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Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson

By Anya Ow / October 2, 2017 / Comments Off on Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson

Isle of Dogs is iconic director Wes Anderson’s latest foray into stop animation, following beloved successes like Fantastic Mr Fox. Via News.com.au: It has been too long since we had a new piece of work from creative genius Wes Anderson. It’s been almost four years since we last drank in Anderson’s symmetrically blissful visuals with […]

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How to Solve Problems like a Designer

By Anya Ow / September 28, 2017 / Comments Off on How to Solve Problems like a Designer

“How to Solve Problems like a Designer” is a vox explainer video by IDEO’s CEO, Tim Brown, who joined the world-famous firm in 1987. Vox sat down with Tim at this year’s TED conference and asked him to break down the steps of design thinking. But what is design thinking? Here is a short explainer […]

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Kenzo's “Cabiria, Charity, Chastity”

By Anya Ow / September 27, 2017 / Comments Off on Kenzo's “Cabiria, Charity, Chastity”

Kenzo’s “Cabiria, Charity, Chastity” is a new concept surrealist short film following its popular, highly awarded Spike Jonze film. Via Adweek: On the heels of winning a Grand Prix at Cannes this summer for the “My Mutant Brain” film, directed by Spike Jonze, Kenzo is back with another stunning piece of work. This time around, […]

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Project Invincible by McLaren

By Anya Ow / September 26, 2017 / Comments Off on Project Invincible by McLaren

Project Invincible by McLaren Applied Technologies is a fully wearable composite shield designed to protect bodies after surgery. Via McLaren: Introducing Project Invincible, the latest innovative personalised healthcare solution made from materials that will be used in next season’s Formula 1 car. McLaren Applied Technologies, the advanced technology, innovation, and design company has revealed the […]

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Art and All White Paintings

By Anya Ow / September 25, 2017 / Comments Off on Art and All White Paintings

This Vox explainer is accurately titled “Why these all white paintings are in museums and mine aren’t”, something that has also troubled us now and then. More on Bloomberg: In a record month for New York art auctions, one standout was an all-white work that sold for $15 million. Even if one lacks Tom Wolfe’s […]

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Game of Thrones: Conquest and Rebellion

By Anya Ow / September 22, 2017 / Comments Off on Game of Thrones: Conquest and Rebellion

Game of Thrones: Conquest and Rebellion is HBO’s latest attempt to help you with your Game of Thrones withdrawal symptoms. Via Gizmodo: Game of Thrones may be focused on the war for the Iron Throne, but there’s another epic battle in the past that’s just as iconic, and it’s finally getting a miniseries of its […]

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Ken Burns and the Vietnam War

By Anya Ow / September 21, 2017 / Comments Off on Ken Burns and the Vietnam War

Ken Burns is back with an epic, 18 hour, 10 part series documentary on the Vietnam War, via PBS. Looks like it’s going to be amazing. Via Vox: The projects of Ken Burns are designed to illuminate the past and, thereby, illuminate the present. You can’t watch, say, The Civil War and not see the […]

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Sexist Commercials – A Parody

By Anya Ow / September 20, 2017 / Comments Off on Sexist Commercials – A Parody

Vir Das’s take on modern day sexist advertising in this hilarious new video for HE Deodorant with a parody of all sexist commercials out there. Via Brown Girl Magazine: On one hand, Goddess Durga is worshipped and on the other, women are reduced to sexually provocative body parts in ad commercials to drive sales. With […]

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Project Literacy and Idris Elba

By Anya Ow / September 19, 2017 / Comments Off on Project Literacy and Idris Elba

Project Literacy and Idris Elba team up with “The Little Chicken Named Pong-Pong”, a story by Wanda Steward, for International Literacy Day. Via the Huffington Post: A mum who used to make up bedtime stories to go with the illustrations in her children’s books, because she was illiterate, has had one of her stories published, […]

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Art for Lawyers

By Anya Ow / September 18, 2017 / Comments Off on Art for Lawyers

Art for Lawyers is a 9 minute collaborative documentary made by Rory Waudby-Tolley, who was invited to take up an art residency at the law firm Pinsent Masons. Via Short of the Week: Invited to complete an arts residency at an international law firm in the City, Waudby-Tolley was puzzled over the direction he should […]

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