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The Photographer on the Bridge: 50 Years of Undiscovered Street Snaps

The photographs of Arthur Fields are hiding all over Ireland; perhaps buried in an old dusty box, forgotten in a once treasured photo album or still close to heart in the breast pocket of someone’s coat. For fifty years, seven days a week, 365 days a year, Arthur stood on the same bridge in Dublin taking…

This is what Two Graphic Designers Dating each other Looks Like

Meet Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman, both designers living in New York. They are good friends with opposite relationship problems and recently found themselves single at the same time. As an experiment, they are dating for 40 days and documenting it for us on a blog. Jessica is a “is a hopeless romantic who jumps…

The Little Urban Veggie Garden

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, the idea of growing a vegetable garden might seem sort of impossible. But this visual diary of one man’s quest to grow his very own garden of Eden on his small front lawn in the busy port city of Oakland, California, may just give you the…

Paris, like it is in the Movies

Attention Parisphiles! There’s a new smartphone application on the block ready to take you on a cinematic journey through the city you love. Cinemacity is a new website and free application that allows users to rediscover Paris through iconic movie scenes filmed around the city. You can view film clips and screen stills pinpointed by…

Norma Jean, Not Marilyn

“For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe. The white wine helped things along. Then there was the inevitable drop … she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw…

The Bond 1977 Lotus Submarine Found in a Storage Unit, Now for Sale

Like most Bond girls, once 007 had his way with her, this 1977 Lotus Esprit ‘submarine’ was cast aside, while James took his pick from an endless line up of other purring beauties. After filming in the Bahamas for her starring role in The Spy Who Loved Me, the submergible sports car was shipped to…

My Little Surf Shack

The outdoor tub had me at hello. Then there was the artist studio, the airy guest house and the sculpture garden of abandoned trucks. And suddenly, I’m interested in surfing. Welcome to the home of artist David Bromley in Byron Bay, surfing capital of Australia, recently visited and photographed by the Design Files. With his…

An Unknown Bob Dylan & friends at Summer Festivals of the 1960s

While thousands storm the famous muddy fields of Glastonbury for its annual music festival this week, why don’t we turn back the clock to the summertime festivals gone by, when Bob Dylan’s words weren’t yet American anthems, hipster was just another name for a jazz musician and the music seemed to have just a little…

The Sole Resident of the World’s Largest Abandoned Building & other Tales

Earlier today, we met the “castaway collector” at his mind boggling apartment in Brooklyn. But I just couldn’t stop there without showing you the rest of this fantastic series This Must Be the Place from Lost & Found films. Collaborators with names like VICE magazine, NY Times and Nike, the film production company, founded by Ben Wu…

Through the Eyes of a Boat

I came across this photographer, there’s no hidden story, no lost secret as you might have come to expect from this blog, just pure appreciation for the habit of looking out of windows, especially round ones, on boats. Photographer Luke Casey has traveled the world by sea and found it looked very different through the…

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