Cake Deco

What follows is something of a fable from design lore. In late 2005, 30 photographers, illustrators and designers from several different countries got...

Oh for the innocence of youth. Those salad days of untainted, unbridaled joy. When excitement lay under the doona as opposed to regret and anxiety about...

Lyndal Walker's Stay Young is one of the current shows in the still freshly renovated CCP. It sees the Melbourne-scenester photographer continue her...

Polyester Records has secured real estate in Fitzroy long enough for it to be as familiar as family. We all know the drill. You walk in, chat to the store...

Aktifmag is closer to home than a MySpace stalker. Dissecting Australian culture with a meat cleaver, one thing is for sure - no one is safe. Ask...

When Scott Walker: 30 Century Man opens with the myth of Orpheus and the Underworld, you can't help be reminded of the tongue-in-cheek 'Icarus' opening...

Like a gay lion, the sticky date pudding was once a humble beast. Content to sit on its own, quietly appearing on the menus of certain pubs and upper-middle-class...

Ripple is a new Melbourne-based project that has found a cunning way of redirecting internet advertising profits to charity. This enables you (kind...

Mark Barrage's new album is much more avant-Krautrock than dance anthem, no matter how much the onesheet tries to tell you otherwise. One of Melbourne's...

I used to think audio tours were lame. All those people smugly strolling around galleries, wearing headphones, getting told what to think. I prefer my...

Air Force brat Dene Lawson grew up all over the United States, leaving a trail of blushing Susans, Debbies and Anns in his wake.

He was a heart-breaking...

With a name like Niffenegger, Audrey could only have been an author or a scientist. Coincidently she has written a cracker of a science fiction-esque...

Described as the closest he'll ever get to writing an autobiography, Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick looks at the luxuries of life and the luxuries that...

Experimentation, fun and fancy have long been the trademarks that have separated Marc Jacobs from most American designers. From his collections to...

A glance at the Everything Ecstatic cover art might make us think that Four Tet has suffered from an Art Attack. Whether or not blip-wizard Kieran...

Canvas Magazine is the love child of a fashion fanatic and her design savvy boyfriend. Straight out of Le’Brisbane, Canvas covets high-fashion...

For a country of over 9 million people, Sweden certainly exports a lot of culture. Cheap Monday... Ingmar Bergman... IKEA... ABBA...

Another astounding...

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Pimm’s is a drink best served en masse.

The nectar of toffs, dandies and fops alike, it was invented...

The Hirokazu Kore-eda retrospective at MIFF gives you the chance to see Distance, which is an inexplicable attempt at a horror film with all the...

It’s happened to us all. A friend returns from overseas, clothed in next season’s fashion, you fall in love with a top/dress/bag, ask where...