Elena’s Give Me 5!
5+3 essential recommendations from a Mucho Designer. Elena is a graphic designer whose personality is pretty much based on internet memes. She loves music — from The Magnetic Fields to Arca — as well as fashion, and is known for her Y2K-inspired outfits.
A Flamenco Catharsis
Magazine
A magazine that offers a new perspective on flamenco tradition.
Website: shop.aflamencocatharsis.com
Instagram: @a.flamenco.catharsis
Ruta del Bakalao
Cultural Movement
A cultural movement that hides many graphic design secrets worth appreciating.
More info: Ruta Gráfica
Cristóbal Hara
Photographer
The vibrant images of this photographer narrate the history of Spain, a country marked by its cultural contrasts.
Website: www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/autor/hara-cristobal
Instagram: #crsitobalhara
Taipei Story
Movie
A mournful odyssey of one couple’s promising future slowly eroded in the changing landscape of China’s consumer culture. Directed by Edward Yang in 1985.
Website: Movie info
Instagram: #Taipeistorymovie
PC Music
Record label
Not only a record label, but perhaps just as importantly, a visual art collective that is turning the music industry inside out.
Instagram: @pcmus
“Souvenir d’un Futur”
Photography
by Laurent Kronental
A brutalist take on the romantic Paris we are all familiar with.
Website: Souvenir-d’un-Futur
Instagram: @laurentkronental
Nike Shox and Crime
Design
Made by Sometimes Always, a graphic design-art direction studio, this is an extract from Adolf Loos seminal’s “Ornament and Crime” where every incident of the word “ornament” had been replaced by “nike shox”.
Website: Sometimes Always
Instagram: #nikeshoxandcrime
