Moebius Tribute X EndoftheLine - Painted by Jim Rockwell

It seems like we're losing a lot of our heroes of late. From giants of contemporary music like Donna Summer, and MCA, to the inventor of the Raleigh Chopper bicycle - Alan Oakley. It is, of course, just a generational thing. The people we grew up admiring and being inspired...

• Posted 18 June 2012
• UK Culture

Chinese Contemporary Ink Art and High Modernism

Last week the world witnessed the first auction with a section devoted exclusively to the sale of contemporary Chinese ink painting. It was held by Guardian, the leading auction house in China, whose director and President Wang Yannan has been one of the first of her countrymen to have identified...

• Posted 15 June 2012
• UK Culture

11 Hipster Trends Your Dad Started (PHOTOS)

You're not as cool as your dad and you never will be.

He killed it back in the day. You probably can't imagine him as anything other than the time-tamed man who raised you, but there's a whiskey hell beast inside of him. From his late teens till when...

• Posted 14 June 2012
• Books

The Designer's Rise Into the Upper Echelons of Business

Traditionally, the role of the designer has been to make a concept work. The designer was the creative 'brains' behind a successful product, but existed outside of the realm of the C-Suite. Yet this is starting to change. Today, designers are no longer an auxiliary of the boardroom, but are...

• Posted 18 June 2012
• UK Tech

A Right Royal Season

The Royal Court is fast becoming one of my favourite London theatres, having brought the world Jerusalem, which in my opinion is the greatest play of the last decade, it followed up it's success with recent masterpieces such as Posh, Jumpy, Constellations

• Posted 15 June 2012
• UK Culture