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Studio 40Mustaqel challenges the discourse of design in the Arab Swana region
Identity
2016
La Tigre creates an imposing yet playful identity for visual culture exhibition Italianism
Project
2013
Studio Audience: This week there's sex, sculpture and rock n' roll
Publication
2023
Boy.Brother.Friend's fifth issue delves into themes of ‘rituals’ and ‘ceremony’
Project
2018
Emotional States: why the theme for 2018's London Design Biennale is more important than ever
Project
2017
April Diary: where to go and what to see
Project
2019
Dal Park animates the cultural differences between herself and her Korean grandmother
Project
2021
For Heartbeats of a Cave, Somnath Bhatt returns to metaphors that are unseen but can be felt
Project
2011
Taizo Yamamoto: Shawarmas
Project
2020
Manju Journal on what it means to be part of the African aesthetic today
Motion
2019
Meji Alabi on discovering his roots through film and music
Project
2019
Funny, thoughtful and educational, Gossamer is about much more than just cannabis
Project
2011
Drawn to the Table
Project
2024
Pernod Ricard’s illustrators in residence 2024 explore the global cultural nuances of sharing a tipple
Project
2011
Canada: Ice Cream
Project
2007
Tamara Shopsin
Project
2016
February diary: Where to go and what to see
Project
2023
Artist Yin Ming uses ping pong as a metaphor for the act of code switching
Project
2017
Artist Rivane Neuenschwander’s latest show explores Latin American culture through flags
Project
2022
1413 is back with another playful ode to Chinese culture – this time focusing on medicine and wellness
Publication
2024
The Gourmand gives lemons their time in the limelight
Project
2012
Ioana Cîrlig and Marin Raica get under the skin of post-communist Romania
Project
2018
February diary: where to go and what to see
Project
2018
Eating the Other explores the western fascination with Chinese traditional dress
Project
2009
Aneel Kalsi
Project
2023
Through still life photography, Minh Ngọc Nguyễn examines South-East Asian stereotypes
Project
2011
Sherif Elhage
Project
2012
Going bananas with bold, beautiful flag designs from About
Project
2019
Clifford Jago returns with a bizarre, confusing but altogether joyful trip through Ukraine
Project
2019
Protests, cute culture and the UK’s fruit market: Suzy Chan on her innovative design practice
Project
2023
Sun Ho Lee designs the ephemeral experiences of cultural “inbetweeners”
Project
2021
How Ikkonz Jin learned to appreciate East Asian culture over lockdown through illustration
Project
2011
Dante Fried Chicken
Project
2019
Mahaneela and Lunga Ntila photographically illustrate three facets of modern love
Project
2019
Zine series Passport Editions focuses on a different country's myths and legends for each issue
Project
2018
Photographer Ioanna Sakellaraki's Aidos series explores the importance of shame in Greek culture
Project
2012
Todd Eberle's precise, analytical style reveals America's soul
Photograph
2022
Quilo is a 300-page ode to the untold story of Brazilian visual culture
Project
2012
Keith Loutit/Jarbas Agnelli: The City of Samba
Project
2018
“Create a flag which represents your own Island”: explore culture through design in our latest Insta brief
Project
2012
Let Mark Alor Powell give you a tour of the weirder side of Mexico...
Identity
2019
Banana Magazine sheds light on the complexities of Asian identity
Project
2017
Ahmet Unver uses photography to explore his Swedish and Turkish roots
Project
2018
Kajet is the new journal exploring all things Eastern European
Project
2022
Photographer Johnny Man views the world through a perceptive, sociological lens
Identity
2019
Sean Alexander Geraghty talks identity and traditions with Cuba’s diminishing Chinese population
Project
2018
Photographer Fred Lahache captures Morocco through the eyes of his childhood friend
Project
2016
October Diary: where to go and what to see
Project
2012
MOCA presents an online resource exploring the art movement that literally changed the world
Project
2017
Undertakers, sex, caravans and cattle: photographer Robert Rutoed's adventures at trade fairs
Project
2021
Photographer Kemka Ajoku tells stories of Black British culture and experience