• The All New Rolls-Royce Ghost

    The All New Rolls-Royce Ghost

    In my experience, the features that truly make a Rolls-Royce stand out are the hidden petit luxures that surround your experience of the car — they don’t shout, they whisper. Synonymous with the ethereal spirit like names given to the cars themselves, these features add to the mysterious legend, the fairy-tale that is Rolls-Royce. This…

  • Bamford Watch Department + Black Badger — Zenith El Primero Superconductor

    Bamford Watch Department + Black Badger — Zenith El Primero Superconductor

    We’re told time is money and that it flies, and whilst most of us have enjoyed a little more of the former than the latter of late, we’ve been questioning how to celebrate the return to the new future, until now.   The genius of George Bamford, founder of Bamford Watch Department has launched the…

  • DRIVEN — All new Honda e

    DRIVEN — All new Honda e

    Some concept cars you look at and think “Looks great, but it will never happen.” With the Honda e the dream pretty much made it unscathed from the conceptual artistic drawings to the public roads. You can wax lyrical about its visual design but there is much more to the Honda e than its Pixar…

  • ANDERSEN A2 — Aesthetically EV

    ANDERSEN A2 — Aesthetically EV

    The first surprise for me was that Andersen were in fact a British brand. Given the distinctly Danish sounding name and the purposely simple yet timelessly elegant Bang & Olufsen-esque aesthetic of the chargers, I had inwardly assumed that they were a Danish brand. I say my first surprise, as it was not the last…

  • Florentine Kitchen Knives

    Florentine Kitchen Knives

    It’s no coincidence that Florentine Kitchen Knives are able to invoke an almost borderless aesthetic that somehow exemplifies very specific cultures across the globe. Florentine Kitchen Knives is the brainchild Tomer Botner – an industrial designer who spent 10 years in the restaurant industry ruminating on how he could apply his very practical mastery of…

  • Guggenheim Museum Bilbao + Architecture MasterPrize Awards

    Guggenheim Museum Bilbao + Architecture MasterPrize Awards

    This year, Frank Gehry’s acclaimed Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao hosted the honourable Architecture MasterPrize Awards (AMP). One of the most synonymous contemporary buildings of the 20th Century, the location was superbly fitting with the genre of awards itself. Famed for his other buildings including the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and the Walt Disney…

  • Ode to the Rainbow

    Ode to the Rainbow

    Like great artists of old, talented car designers manage to make vehicles that are often more lauded in reflection then they were at the time of their conception. One such motor is the Ferrari 308 GT Bertone Rainbow. Originally unveiled at the 1976 Turin Motor Show as a concept, the car unfortunately never actually made…

  • DRIVEN | Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge Edition 2019

    DRIVEN | Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge Edition 2019

    I’ve heard it said on multiple occasions that “Past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour” and while I do not wholeheartedly subscribe to that notion — the English weather being my case and point — I do believe it is the case with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. As their model range is concise, every…

  • DESIGN | Nike presents the Tiempo Legend 8

    DESIGN | Nike presents the Tiempo Legend 8

    Think back to 2004… Football was in the middle of its commercial superiority when Nike released its infamous TV spot featuring the Brazil and Portugal national teams. Sporting icons like the “original” and “new” Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Luis Figo and cameos from Francesco Totti and Eric Cantona, the featurette explored the flair of both sides.…

  • DESIGN | The Rolls-Royce Champagne Chest

    DESIGN | The Rolls-Royce Champagne Chest

    The “problem” with being a brand like Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, is that everyone expects everything you make to be the best. The standard isn’t even comparable against what is, but also what could be; not “is it better than…” and more “is it that much better than…”. A good problem to have in some respects.…

  • Where to? | Central Hotel Ljubljana

    Where to? | Central Hotel Ljubljana

    It was the first time I’d been to Slovenia, and hence it was the first time I’d been to Ljubljana; the quaint capital city that is more a village in feel — and I mean that as a compliment. The friendly people with warm smiles, coupled with the small size of the city centre make for…

  • SERAC | With the world in mind

    SERAC | With the world in mind

    There is something to be noted with the industries current fascination with sustainability. Those within the circle will know that the conversation is nothing new, yet it can only be a positive that the topic is being widely discussed and welcomed by brands new and old. However, there remains a key problem in truly enabling…

  • MEVO | The Live Streaming revolution

    MEVO | The Live Streaming revolution

    I used to think that social media was current enough. You have the ability to tweet or post video updates as “STORIES” on multiple social platforms from Snapchat to Instagram and Facebook, but these ’edits’ of the day are just teasers and the social media audience are primed for a fuller experience immersion; the live…

  • REIMAGINED | BLACKBIRD INCENSE

    REIMAGINED | BLACKBIRD INCENSE

    Incense has always been an intriguing type of fragrance to me mainly due to its unique characteristics and ‘tone’ of smell. In its pure incense format, the dense tangibility of scent has seen incense used as an accompaniment for pious ceremony, but the personality of incense goes far beyond the format. Any fan of the…