windows and It’s Nice That, the Word-a-Coaster. The Word-a-Coaster is part of the Selfridges reading season, Words Words Words. It’s Nice That constructed a 14 foot high fortune-telling Word-a-Coaster in Selfridges showpiece window. Find more art … read more»
The Little Amazing Show
February 21, 2012We got a Nokia Luma as part of their Amazing Collective before Christmas and we have been really impressed by it. We have been further impressed by their advertising campaign behind it making these short Little Amazing shows from all over Europe. The Little Amazing shows feature small ideas, lovely filming. Have a watch of them below and find … read more»
David Bray
February 21, 2012Illustrator David Bray graduated from Central St. Martins, London with a degree in Graphic Design in 1992 and has been a freelance illustrator since 1996. His pieces are simple with little colour and center around portraits of women. He has worked freeland for almost everyone including Harvey Nichols, MTV, Various Production, Puma, H&M, … read more»
The Nine Eyes Of Google Street View
February 21, 2012While these new images by artist Jon Rafman aren’t the first time Google Street View has found itself the subject of an art piece we think they may well be our favourites. Dubbed as the images Google didn’t want you to see The Nine Eyes Of Google Street View series shows moments in peoples lives that were captured by Google Street … read more»
Cool Architecture: Starbucks
February 21, 2012It’s not that often we find ourselves appreciating the beauty of a building but when we saw this Starbucks in Fukuoka, Japan we genuinely were in awe. Designed by Kengo Kuma the Starbucks coffee shop is situated near the famous Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine and because of it’s close proximity Kuma was cautious to make sure … read more»