DrawFor launches new partnership with Papyrus
DrawFor has begun campaigning for mental health support and suicide prevention, teaming up with UK charity Papyrus to raise cash for national helplines. If you haven’t heard of DrawFor, a new organisation that raises money for charity through selling original artwork, then now’s the perfect time to get involved. We...
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How Burning Man is going virtual in 2020
Burning Man organisers are trying to create a digitally accessible event while remaining true to its anti-corporate routes. It’s a tough balancing act. If you’ve never been to Burning Man, the annual festival that takes place in the deep Nevada desert, you probably associate it with intense dance music...
Club Quarantäne offers virtual Berlin club nights during lockdown
The website lets clubbers queue up, visit bathrooms, and even get turned away by bouncers, all to raise money for charity. Are you missing the sticky and cramped dance floors of nightclubs? Craving the heavy bass beats of an underground DJ? While I can’t promise you’ll be able to do...
The ‘Karen’ meme set to become a horror movie
From phone screens to the big screen. Is there a more terrifying villain in modern times than Karen? One of 2020’s real life boogeymen, ‘Karen’ has become a pseudonym for the privileged, pedantic (and often bob donning) busybody that preaches anti progressive views online and generally just litters comment sections...
Matrix director confirms the film is a transgender allegory
Lilly Wachowski, co-director of the Matrix films, says the film originally intended to reflect transgender experiences more explicitly - but the ‘world wasn’t ready for it’. The Matrix was considered a sci-fi classic almost instantaneously when it was released in 1999. Neo’s journey from average office worker to all-seeing oracle...
How the Big Mac Index helps to value currency
Economics can be a tricky thing to get your head around, but comparing prices of Big Mac’s around the world can help. This week, The Economist published its yearly Big Mac Index, which compares prices of McDonald’s favourite burger between countries and values their currencies accordingly. The report suggests...
Billie Eilish celebrates Gen Z and digital activism in new campaign
Fronted by Billie Eilish, the uplifting #WhatWeDoNext ad campaign refutes preconceptions that Gen Z are out of touch thanks to modern devices and social media. Renowned as digital natives, Gen Z are no strangers to getting flak from their elders for being glued to their phone screens and ‘wasting time’. But today, on UN International Youth Day, an ad campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi has dropped with the intention of...
Get the lockdown look: face masks the next big thing in fashion
Now an essential part of everyone's daily wardrobe, face masks are being embraced by fashion as a lucrative new product category with huge potential. Amongst 2020’s unexpected twists and turns is the mainstreaming of face masks which, both fashionable and functional, are taking the apparel industry by storm. Currently a wardrobe staple, designers and high street retailers alike are beginning to realise the potential of tapping into the lucrative market,...
Exclusive – Meet Ketnipz, the Instagram sensation spreading positivity and mental wellness
At the age of just 21, Harry Hambley has already become an internet sensation through spreading positivity and mental wellness one doodle at a time. An afternoon Zoom call with Harry Hambley (aka Ketnipz) had me rifling through old school planners to see if my brainless scribbles had any kind of value or potential. In the least surprising revelation of 2020, they did not. From personal experience of the comprehensive schooling...
Scientists have discovered how to grow coloured cotton
Australian scientists have discovered how to grow naturally coloured cotton, a breakthrough that could finally help fashion curb its addiction to harmful chemical dyes. In a major win for clothing sustainability, Australian scientists have found a way to crack cotton’s molecular code so that it grows naturally in a range of vibrant hues. On a mission to transform the global textiles industry as we know it, CSIRO’s discovery could be...
