Mention sound system culture to anyone in the UK and they’ll probably associate it with Notting Hill Carnival, the annual two-day celebration of Anglo-Caribbean culture on the streets of West London. However, a new book published by One Love Books this month,”Sound System Culture, Celebrating Huddersfield’s Sound Systems,” tells the story of sound system culture in the UK from its roots in Jamaica to (somewhat …
A little while ago London-based illustrator Matthew Bromley put his freelance illustration career on hold in favor of a nine-to-five design job. This regular salary has meant Bromley could fund his very own skate label, Blast Skates. This week, the new brand launches a series of three beautiful British-made boards featuring new artwork by James Jarvis, Marcus Oakley and Jon Boam. “Being a skateboarder and …
We first wrote about London-based artist Von‘s “Animal Series” when he exhibited at Brooklyn’s Espeis Gallery back in 2007. Since then, his delicately rendered and abstracted monochrome images of various animals from the series have appeared on the catwalks of Milan, the pages of Creative Review’s monthly publication Monograph and even on billboards in both London and New York. Now, the artist has released “Motion,” …
