Category: Books & Film

  • Spectrum

    Spectrum

    John Pawson’s Not-So-Secret Love of Colour On the initial publishing of Spectrum by Phaidon in 2017, audiences were surprised, charmed and delighted to discover that the well celebrated British architect John Pawson is not only an avid photographer, but loves colour. Up until then, Pawson had mostly known for his all white aesthetics and minimalist…

  • Pack of Dogs

    Pack of Dogs

    Canines, Music and Authentic Style Michael Gillette’s new book Pack of Dogs, published in August this year, is an ode to some of the most influential musicians of the century – through the lens of their canine doppelgängers. Michael’s idea to recreate some of his favourite musicians as canines, stemmed from a chance encounter with…

  • Physical Intimacy and Emotional Distancing

    Physical Intimacy and Emotional Distancing

    A Novel Approach to Street Photography In his new book In Your Face, British photographer Paul Trevor presents a collection of close-up street portraits captured in London between 1977 and 1992. Shot in Brick Lane and central London, the photos speak to the tense class divide of the Thatcher era and Paul purposely focuses the…

  • Portrait of Britain

    Portrait of Britain

    Meet the People of Today’s Britain Portrait of Britain is an annual photography competition and exhibition organised by British Journal of Photography, which features outstanding portraits of the people of Britain as captured by participating photographers. This year’s Portrait of Britain will also be manifest in book form. The wildly popular cultural project, now in…

  • Chair: 500 Designs That Matter

    Chair: 500 Designs That Matter

    Explore This Collection of the World’s Most Innovative and Inventive Chairs Phaidon has released a book that collects 500 essential, and incredibly varied, different designs of one of the most versatile platforms for design experimentation and innovation of any everyday object: the chair. Chair: 500 Designs That Matter charts chairs from designers all over the…

  • Botanical

    Botanical

    Meet the Photographer Capturing the Serenity of Europe’s Greenhouses Since the last time we spoke to him in the midst of a photography series in Berlin Swiss fine art photographer Samuel Zeller has spent two years travelling around Europe photographing exotic plants through frosted greenhouse glass for a new book published by Hoxton Mini Press.…

  • Colouring Creativity Gone Wild

    Colouring Creativity Gone Wild

    This Illustrator Takes You through an Exotic Forest on a Journey of Creative Discovery Creativity is a lifelong expedition. At least, this is what Sussex-based illustrator Daisy Fletcher reminds us with her new, visually enticing colouring book, Into the Wild. Fresh off the back of her success with Birdtopia (Daisy’s 2016 book that provided a…

  • A Century of Illustrious Creativity

    A Century of Illustrious Creativity

    The Influence of Fashion On The 20th Century’s Greatest Illustrators With an array of titles to her name covering the ebbs and flows of fashion’s illustrious history Cally Blackman was really the only person who could have written 100 Years of Fashion Illustration. In her book Cally uses the work of illustrators such as Georges…

  • A Long Look at Colouring Books

    A Long Look at Colouring Books

    We Share our Favourite Offerings from the World of Illustration Gone are the days in which colouring books were reserved for the furious scribblings of messy kids. It’s the 21st Century, and beautiful colouring books are being brought out every month for the furious scribbling of messy (or otherwise!) adults, too. We love creativity and…

  • All A-Board: Recipes for Summer Bites

    All A-Board: Recipes for Summer Bites

    How Using Platters Can Spice Up your Cookery Diving into charcuterie boards at restaurants captivated Delicious Gratitude‘s eco-food and lifestyle stylist Anni Daulter with their appetising combination of beauty and finger-food variety. From there, the seed was planted for her original cookbook Bites on a Board, dedicated to the hands-on combination of rustic finesse and…