Category: Daily Stories

Last month, model and mother Lily Cole spoke out to MPs in the Houses of Parliament to confront the problem of illiteracy. She shared shocking statistics that reveal how social issues significantly affect illiterate people around the world. The campaign urges people to sign a petition calling on the UN to realise how illiteracy can be found in the cause of almost every major problem humanity has to face.

The iconic Old Takashimaya Building in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue is now home to a new Carpenters Workshop Gallery. This new edition to their London and Paris galleries, and the centre for artistic research and development in Roissy, is certainly a big step forward for Carpenters Workshop, known for transcending the traditional borders between furniture and art.

As our appetite for healthy food continues to grow, so does what many call the ‘visual cuisine’. The one that lets us take a pretty picture and brag about what we put on our plates. Here are some 2016 food trends from all of our favourite foodie instagramers.

A change of scene changes your point of view: stimulated by the unfamiliar, you see and experience life differently. The disruption activates your senses. We hope you all had a chance of experiencing that this summer!

Recently launched for iPhone, Swipecast is an app created for putting models in contact with stylists, photographers, retailers, designers, marketing agencies…and basically anyone in regular need of modelling talent. Where there’s a need, there’s an app, and this one is probably making model agencies sweat quite a lot.

A police officer has issued a parking ticket to artist Erwin Wurm for one of his seemingly impossible car sculptures. Titled “Truck”, this installation of a bent red Mercedes-Benz food truck has won him a 30 euro fine. A joke, we suppose, to shine light on one of Austria’s most relevant and international sculptors.

Brands are changing their mannequins for these loveable pups. This phenomenon responds to their effectiveness to capture the audiences attention and their hearts. Are dogs the new influencers?

These ladies are not mexican wrestlers. They’re wearing the increasingly popular “facekinis”, an item that made it to the Time magazine back in 2012 as one of the most incredible images from around the world. Since then, the Japanese born headwear has become a beach sensation in China, and last April, on World Earth Day, this group of models surprised the world posing with them in a rice plantation in Loudi, China. The main goal was to promote local tourism. But add in the ‘facekinis’ and you’ve got yourself a viral!

Ireland is only a few weeks away from the referendum, and the debate is at its peak. With all of the noise, getting your own message out there is not an easy task. So artist and teacher Joe Caslin has decided to go big. His emotional murals are appearing quietly, but are massive think pieces.

It’s no mystery now that Apple is aiming for the luxury world with his anticipated Apple Watch. The most expensive model, Apple Watch Edition, is as detailed as fine jewellery and will cost more than 10.000 dollars. With more accesible designs for 350 dollars, which will help gain market share from the very beginning, it seems like it will be the tipping point to really making wearable tech take off. 

Filmed and produced in the most exotic locations of the Venezuelan jungle, this film by Marcos Luger perfectly sets a post-apocalyptic state of mind that could have taken place if Ashken’s death hadn’t happened. See the complete film here.

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