Hasta La Ideas

Designed by London-based firm Kiwi & Pom, Marks & Spencer Kitchen is a bespoke, stand alone cafè, located at the entrance to Marks & Spencer’s new flagship store in Westfield London.

The distinctive 3D form created from over 350 unique triangles of Corian serves as a meeting place and functional cafè, resulting in a sculptural design people can utilize both within and outside of it.

Kiwi & Pom’s cafè design will be featured in multiple other Marks & Spencer locations throughout the U.K. and Ireland, a level of success not unusual for the young studio.

Other notable accomplishments by the design duo include their work with for Hulger , creating the first-ever wooden Skype phone using sustainable materials that would withstand any software update. Their sleek Party Box for the upscale karaoke venue Lucky Voice, allows users to turn any computer into the ultimate karaoke machine with its microphone mixer that plugs into any PC.

Believing in strong, well-thought-out ideas and priding themselves in delivering concepts without compromise, Kiwi & Pom aim to create beautiful, functional and accessible designs that may be unexpected and unconventional, but always relevant and innovative.

This shipment of magazines (and more) have left the building! Good thing our car can hold 250kg of cargo. Thank you to my husband Glen for helping me get it to the “Receiving Verification Unit”.

Over 75% of the print run has been spoken for, just one week after we released issue 2. You guys are incredible—thank you so much for spreading the word about UPPERCASE magazine. The fall issue doesn’t come out until October 1, so we will certainly sell out of the summer edition quite quickly. Although single issues are available for sale in our shop and online, we really hope that you will take the plunge and subscribe.

We have a number of exciting ways that you can participate in upcoming exhibitions and magazine features. You can preview some of the calls for submission here and stay tuned for more information to be posted and emailed soon. (You can sign up for our emails by clicking “sign me up” in the blue navigation bar at the top right corner of the website.)

The exploration of the non-literal sense of space and family will be the thrust of the Salon We-Are-Familia exhibit at Open Space Gallery , in New York art town Beacon.

Headed by creative director Jennifer Garcia (of SEEE tee fame), We-Are-Familia comprises a collective of 50 artists spread across many disciplines focused on the concept of family.

Artists including Holly Stevenson, Yoh Nagao, Jesse Brown and Peter Kienzle for Superette will show their multimedia pieces, an eclectic mix of work that ranges from photographs to furniture. The highlight of the show is “Keepsake Box No. 5,” a motley mix of found furniture pieces and 37 artworks assembled together, including a video screen showing movies by director Olivier Babinet and video artist Rashaad Newsome, plus digital prints by Geneviève Gauckler and Rockers NYC.

For those in the New York area who would like to attend the event, there is a $45 pass available which includes round-trip transportation on a school bus from NYC to Beacon, a BBQ dinner at the gallery and a tour of D.I.A. Beacon. For more information or to reserve a spot, send an email to rsvp [at] we-are-familia [dot] com.

Salon We-Are-Familia

Opening 11 July 2009 from 6-9pm

11 July-6 September 2009

Open Space Gallery

510 Main Street

Beacon, New York 12508 map

tel. +1 845 765 0731

It’s a pity that the F1 rift has been bridged.
I eagerly awaited a new powerful top of the world car competition that would emerge from the wrecked championship.
Now, we’ll have an edgier crisper version of the same old boring thing.

The most talked about theme today is cars.
Limit technology? Push it? Is this piece legal?

Pilots while important, have been relegated to the “we already know your amazing fucking talent, but the difference is the cars” corner. Will they become redundant?

We want a simple competition:
Daring pilots, fast cars, and the advancement car/machine tech.
Let’s involve universities!

The cars///

1 Unlimited engine/s:
Gas, electric, hydrogen, whatever.
Efficiency and economy will grow Darwinianly alongside a strong ecological element that everybody wants.

2 Teardrop/wedge shape:
Clean aero, no spoilers.

3 Mystery area:
The area under the car is open to any aerodynamic invention.
Do as you please, don’t risk the pilots life by design.

The secrets of the underside will infuse the season with a fresh razzle dazzle of teams hiding shapes by painterly deceit. Think of it as the sailboat race-like mystery encircling fin-keel profiles.

4 Four open wheels:
Set at regulation distance between themselves.
Slick tires, no rules on manufacturing.

5 Aerodynamic/energy generating wheels:
No protrusions outside the tire rim.

6 Electronics and mechanics:
Traction control, ABS, active suspensions and whatever they come up with next.

7 Last but not least: Safety.
Develop better airbags, decelerators, and protectors for crashes.

F1 should entertain us while pushing technology forward.

Everyone’s favorite expert on the subject of Murketing, Rob Walker, along with cohort Joshua Glenn, have just launched what’s sure to be a fun and interesting side project entitled Significant Objects. It’s a mix between a dash of Objectified and a sprig of Chicago’s popular Dollar Store show, as the two curators gave miscellaneous objects found in thrift stores and yard sales to a wide range of writers who will come up with fictional stories about them. Following that, the items will be re-sold on eBay, complete with their new histories. It’s a heck of a great idea and Walker and Glenn have assembled a really terrific collection of writers to participate (full disclosure: this writer is married to one of them — and it isn’t Kurt Andersen — though man, wouldn’t that be great?). They’ve just launched with the first five stories, which are all mighty fine reads. Keep it bookmarked so you can check out the rest as they continue to roll them out.