April 25, 2019 “Art can be dangerous, even when decorous” (Bridget Quinn, 2017). There are two senses that strike the most when confronted with art: sight and touch. The former goes without saying, but ultimately we feel, though there is no physical convergence by art (and design)- and that is what makes it so very […]
April 04, 2019 Words. We seem to ignore their power. Shivanee Ramlochan weaves her tapestries of words in such a fashion that each grabs your soul. Her book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting contains pages of poems that grasp different parts of your consciousness in a way that cannot be escaped. They actually haunt […]
March 11, 2019 Twas the week before Christmas when we paid a visit to up and coming Trinidadian artist Bianca Peake. Nestled in her indoor/outdoor studio, we switched on our recorders and began to capture Bianca’s stream of consciousness, as she explored coming of age as an artist, honing her craft and telling the stories […]
December 06, 2018 From the military to architecture to chocolate, it’s certainly been a unique and unpredictable journey for Cocobel creator Isabel Brash. This sensory designer and chocolatier invited us in to the Medulla Art Gallery on Fitt Street in Woodbrook, where her 2 year old daughter was being entertained by her all female team. […]
November 15, 2018 Once a vibrant space filled with makers and seamstresses and artists, the Maracas, St. Joseph birthplace of The Cloth is now a quiet space where founding designer Robert Young spends time reminiscing, reflecting and rejuvenating. The brand, that has always been a consistent staple of the Caribbean fashion landscape, has been on […]
October 26, 2018 Putting work out into the world to be judged is no easy task, but that’s the life we sign up for as artists and creatives. We think, we design, we make, we create, and then we publish, we exhibit. We have our creations walk the runways of life, all the while bracing […]
I’ve always been a great admirer of janice’s work and she was one of the first designers on our is ultimate christmas wish list.
September 20, 2018 Human behaviour and biology. Patterns, cloths and colours. They’re not necessarily groupings that you naturally associate with each other. Which is probably what makes the Enclothed Cognition collection so fascinating. The collaboration is the brainchild of Ulric + Arly’s Mark King and Noir Near Future’s Bregje Cox and explores an interesting space […]
July 16, 2018 Red orange, yellow green, blue violet, yellow orange… all singular colours in the Crayola box. None of them are quite one standard colour but all of them are surely a little bit of two. Acutean9le see this blending in themselves, in the society and communities around them and are highlighting this in […]
April 26, 2018 What does luxury mean in a place where it’s only ever meant something to a very limited few? — Now add ‘local’ into that equation. Kathryn Nurse’s Immortelle Beauty isn’t about the elite or the unattainable. It’s about marrying luxury and local in a Caribbean-based skin care brand inspired by the woman […]
