Monthly Archives: May 2011

Street Food, Street Life – Cape Town

Bunny Chow

We catch up with King Adz (author of Blek le Rat – Getting Through the Walls, The Urban Traveller’s Sketchbook and The Urban Cookbook) in Cape Town this week in his search for the world’s best street food.. When the South African government began bulldozing District 6 – a multi-racial district of central Cape Town […]

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Betterton Street, WC2

Mark Wallinger brick

One of Mark Wallinger‘s bricks spotted today by our Design Director Johanna Neurath – but who is the anonymous assailant? Martin Herbert’s comprehensive study of Mark Wallinger’s extensive career is published by Thames & Hudson in October and traces his development from early influences to winning the Turner Prize in 2007 and beyond. Click here […]

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Mick Jagger: Young in the 60s

His unmistakable face has made him the archetypal rock star. His charisma has fuelled the admiration and passion of his fans, the way he moves his body has shaped the myth of male celebrity, and his lips have become the logo of his band, the Rolling Stones… Coinciding with the publication of Mick Jagger: The […]

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Street Food, Street Life – Tel Aviv

Sabich

Join King Adz (author of Blek le Rat – Getting Through the Walls, The Urban Traveller’s Sketchbook and The Urban Cookbook) to Tel Aviv this week in his search for the world’s best street food.. Tel Aviv by day is what I imagine Beirut must have been like before it fell. Coffee kiosks everywhere, people […]

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Street Alphabet Competition winners

Matt Thomas

MadABC Exhibition at Pure Evil Gallery © Marco Prosch Last month we teamed up with Don’t Panic online to give budding illustrators, photographers, street and graffiti artists the chance to great their own street alphabet in homage to Claudia Walde‘s collection and recently published book Street Fonts. The only rules were that submitted work should […]

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Author Q&A: Steven Heller

Scripts

We spoke to legendary art director, author, critic and editor Steven Heller about his new book Scripts, co-authored by designer Louise Fili, and the lost art of penmanship in the digital age. Can you give us a brief description of Scripts? Scripts is a celebration of script letters, alphabets and fonts from classical to modern, […]

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