Massproductions develops high quality, tactile furniture in a modernist spirit. The two experienced designers, Englishman Chris Martin and Swede Magnus Eleback, formed Massproductions, after ten years working side by side as consultant for the furniture industry. With their accumulated knowledge from these years, they took the next step by producing and marketing their own collections [...]

AVANT CAR GUARD are a Johannesburg-based three member visual art collective, exhibiting and authoring as a singular artist. They are comprised of Zander Blom, Jan-Henri Booyens and Michael MacGarry, all individual artists in their own right. They have produced three publications on their work, titled Volume I, Volume II and Volume III respectively, and have [...]

Wonderful paintings by Esther Pearl Watson:

I am not very well-traveled. Even though one of my to-do items is to travel to as many places around the world as possible, I am simply not able to do so at this point in my life. As such, I turn to photography. With the rise of Google Earth, Flickr and Photosynth has enabled [...]

Although I have never tried my hands in sculpture before and do not know the tools and processes involved to make a piece come alive, ancient sculptures never cease to amaze me. The level of detail and expression, coupled with a unforgiving medium, achieved with only simple tools, is simply mind-boggling. The ‘Undo’ function I [...]

Even though I like to think that I have an eye for abstract minimalism, I feel completely dwarfed in comparison to artists who painstakingly formulate their work to take on a deceivingly simple and straightforward aesthetic. Andy Collins is one such artist.
Andy Collins’s paintings are lusciously synthetic. Cold and glossy, his large pastel canvases are [...]

The Charlottetown Conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, for representatives from the colonies of British North America to discuss Canadian Confederation. The conference took place between 1–9 September 1864. The above image is of delegates of the Charlottetown Conference on the steps of Government House.
Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federal [...]