Marilyn Mugot Captures the Eerie Grandeur of Hong Kong at Night
Like any living thing, a city looks different when it sleeps. The usually populated streets are suddenly sparse and laden with a dark, voluminous void. And there is poetry in...
Surf’s Up: Warren Keelan’s Stunning Seascapes Will Make You Yearn for Summer
The sea is an incredible place. It’s almost like an entity – vast, undulating, everchanging. It exudes a feeling of power and an uncanny calm. Sometimes to swim in the...
Popular Cartography: Your Favourite Pop Titles Charted on One World Map
Who doesn’t like maps? Maps are great. They’re not only useful, but attractive to look at, too. Something about the arrangement of line and colour draws our gaze; from a...
Just for Pun, Some Witty Drawings from Illustrator Nabhan Al Abdullatif
If you’ve been on Twitter today, it may have come to your attention that it is UK Pun Day. This is an excuse for all manner of groan inducing puns....
In Anticipation of ‘Loving Vincent’, Five of Van Gogh’s Later Paintings
Almost a year ago, we published an article about Loving Vincent, the Van Gogh biopic animated entirely from oil paintings. In anticipation of its release, let’s take a look at...
These Five Cinematic Robots Are Smarter Than You
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… A robot walks into a bar. The bartender says, “we don’t serve robots.” The robot replies, “no, but one day you will.”...
Ken Hermann and the Art of Controlled Explosions
I’m hesitant to say it, but explosions are damn cool. Everyone likes marvelling at fireworks in a cold field, where your breath hangs in front of you like mist. The...
Place Your Bets: The Winner of the Turner Prize is Announced Tonight
The Turner Prize, as you know, is an annual art prize that gets people engaging with contemporary art. Everyone loves to tut at an oblique and apparently frivolous artwork, but...
Nicolas Rivals Lights Up the Night with La Linea Roja
A beacon in the cool, dark night. Warm and bright, filled with drama, these lights transform the space around. French photographer Nicolas Rivals installed these red lights in wild, natural...
Born on this Day: William Blake – Poet, Artist, Visionary
Visionary artist William Blake was born in Soho on the 28th November 1757. He left school at ten to attend a drawing academy in the Strand and read voraciously, going...
Cold as Ice: Stunning Photographs Document the Arctic Wastes
Sebastian Copeland cares immensely about the Arctic. It is a beautiful terrain, characterised by an ever-thinning skin of ice across which hardy creatures roam. He documents it sensitively, with beautiful...
A Rare and Gifted Poet: Leonard Cohen Will Be Missed
LEONARD COHEN (21st September 1934 – 7th November 2016) You Want it Darker was released only weeks before Leonard Cohen’s sad passing. The album completes what could be seen as...
Newton Ingestore Might Well Realign Your Reality – A Rare Interview
Newton Ingestore seems to live in an alternate space/time continuum to the rest of us. His illustration is bold, dynamic and uncompromising with lines that are sometimes fluid and amorphously...
A Halloween Treat: Memento Mori Through the Ages
On Halloween, people dress up as ghosts and ghouls and watch films about hauntings and death. Skulls become a more than usually appropriate form of decoration, but in the painting...
Take a Walk Down Alphabet Street with Lola Dupre
Producing a typographic series is a staple job of graphic designers. Aside from drawing letterforms digitally or on paper, designers occasionally find characters in existing objects, or build them somehow....
Just Kidding Around: Meet the Tree Goats of Morocco
Not only do goats eat just about anything, they can get anywhere. If you’ve ever panted your way up a mountain, you might have seen a goat happily ambling up...
InkTober: Time to Brush Up on your Ink Drawing
If you’ve been on Instagram in the past week or so, you’ve most likely encountered the hashtag #inktober. But what is InkTober and where did it come from? For the...
How Science Inspired These Classic Album Covers
Music is an art, right? Not science. Well, the definitions of art and science, being broad enough to encompass much of human endeavour, are not mutually exclusive. And science has...
The Sublimely Beautiful World of Rosie Anne Prosser
Photographer Rosie Anne Prosser grew up on her parent’s farm, which has been in the family for 100 years. The countryside has always been a feature in her life and...
National Portrait Gallery to Exhibit 100 Portraits by William Eggleston
William Eggleston is widely credited as being the original proponent of colour in art photography. The myth goes: before then, art photography was monochrome. His seminal exhibition showed the world...