Who knew that the humble paint industry was itself in need of a makeover? Well, come to think of it, probably all of us. You need a tool (or a spoon) to open the lid, there’s no pouring spout and the can rusts if it’s left in the shed. Which let's face it, it always is.
By Izzy Ashton
Are you back at work today? Are you struggling, like me, to crank your brain back into gear after an indulgent Christmas? The holidays just past are all about, well at least for me anyway, gorging on good food, great TV and a surplus of books.
By Izzy Ashton
2018 has been quite a year. The news cycle has seemingly continued to grow darker and darker, with many choosing to ignore it entirely. Alas, ignore it we can’t but perhaps there’s a more optimistic year looming up ahead.
By Izzy Ashton
This Christmas, Help Refugees are offering you an alternative gift for your loved ones. For the second year, the charity have opened their Choose Love pop-up shop in central London. But this is a store with a difference.
By Izzy Ashton
A hundred years on from when (some) women were granted the right to vote, are we listening to what they, as consumers, really, truly want? This is the question posed in a new exhibition backed by Kantar.
By Izzy Ashton
To redress the gender imbalance, the Financial Times have developed a bot that analyses their journalists’ work and alerts them if they quote too many men.
By Izzy Ashton
Ever wondered what the world will look like when we enter the next century? A new project from the Scottish artist Katie Paterson aims to capture the nostalgia of the present in anticipation of the future.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Massive Attack’s pioneering album Mezzanine, the Bristol dance act have another world debut: the first album to be released as encoded strands of synthetic DNA.
By Izzy Ashton
Horrified and appalled at the number of homeless people on Manchester’s streets, Ged started giving free haircuts to the homeless. It was from this that Skullfades Foundation was born.
By Izzy Ashton
Photos have become our social currency. They allow us the space to offer up our reality in a particular light, to curate a life that perhaps isn’t quite as accurate as our messy, sometimes chaotic but often dull daily existence.
By Izzy Ashton
Gun violence in the US pervades global news feeds, at points seeming to be happening every single day. The atrocities play out in similar ways with comparable media reports in the days following and the same old empty comments of thoughts and prayers from those in charge.
By Izzy Ashton
When a Banksy piece recently went up for auction as the final lot of the Contemporary Art Evening Auction of 2018 Frieze week in London, many thought it was too good to be true. Which, in the end, it turned out to be.
By Izzy Ashton
The printer’s use has seemingly been mechanical, assisting with engineering parts more than anything else. But now a Dutch design graduate and amateur chef has created a way to sustainably print food snacks.
By Izzy Ashton
Imagine being able to stand next to the equivalent of you, somewhere else in the world? Arguably your lives resemble one another’s, at least on the surface. And yet you live in completely different countries, with completely different ways of operating.
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