photographer Jasmine Archie decided to make herself a cake for her birthday – the thing is she doesn’t actually like eating cake, so she made a fake one. and so, Pretty Shitty Cakes was born. these decorative pieces have taken off and are selling out on her website. her cakes can hang on your wall, …
Rop van Mierlo is a Dutch artist who started experimenting with painting animals using a wet on wet technique during his senior thesis at design school (well he actually started since he was a kid, read more on that here). he wanted to depict wild animals in an untameable way, and so Wild Animals was …
As soon as the weather starts cooling down here in South Africa i have an insatiable need to head to the Karoo. nothing, nothing beats a Karoo winter. Growing up our family used to take road trips into central South Africa during our long winter school holidays, so I’ve had an appreciation for Karoo dorpies …
When last were you in an art museum? I’m sitting in a cold and rainy Cape Town right now, observing parts of the US and Europe hopefully reaching the tail-end of the pandemic and starting to open up as their summer approaches. All I can think about is the same happening for us, and possibly …
hey! here’s a new music mix for you. TO BE HONEST AND FULL DISCLOSURE i have been listening to a LOT of music that is trending on Tik Tok these days. haha! it just makes me happy, what can i say? i’m very much into “non serious” music at the moment. i mostly listen to …
maybe it’s just a South African thing, but interesting candles are having a moment right now. is it the same where you live? i just see new and cool ones popping up all the time, and it’s such a damn shame that you actually have to burn them…! i was gifted a pair of these …
these objects by Sophie Lou Jacobsen make me very happy and, simply, brighten my day. i will probably never own or see one in person but…! just glad to know they exist. and that is the energy i am taking with me into 2021 haha… oh she and her partner also have a super cool …
BRB just going to file this under my Things I didn’t know I needed: A Tiger Print Duster Coat moodboard. British designer Hayley Menzies started out with a stall at Portobello Market, and keeps her collections small and considered – but with maximalist tendencies. When I was growing up my parents couldn’t always afford the latest …
When last did you stay in a hotel? For many of us it’s probably been a loooooooooong time. We had a trip planned to Paris exactly a year ago, and about a month before the first lockdown, as the pandemic just began unfolding, we thought to ourselves, “do you think we could still go?” Oh …
When I saw this colourful kitchen transformation by Johannesburg based Arrange Studio i felt like I had to share it, if only because it might make someone as happy as it did me. We all need some cheer right now, don’t we? Arrange Studio were tasked to transform the space by Jayne Crawshay-Hall and Michael …