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Creative Director, Strategist and Writer focusing on new approaches towards design and cities.
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How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps
Just back from a few days in Berlin, where, among many other things, I had a chance to get together with Aram Bartholl to talk about his SPEED SHOW project, a beautifully simple initiative to turn your local internet cafe into a digital art show. As Aram describes in his SPEED SHOW manifest: “Hit an [...]
Ikea Hacker: Using Ikea as a Gym
There has been a tremendous response to the Ikea Hacker contest and forthcoming exhibition I’m doing with Platform 21 in Amsterdam – some insanely good DIY Ikea innovations are coming in, and some completely unexpected Ikea Hacks, such as the one above from Daredo, where the Ikea store is turned into a workout area, its [...]
Urban Play Focus 03: Poland’s Truthtag
Today’s preview of an Urban Play artist brings Poland’s Truthtag into focus. As is the case with putting together any show, there is an ebb and flow to the list of artists as work progresses, but within the Urban Play roster, Truthtag has always had a core position in the show and its larger concept [...]
Urban Play Focus 02: Madrid’s SpY
Today’s preview of an Urban Play artist brings Madrid’s SpY into the light. The thing I’ve always liked about SpY is the width and breadth of his work and media. From anchoring glow sticks into the pavement to turn a traffic arrow into a firing spaceship (above), to simply attaching a Pac-Man shape onto a [...]
Urban Play Focus 01: Gilberto Esparza – Urban Parasites
As part of the lead-up to the launch of the Urban Play project I am doing with Droog Design in Amsterdam, I will be writing a series of focus pieces on the urban intervention artists and designers I have selected to take part in the project, and who are working at the edge of creativity [...]
Viktor & Rolf & One Amazing Dollhouse
I attended to the Viktor & Rolf opening last night at the Barbican for one of the following reasons: A) I decided I don’t spend enough time around supermodels B) It’s been too long since I’ve spent an evening drinking rose-flavoured vodka cocktails C) I was invited because of my relationship with Premsela It was [...]
Preview of Urban Play: The Exhibition
With Milan just around the corner, here’s a preview of the text going out to publicise Urban Play: The Exhibition
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