If you ask me, what is a French Style illustration, I would tell you that the work of Carine Brancowitz is close to the perfect example. I don’t know if its her colors, her characters or their styles, but for me its really French and oh so stylish! Love it! READ MORE

Marios Schwab is certainly under the spotlight at the moment. Becoming creative director for Halston means he had a debut to prepare for New York fashion week and a show for his own label at London fashion week just a week apart.

For this collection Schwab seemed to go back to his Austrian roots. with traditional tailoring of simple and sharp shapes and silhouettes… READ MORE

Contemporary artist Antony Micallef highlights an air of humanism & fragility in his work mixed with an element of darkness entwined with cultural aspects. READ MORE

Simon Green, a british musician, producer, and DJ, is Bonobo.  The downtempo, trip-hop artist’s newest release on Ninja Tune, Black Sands, is packed full of amazing tracks.  Three of which he worked with up and coming singer Andreya Triana (the two have been working closely recently, Bonobo also produced Triana’s upcoming album).  You might recognize her voice from Flying Lotus‘ track Tea Leaf Dancers,   The song starts off with an ambient background sound that is built upon, first with the drum beat, then a harp, then Andreya’s soft, smokey voice and finally a jazzy saxophone completes the ensemble.  The new album is full of tracks that progress in a very linear fashion, always building on themselves.  It’s well worth a listen.  Enjoy!

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Primary 1 is Joe Flory, a synthpop producer from the UK who has quite the resume. Primary 1 has been remixed by anyone from Memory Tapes to Joker, collaborated with the Cardigans’ Nina Persson and Phoenix producer Philippe Zdar and is currently touring with Ellie Goulding. You can find most of his music, a collection of bedroom recordings, on an album entitled Mess Detective, which you can download for free here. What sets him apart from most up-and-coming underground producers is that he has a major label deal with Atlantic Records.

On his track The Blues, featuring Nina Persson of the Cradigans, Flory demonstrates why a label such as Atlantic might be interested. The beat is steady, the synth melody soaring and the horn arrangement melancholy, but the thing that makes this track so irresistible is the back and forth duet of Flory and Persson. With this track Primary 1 exudes a certain confidence and I have a feeling this is his initial imprint of much bigger things to come. Time to hit the repeat button.

Listen to The Blues (ft. Nina Persson) Here

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Mikrokosmos by Bigert & Bergström are Molecular structures lit from inside of spherical photographs documenting space from a new perspective. I love it! Would love to see that kind of exhibition more often… READ MORE