Concrete Playground

If The BFG had been written in the 21st century, Swedish fashion retailer Brothers’ vintage trunk is the suitcase he’d likely have carried. Not only is it enormous, it is filled with Brothers’ newest line of clothing. Titled ‘Travel’, the line boasts a combination of modern comfort and old-fashioned elegance hitherto...

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Every year, the Mies van der Rohe Award recognises and rewards European architectural developments that present new ideas and display the innovative application of technology.This year, the Harpa Concert Hall, a collaboration between Studio Olafur Eliasson and Henning Larsen Architects, has been declared the winner. Constructed in 2011 as part...

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Do you think your breakfast might taste better served with a piratic touch? It could be time to head over to Kickstarter and put your money where you hope your mouth’ll be.Joe Sandor is asking for $13,000 by June 2, to enable him to turn his pirate pancake griddle dream...

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Why use 770,000 words (the Bible’s approximate length) when you can tell the story with none at all? In 2011, designers at Milan-based studio H-57 put a new spin on reductionism with their sequence of pictogram flowcharts depicting history’s most influential figures.The images, laden with cheeky irony and black humour,...

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With house prices constantly on the rise, the Great Australian Dream of owning your own home feels pretty distant to most of us, but a group of architects and industrial designers in Beijing have an answer: the Tricycle House, a collapsible house that fits on the back of a tricycle.The...

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Like a mid-year Christmas, Semi-Permanent is here on our shores again. Bundled up in this year's stocking are designers and creative geniuses hailing from every corner (including our own) with ideas, designs and platforms to inspire and challenge our own native doers and shakers of the design world.In preparation for...

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I, along with many of my fellow Gen-Yers, am at a unique crossroads when it comes to the creation of deliberately grainy photography. I am just slightly too young to have had the childhood pleasure of making pinhole cameras (damn you disposable cameras, damn you), yet I am just old...

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Don't be alarmed, but we think super-schmick purveyors of cool Monocle might be staging an artfully curated coup for world domination, with a luxury cafe in the centre of London set to open on Monday.Considering the powerhouse now boasts this, a 24-hour radio station, a formidable online presence, offline stores...

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Things have come a long way since your ma or pa tied a threadbare rope to a used tyre, slung it over a branch and hoped for the best. These days, swings are manifesting as art, cutting-edge design concepts and even political statements.Not that any of this takes away from...

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Beck’s – a beer internationally entrenched in the worlds of music and art – is getting behind a Kiwi band for the release of its first album.Ghost Wave is an Auckland-based indie band that finds itself somewhere between the Flying Nun bands of the eighties, the British explosion of the...

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Spawned from books such as Born to Run, which argues the fact that humans were engineered to run without the use and support of shoes, the growing trend of bare foot running has not gone unnoticed by Nike.Nike have released their latest innovation in this area, called the Nike Free...

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If you missed last year's Yoko Ono/Opening Ceremony collaboration entitled Yoko Ono Fashions for Men 1969-2012, let me give you a minute to follow the link and get back to me.Wow. Right? LED nipples on a bandeau bra, thigh-high boots and some arseless chaps topped off with some good ol'...

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