In the aftermath of the Ivory Coast humanitarian and political crisis, there is a fashion label bringing hope to the country. The concept behind LaurenceAirline is based on how fashion and ethnic cultures can successfully collaborate to create possibilities for the future.
Thom Browne is an American fashion designer based in New York City.
Nicole du Plessis, based in Western Cape, isn’t a stranger to us, she has a profile on onesmallseed.net and does great work for Blackbird design. You could not say she is just a designer she really knows how to handle herself through Photography too. Design isn’t just a job for her, it’s who she is!...
Officials at Orchard School in San Jose, CA, United States chose to improve their outdated campus library. Improving student access to technology, providing adequate space for a growing book collection and creating a central focus for the school were the organizers primary goals. The result is a modern building that is attractive for both students...
February’s first album of the week is ‘travels..’ by Johannesburg based one small seed community member Elsa Bleda Join the onesmallseed.net community to begin uploading your own work, exchange comments and network with other artists!! Check out the album HERE
Cloud Nothings were formed by university student Dylan Baldi in Cleveland, Ohio in 2009. Although they certainly sound like a band of middle-American youngsters, they don’t necessarily sound like a band of this year, as Attack On Memory would not have seemed out of place had it been released any time over the last two...
A few years ago, three friends from Kenyatta University in Nairobi decided to make music together. Bill Sellanga, Dan Muli and Jim Chuchu adopted the unassuming name ‘Just a Band’ and released their first album Scratch to Reveal in 2008. The Huffington Post called their 2009 album, 82, ’the sign of a generational shift’ but...
A man of memes, music, words, life… Markus Wormstorm is a solipsist still smiling. Wormstorm was signed at 19 to the New York based record label Sound-Ink – which triggered a sequence of other events and collaborations that would influence the next ten years of his life. Check out an interview we did with Markus...
UNKLE was formed in the mid-nineties by two British school friends, Tim Goldsworthy and James Lavelle. They were joined by DJ Shadow, Money Mark (the Beastie Boys’ keyboardist), the Scratch Perverts and Japanese hip-hop crew Major Force. Goldsworthy left after a year because of artistic differences with Lavelle, and UNKLE has since seen many changes...
‘Girls. All I really want is Girls.’ So, the Beastie Boys rapped it, but we’re all feeling it. Or her, rather. Meet Safiyya Bryce aka Funafuji… Cape Town’s little lass whose doing big things, things that make us sweat and smile. Dropping it like the boys and throwing in some extra cheeky feminine flare, she...
Juan Pierre Coleman is a rambunctious music man, master of all things creative and perhaps one of the hardest, most focused individuals you will come across. An analogue junkie, he has scourged the Cape Town electronic music scene with joyous abandon, composing musical banter and bristling, electronic dialogues.
I am not of course referring to the actual English alphabet, but rather the garage rock band based in Jo’burg. The four-piece band consists of Adam Edwards on vocals, Justin Gent on drums, Hugh Hunt on bass and Phil Klawansky on guitar and vocals.
Some refer to WeSC as the ‘clothing label for the intellectual slacker,’ which conjures up nostalgia of that Jason Lee – Mallrats/Chasing Amy era. We are the Superlative Conspiracy is a street fashion brand based in Sweden.
