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Why Doesn’t Food Packaging look like this Anymore?

I‘ll let you in on a little secret. Backstage at Messy Nessy Chic, we’re in the early stages of a website re-design; an image overhaul, a shiny new make-over! And of course when it comes to any kind of re-decorating, you need inspiration. On the look-out for beautiful typography, colour palettes and shapes, I came…

Inside a Hidden Parisian Workshop

A guest post by L’Instant Parisien If you give a meeting point to a Parisian near the Guy Môquet metro stop he or she will inevitably come up with an excuse for not making it. Too far, in the middle of nowhere, there’s nothing worth seeing… how wrong they are! In Paris, behind the austere…

This Abandoned NYC Tram Station is likely to become the World’s First Subterranean Park

You’ve most likely heard of, or even visited New York’s High Line, the elevated linear park recycled from the city’s former central railroad. But it’s time to get to know the “Low Line”… A dark and abandoned one-acre underground space with loose wires and dampness all around– what could there possibly be here to ‘get…

Ghost Signs: Lost & Found

I known I’m not the only one who searches the streets for signs pointing to the past, so let’s go ghost sign hunting with a selection from the Lost & Found: A Photography Sign book by Derek Stenborg. “Lost and Found is not only about finding lost sign treasure, but it is also about honoring…

The Envelope Collector

I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the way they get my mind wondering about what they once contained. Considering the contents of an envelope makes it into something far more intimate and personal and photographer Andrew Bush‘s fascinating collection does just that. The carefully considered…

Automania: The Warehouse of Pop-culture Relics

Bill Saveira, or ‘Jingletown Bill’ used to be a car salesman with a ‘maniacal obsession for old cars’. Today he is the founder of Automania, the film industry’s go-to treasure chest for just about anything, from a fleet of 1960s police cars to a life-sized Indian cigar store sculpture– yes, his collection is that random…

So Wes Anderson’s Brother is an Illustrator and he’s Awesome

Yet more Wes Andersonia to keep us going until the release of The Grand Budapest Hotel, it seems as if the talent pool in the Anderson family spread further than we thought…. Welcome to the world of Eric Chase Anderson, little brother of Wes, with just as big of an imagination. In college, he also wanted…

Dithyrambalina: A Bohemian Orchestral Shanty Town

It might look like it came straight out of one of those fantastical childhood movies we watched over and over again until the vhs tape wore out, but Dithyrambalina is very real. Because that’s what its creator seems to do time and again; bring the places in our dreams to life. Remember Swoon, the Brooklyn-based…

Three Cities, Three Nocturnal Cultures

Europe is hardly a nocturnal place. Most cities seem to close up shop and tuck into bed by 10pm, unlike New York, where you can buy anything at any hour. But three different photographers, in three different European cities took to the streets to document the stand alone trades that operate after dark. These are…

Meanwhile, in a Parallel Universe…

When we think of the great surrealists, artists from another era such as Dalì, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Duchamp usually come to mind. But who have we got today? I’m going to put my money on Thomas Barblèy as an artist whose name will be spoken of in generations to come as one of “the greats”.…

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