Issue 13 Pure – Sublime

New Order

laurasan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:02:26 +0000

The global value of smaller and self-publishing companies was estimated at £7.3bn by the last Book Industry Study Group report, Under the Radar, with the self-publishing sector growing at 30% every year. New technologies, such as e-books and podcasts, the rise of social networking sites and the availability and affordability of print on demand services,...

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Eight

laurasan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:40:50 +0000

One of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Just some of the grave challenges we faced today – from combating AIDS and improving maternal health to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger – alternate with scenes of western prosperity to emphasise either the wealth gap or a comparative universality of issues such as environmental stability and gender...

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Flying High

laurasan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Fashion, in Hussein Chalayan’s world, is not just about clothes. In his world, it also becomes an expression of sociopolitical ideas and cultural themes, channelled through one man’s steadfast vision. Constantly pushing the boundaries of what defines fashion, every Chalayan collection looks to be saying, Fashion is not just for wearing, it is also about...

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Foreign Investment

laurasan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Mixing the playful with seriousness, British-based art collective. Foreign Investment have developed their own intriguing way of tackling large-scale issues. They appropriate the corporate images, language and rituals that threaten to overwhelm us in our complex world, in their own words ‘making visible the inherent value of things’. They resist using the dealers and galleries...

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A World Apart

laurasan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

As you descend onto the moonscape of Iceland, a large frosted island located at a point on the mid-Atlantic ridge where tectonic shifts have played incredible tricks on the landscape, it feels as though you’re dreaming, or perhaps that you’ve landed in outer space. Whatever time you visit (during winter Iceland is cloaked in 24-hour...

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Pure And Simple Does It Every Time

Wayne Hemingway — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Journalists and people in the street alike have been quick to blame the banks for the ‘irresponsible practices’ that have created the current financial crisis. But what about our own borrowing and spending habits? Are we taking personal responsibility for our own situation

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Elemental Force

Jeremy Leggett — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Since my last column, the world has turned on its axis. Watching the world’s finances spin into meltdown in a matter of weeks, the idea that catastrophe can lie just around the corner must suddenly seem horribly tangible to many people. For the banking executive, catastrophe lies in the mammoth hole in his balance sheet and the collapse of his institution. On top of this horror, some bankers find themselves the subject of criminal investigation by the FBI.

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