Ellen Himelfarb is a freelance design and travel writer based in London after stints in Shanghai and her native Canada. She contributes to Wallpaper, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Globe and Mail.
When we heard last fall that Monotype was now operating out of modern digs in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood we asked ourselves, “Hadn’t they always?” Monotype is, of…
With all the noise coming out of design capitals like Denmark and Holland, it’s easy to miss the transition “old…
If you’re old enough or keen enough to have heard of a 2005 Danish film called Dear Wendy, you will…
On a recent Tuesday evening, I followed Sarah Hyndman around Dalston, one of London’s most creative and quickly gentrifying neighborhoods. Her…
What a week it’s been in the supposed United Kingdom—not least for creative people who rely on the easy flow…
Rasmus Drucker Ibfelt was a terrible fashion designer—his words, not mine. In the mid ’90s he abandoned his short-lived career…
When a resource becomes a hot commodity there’s always a danger that it will meet a tragic end. See: ivory.…
History hasn’t always been kind to vertical stripes. Take a look at who’s worn them: gangsters, prisoners, circus performers, embattled referees.…
Let’s pretend for a moment that the logo for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was perfectly fine—that it…
Go to the city, build your fortune, retire to the countryside. That used to be the Great European Dream. Cities buzzed with…
“The most profound youth revolution I’ve seen in the last 10 years has been a graphical one,” says multihyphenate creative Fred…
It wasn’t just the grand weather in London last week. Sunshine, lollipops, and rainbow colors characterized a lot of what…
