Today the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that was grounded and sank off the coast of Italy, is subject to an attempt to raise it. These images of the ship were taken by photographer Gigi Cifali, and in the light of the 32 lives lost on the ship, are haunting. They are disorientating and show […]
My day just flew past in a whirl of new designs. LDF13 kicked off at the V&A this morning – see just how snap happy I got over on our Instagram. Then it was onto the Sebastian Wrong WRONG for HAY collection, which launched in a Georgian townhouse in St James’s Park. If you’re in London […]
I got two paragraphs into this profile on Carine Roitfeld, exactly up to the words ‘with a drooling gallery of views from her apartment,’ before I bolted over to the website IwanttobeaRoitfeld.com. The French super stylist seems to live in one of those dreamboat Paris apartments with high ceilings and massive balconies with wrought iron […]
Do you remember Cumbrae island’s fabulous 50s Ritz Cafe we reported on a while back? I’ve just been again, but this time it looked a little different. This was Cumbrae’s annual Country & Western Festival, where the island’s tiny town of Millport is taken over by sharp shooters, stetsoned son-of-a-guns, hay seeds, high-rollers and, most […]
David Roberts is a fantastic illustrator I discovered during the 30% of my life that goes solely on buying presents for children. He’s worked with various writers to produce books that in, say 30 years, design bloggers will be pillaging pages from to stick in frames for their gallery wall. Maybe sooner. It’s the detail […]