Gotham at 7.5K Feet Up

There have been countless aerial images taken of New York City over the years, but nothing quite compares to what Vincent Laforet was able to capture in a recent helicopter ride. Hovering nearly 7,500 feet above the city, the Big Apple glows with energy as avenues are lit up like its very veins. Laforet admits that he was at first a bit afraid since helicopters …

Cosmo Protests Honor Killings

A new limited edition cover of Cosmopolitan magazine’s latest issue is raising awareness around honor killings, a situation in which a person is murdered by a family member for bringing shame upon the family. The cover, designed by Leo Burnett Change, pays homage to Shafilea Ahmed, who was suffocated by her parents in 2004 for refusing an arranged marriage, by depicting the face of a …

Martine Bedin’s “Sassy Objects”

The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Bordeaux is adding to its already impressive, first-ever Andrea Branzi retrospective with a dedicated Martine Bedin exhibition. In a show titled “L’objet déluré (Sassy Object),” Bedin—a founding member of Memphis—returns to her drawings of the ‘80s and ‘90s to realize them as actual objects. Her series of colorful and kooky post-modern pieces will be on display at …