Issue 15 Renew – Sublime

Soul Power

laurasan — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:05:15 +0000

Staged in conjunction with the epic heavyweight title fight ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, the event has since been under-represented, with footage at the time being dedicated to the making of the documentary When We Were Kings. After 35 years in storage, the tapes have been revived by director Jeffrey Levy-...

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Fit For Purpose

Wayne Hemingway — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:00 +0000

At HemingwayDesign, we have just been working on a graphic device for the London Community Recycling Network. It’s a pretty simple concept: drop the ‘f’ from Refuse and what do you get? Reuse.

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Liquid Assets

laurasan — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Andrei Molodkin sits opposite me in a comfortable office in the heart of Victoria. Ironically, he laughs, it belongs to a Russian oil tycoon who happens to be sponsoring his upcoming exhibition Liquid Modernity: Grid and Greed. He’s dressed in black, and I get the uncanny feeling he might be sizing me up for a...

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A Design For Our Times

John Grant — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:00 +0000

People generally in a frightened or hysterical mood are using everything that they own longer than was their custom before … In the earlier period of prosperity, the American people did not wait until the last possible bit of use had been extracted from every commodity. They replaced old articles with new for reasons of fashion and up-to-dateness. They gave up old homes and old automobiles long before they were worn out, merely because they were obsolete.

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First Nation

Georgina-Kate Adams — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:00 +0000

President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives doesn’t believe in wasting energy – or time. He had not even been sworn into office when he made public that combating the threat of climate change would be at the top of his agenda. On the eve of his inauguration, international news teams were reporting that the president-elect...

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Starting Over

Jeremy Leggett — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:00 +0000

I am the founder of a Swiss bank’s private equity fund, chairman of one of the UK’s fastest-growing private companies, winner of Entrepreneur of the Year awards and an Institute of Directors’ Director of the Month. I am also an anti-capitalist. Or so you would have to conclude, if you listened to the broadcast media’s blanket classification of the G20 summit protestors’ concerns.

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