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The winners of the World Press Photo awards were announced earlier today. Pietro Masturzo’s photograph of a group of women shouting from a Tehran rooftop in protest at the Iranian presidential results (above) took Photo of the Year. Click through for the rest of the winning work…
Masturzo’s photograph is part of a story depicting the [...]

Two nights ago on Wednesday February 10, Brighton’s West Pier (what’s left of it) was lit up in the most spectacular fashion by a nifty rig of lasers…
The laser installation entitled ‘A Pier Appears’ was the first in a series of events curated by Josef Valentino and commissioned by Tiger Beer to celebrate Chinese New [...]

When he is not designing books for Isaac Mizrahi, Peter Buchanan-Smith devotes his time to his side project, a range of beautifully crafted axes called Best Made. We want to find out what sidelines you have on the go…
New York-based Best Made Co. was founded by designer and author Peter Buchanan-Smith, and outdoorsman and environmental [...]

 
Along with its rivals, men’s monthly FHM has been floundering of late. Will a redesign by magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie inject some much-needed life into the magazine?
We’re not sure how many of our readers regularly peruse the flesh-filled pages of FHM but you are probably aware that the men’s magazine sector as a whole has been [...]

Brooklyn-based artist Julia Chiang has an unusual medium for her work – melting lollipops, nailed to the wall
Chiang uses Ring Pops, a ring-shaped lollipop which you can wear on your finger, as exhibited recently by such pre-eminent figures of our times as Lindsay Lohan and Mariah Carey. As the lollies melt, they leave beautiful coloured [...]

Type designer Seb Lester was commissioned by JD Salinger’s publisher Hamish Hamilton (part of the Penguin group) last year to work on a set of new book covers for the reclusive author’s titles, Catcher In The Rye; For Esme With Love And Squalor; Franny And Zooey; and Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour – [...]

Detail from Lady Alice Mary Kerr’s Portrait of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, c.1870
The British Library is currently exhibiting some of the highlights from its vast collection of early photography. Here are just a few examples of the kinds of images on show at Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs…
 
Lady Alice Mary Kerr, Portrait of [...]

Just clapped our eyes on two new Massive Attack videos so thought we’d share them…
First up is this stunning CG film directed by Edouard Salier for track Splitting the Atom – from Massive Attack’s new album, Heligoland which is released today…

Massive Attack have commissioned films to accompany each of the tracks from the new album [...]

2000 people from around the UK were filmed singing along to Lily Allen’s track The Fear for a new promo (shot by director Caswell Coggins) which forms part of an Xbox “Sing it with Lips” karaoke game campaign…
Lily Allen and hundreds of her fans star in a new campaign for Xbox’s karaoke game Lips shot by director [...]

It’s been quite some time since we’ve posted up some record sleeves / CD packages so here’s a few that have caught our eye so far this year…
First up is MVSICA – a limited edition CD compilation of down tempo music by various techno producers. Limited to just 200 copies, the package, designed by Sawdust [...]