Private Collection: Teen Angst Journals
Life before blogging with five years of journals, dug up and explored.

What I (w)could buy, if I won
Real estate, art auctions and gadget drool, using "The Secret" method of winning.

Looking Back
Late 90s into the early 00s, lookbooks worth speaking about.

Tipping Point: Alexander Wang
Will 2010 be the year that the designer secures his standing within fashion's elite?

The Family, Richard Avedon.
The uncompromising austerity of the plain white background leaves no room to hide.

Invitations Only, Fashion Shows
Arc brings you these show invites from the early 2000s

Netflix Instants: Arc's Picks
Watching without a disc has become increasingly easier, and better. Watch these now.

Fashionable Anagram: Balmain
The creative chaos of a sole visionary is stolen and transformed into a global fashion brand.

Chair designed by Ross Lovegrove

What’s in a chair? Its design or the design of a human being? You can’t change or redesign the human form. Outside of facial plastic surgery and weight reduction the simple framework and function of what it means to be human cannot be altered by Karim Rashid or Philippe Starck. Designers create objects derived from us and out of those designs, will sometimes create new forms of human function. Design derivative design is nothing new of course, but recently some of the best designs, award-winning, famed designer designs are dependent upon a previously designed object that was also beautifully designed.

For the past three decades, Apple has prided itself on being one of the only advertisers to make the justified claim that their product speaks for itself. In much the same way that Irving Penn’s Clinique ads operated, the commercials proudly spoke ‘we don’t need to spin a story here, we’ve already got what we need’. When the need for a little humanity came along, we were given extreme personification with spinning iMacs that expectantly stuck their tongue, rewarding us for making the connection. When an actual human hit the scene, he wasn’t really given a scene, just some more white space. So why now the abundance of beige? With their latest iPad commercials, it’s as if Apple wants us to take a look at their product, then a look at their generic styling, and then come to the conclusion that what we are being sold is, well, pretty generic. Because, after all, what does the product itself have left to say?