Los Angeles-based shoegaze outfit, IO Echo has unveiled an interactive video for the title single "Ministry of Love," which lets the user control and manipulate its aesthetic.
Created by the developers behind Arcade Fire’s interactive film project The Wilderness Downtown, the video features lead singer, Ioanna Gika and guitarist, Leopold Ross playing-out in a series of George Orwell-inspired sequences, in which
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German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen has just unveiled its latest model created in collaboration with Apple, called the iBeetle.
The iconic VW Beetle is the first ever car to feature a fully-integrated Apple iPhone. Its dashboard docking station merges both the iPhone and Beetle’s interfaces to let drivers access Spotify, send emails and display vital information, including the oil and coolant temperatures.
Drivers
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Yesterday, Twitter launched its cutting-edge "music discovery" platform and app, Twitter #Music.
A new service that aims to revolutionize how people discover music, Twitter #Music uses Twitter activity to detect and uncover the most popular tracks and artists on Twitter. Using four separate tabs (Popular, Emerging, Suggested and #NowPlaying), a clean grid layout displays a profile image for each artist. With
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A topic heavily discussed in our recent report, Future Legacy, Google has unveiled a new feature that enables users to control what happens to their digital data once they have passed away.
The Inactive Account Manager function controls data related to Google, such as email, Youtube videos, Google documents and blog posts, which users can set to be deleted or sent
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Opened today, global affairs and culture magazine Monocle has unveiled a stylish new cafe in the heart of London.
Monocle Café will serve coffee and edibles to busy city dwellers and visitors alike, in a stylish interior devised by in-house designer Yoshitsugu Takagi.
"We wanted to create a relaxed space for a morning coffee meeting, a lengthy weekend lunch with the papers,
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Winners of the W Hotel Designers of the Future Award were announced yesterday in a special ceremony in Milan, held during the 52nd edition of Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
Objects series by Seung-Yong Song
Designers Seung-Yong Song, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Jon Stam and Royal College of Art former student Bethan Laura Wood have all scooped the prestigious award for their preliminary
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With Milan Design Week already in full swing, our editors are out in the field reporting back to us with the key design directions and interiors trends from this world-renowned furniture fair.
Triangles by Bertjan Pot
Some of our top sightings from the show, so far, include the above, beautiful, kaleidoscopic rugs and furniture coverings by Netherlands based, interior design studio Bertjan
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We love this new, London-based travel site Escape Flight, which uses algorithms to curate inspiring weekend city breaks in Europe.
A completely free service, Escape Flight has been designed with the typical busy city dweller in mind, such as those with limited time on their hands to trawl through the abundance of online travel websites, or those who are simply undecided
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Turning the format of a traditional art biennial on its head, BiennaleOnline is due to open at the end of this month and will take place exclusively on the Internet.
Shedding Skin, Nina Canell (2008)
This new internet-only platform will showcase the works of 180 emerging artists from around the world, and has been described by its founders and curators as “the first
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Coinciding with a new exhibition in New York, advertising agency Droga5 has transformed the city’s payphones into a series of time capsules, enabling members of the public to travel back in time and recall local stories from the year 1993.
The urban artwork, entitled Recalling 1993, is currently running alongside the New Museum’s much-hyped exhibition, NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash
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Last Thursday, Stylesight attended the Issue 7 launch of design magazine Connecting the Dots.
Co-published with ELLE Decoration in a rich back-to-back edition, the magazine offers insight into contemporary Dutch design.
For the current issue, eight, influential and established Dutch designers have been profiled by way of interviews and individual portraits. The designers, all 50+ years, represent a generation that was trained
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This beautiful and intimate, pop up gallery space in New York is by appointment only, and is currently residing in a disused subway staircase in Lower Manhattan.
Discreet in appearance, S2A is accessed through a small red door. Once inside, visitors pay a small fee of $2.50 before being led down a narrow stairwell to the exhibition area. Only three visitors
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A summer camp exclusively for adults, Camp Grounded is a unique and off-grid experience that has been designed to provide respite from the daily grind.
Created by Digital Detox, an Oakland-based organization that promotes well-being and balance for modern day urbanites, Camp Grounded will ask guests to “trade in computers, cell phones, Instagrams, clocks, schedules and work-jargon for a weekend of
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Fusing contemporary design with traditional African weaving techniques, the Interwoven exhibition at Habitat’s Platform Gallery on King’s Road in London features 40 interior design pieces, including stunning handmade baskets and tableware.
Mixing diverse materials including dyed grass and waste fabrics with fashion forward fluorescent hues and contemporary silhouettes, this intriguing exhibition includes the work of five U.K. designers (all former Central
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Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize, announced last week that the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japanese architect, Toyo Ito.
Toyo Ito and the TOD's Omotesando Building, Tokyo - 2002-2004
The 71 year old architect is actually the sixth Japanese Laureate of the prestigious award, following into the steps of the late Kenzo
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