Exercise Book Archive is a website devoted to collecting children's school notebooks from around the world. They aim to create a big digital archive and it currently dates back to the 18th century with one 1773 entry. There are notebooks from the UK, Italy, Ghana, China, Finland, Brazil, and...
Karen Nicol's embroideries are messy, sparkly, and all-around-wonderful. An embroiderer and mixed media textile artist, she specializes in Irish, Cornelly, Multihead, beading, and hand embroidery; working from her studio based in London for over twenty-five years now. Her clients include giants from the fashion world and otherwise, like ...
Animals make everything better – even when they come in emoji form. That’s why it’s not surprising to see them become the stars of the latest viral meme that’s taken Twitter by storm. This unusual trend started when a Twitter user who goes by the name @psthursm tweeted a series of emojis depicting...
For 20 years now, Peter Clark has been elbows deep in collage art. His artwork is made of found papers which he transforms, relying on their colors, patterns, and textures, made by their printed, written or worn surfaces. Using a comprehensive collection of found papers as his palette, he...
Jisun Kim considers herself a multidisciplinary designer, a creative person with a keen eye for detail. Based between Seoul and London, she works on interior, furniture, branding design, and visual identities. Her designs have a very clean feel to them, adding an artistic dimension to her otherwise commercial work. "I think it’s...
Material designer and maker, Charlotte Kidger, understands the importance of not only good design but that of good materials. With a process-driven hands-on approach, she explores the possibilities of using secondary raw materials to create innovative and exciting new outcomes with a core focus on materiality. Her most exciting...
Bob Landström's paintings are interesting not only for their chosen subjects, dense with allusions and symbols but also for the materials he chooses to work with. Using a unique medium of crushed volcanic rocks, he has developed numerous techniques for coloring rocks, allowing him to produce an expansive, highly...
Fluffy is a small leopard plushie who has been, alongside his humans, Pim and Beka, exploring the world since 2010. His adventures began after wrapping up his stint as a prop/actor for the Dutch feature film Eight. “Though they initially saw me as no more than a prop, I...
Not many people feel passionate about history. In fact, we mostly remember it as the boring hours spent in class with a tired, bored teacher drilling battle dates and names of peace treaties into our minds. But some do love history, and few love it more than Mark Schneider,...
On December 30th, 2019, Youtube channel Life Noggin shared an informative video that explains the physiology of panic attacks. "Panic attacks can happen to anyone, but what's really happening to your body when one strikes?" they wrote below the video. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7YX5hvHvUB/ If you've been experiencing panic attacks or know someone who...