Soon enough I know that I’ll have a spotty teenager in the midst of my family unit whose temperament will be contaminated with puberty-ridden acerbity. How much fun. Although, I find that these situations are best tackled head on with full assault, so when the time comes, I’ll be ready for the onslaught of slammed doors and [...]

If you’ve ever watched Adaptation, you’ll know that it’s based influenced by Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Rather it’s heavily inspired by The Orchid Thief, which is the whole point of the narrative. If you haven’t seen it and this makes about as much sense as genitals on a toaster, then get thyself to a video [...]

It’s no secret we have an affinity for all things fromage and when an object harks tradition yet has the bite of the sharpest Jersey, we can’t help but take notice. The Milk Factory invited six designers—5.5 Designers, F.X Balléry, Germain Bourré, Stéphane Bureaux, Claudio Colucci and Julie Rothhahn—to redesign the cheese platter for the exhibition, “Design sur un plateau” (“Design on a Platter”). According [...]

We’ve discussed our aversion to waiting in queues before, and even though the future promises less of it through technological advances, we still remain skeptical. Dutch designer, Philip Luschen shares our view with his recent work exhibited at Dutch Design Week entitled “Wait Here”. The tongue-in-cheek (or is that ‘fake-nose-on-face’?) installation explores the themes of patience and [...]