Tag: ANIMAL London
Meet Frida Affer from Milan. This is her newly opened gallery on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch, amidst all the street art. It’s called Brooom, a play on broom closet, and measures only 168 cubic feet which is equal to about 30 square feet. Turns out that “the shoebox space” it’s just enough room to give that artist, designer […]
The amount of street art in Shoreditch is palpable. It’s all over, creating an almost Disney-like atmosphere as tourists of all ages walk the streets with their smart phones in hand, snapping photos, even if they have no idea who exactly they’re shooting. A lot of the work continually going up in the East London […]
An artist in London is presumably warning drivers about the impending dangers shitting pigeons present to cars.(Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
New York City recently launched its bike share program amidst a barrage of alarmist fanfare and apocalyptic predictions from the local tabloids. The naysayers claim that injuries will dramatically increase and warn that the bike docks will wreak havoc on the character of the city’s historic neighborhoods. Some even went so far as to suggest […]
Dirty Dicks, one of London‘s many colorfully-named pubs. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Why is this man wearing the Victoria Line subway seat pattern, sitting in a Victoria Line subway seat? It’s been “Done.” “Everything’s been fucking done before. That’s kind of how the name came about” says Will Rowley-Conwy to ANIMAL, the original founder of streetwear-ish t-shirt company Done London. The 24-year-old was born and raised in […]
Mark, Camden. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A cheeky artist needles the favorable status Banksy’s work gets in London. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
London is notorious for its network of CCTV cameras. The surveillance efforts are ubiquitous, Orwellian and frighteningly advanced: Authorities can watch and track people, from camera to camera, all over the city. While New York City is moving in the same direction, at least in London a menagerie of signs has been deployed to remind the […]
For the next two weeks, ANIMAL will be highlighting the people who are doing it up proper in London, from artists and musicians to filmmakers, cycling proponents and vegan cooks. Even our our beloved pigeons will be speaking British. This city is bubbling with culture and we hope to show you the side of it that […]
