Music

Ryuichi Sakamoto — Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

In honour of Sakamoto, who died on April 3, 2023.

Film

Wes Anderson —Asteroid City

Design

Fran Silvestre Arquitectos — Valencia

The ultra-minimalist home sits within the structure of a 20th-century building in Valencia, Spain. The strong lines form a contrast between modernism and heritage, read and see more at Dezeen.

Marimekko & Sabine Finkenauer

The Finnish design house collaborates with the German artist in a series of homeware objects and textiles that bring a bright pop of colour without overpowering an environment. Find out more from Wallpaper*

Culture

Aww Inc. - Virtual Human

Aww Inc is a modelling agency based in Japan with entirely virtual models. Known for their top model ‘imma,’ they used real humans as the base upon which their computers would overlay their digital models' AI-generated faces and poses.

However, now Aww Inc. has launched ‘AI Ria’ the agency’s first fully virtual model using the Stable Diffusion image generator.