After 55 years in publication, America’s foremost design publication, I.D Magazine (not UK fashion title i-D) has folded. I.D. was the oldest product design magazine in the US (since 1954), its yearly design competition, the Annual Design Review, was the oldest and biggest design competition in America, and had been operating ever since I.D.’s inception. F+W, I.D.’s publisher, plans on continuing the event and publishing the results online. Meanwhile, I.D.’s sister magazine print (The oldest design magazine in the US since 1940) will stay open.
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Self-portraits of incredible strength and beauty, young photographer Clare Bottomley became fascinated by Greek mythology. To an extent these fables depict how we live our lives by deeming what we think is right or wrong. She applied this moralistic simplicity to modern society where sometimes morals can be lost behind a barricade of political correctness, bureaucracy and within personal relationships.
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Young photographer Muiread MacNabb shot these jockeys, who symbolise warriors going out to battle or the hero of the day, if they win. They are mainly young boys who have a passion for riding horses.
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A new wave of Chinese musicians is taking Beijing by storm, they now constitute a fresh, independent voice in a country renowned for creative conformity and saccharine Cantonese pop. In Sound Kapital, freelance photographer Matthew Niederhauser captures the energy of the performers involved in this innovative orgy gripping Beijing’s music underground. BTW, there are some morbid but engrossing illustrations by Chinese illustrator and graphic novelist Chairman Ca 张诗浩 in this book.
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San Francisco based artist Sylvia Ji encapsulated an alluring beauty, hauntingly beautiful images brimming with sexual provocation mix with a sense of consternation.
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December 3, Chanel’s first fashion show in Shanghai, published the newest Paris Shanghai collection on the edge of the Huangpu river. The night sky is alight with neon – translucent, surreal, glittering in a way that Karl Lagerfeld described as “magical, with colors that look somehow different to Europe, and a kind of transparency about them”.
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Not new faces, Next faces! City Magazine featured 28 boys and girls you are going to adore in 2010. The models of 2010 shot by Tim Zaragoza, and styled by Julie Ragolia.
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