Start your glorious Bank Holiday weekend with the Weekender!

Date
22 May 2015

It’s Bank Holiday weekend and one of our favourite things to do is bake up a buttery storm and shove cakes into our loved ones’ pie-holes. To bake the perfect Weekender, the recipe is simple; three cups of amazing work, two cups of creative sweetener and one cup of Friday excitement, finished off with a dusting of whimsy from the world wide web. Bake for one hour at gas mark fun-time and you’ve got yourself a wholesome, well-risen Weekender cake. So indulge and cut yourselves a sexy slice because the Weekender is BIG on taste but LIGHT in calories!

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Aleksandra Kingo: A Heart Disease Called Love, La Monda magazine

- Aleksandra Kingo finds inspiration in Wes Anderson, the 70s and online platforms in her slick, surreal photographs.

- Shannon Lea’s clever book design for three Philip Larkin collections is simple and thoughtful. So much so they were awarded a D&AD New Blood Pencil this week too – well done Shannon!

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Alexey Kondakov: The Daily Life Of Gods

- Alexey Kondakov Photoshops figures from classical art and places them in empty cafes and dirty bus stations in this fantastic series.

- For all you lucky lot coming to this year’s Here, we announced our final speaker as Graham Linehan the creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd.

- You’ve got until Sunday 31 May to enter your work for a chance to be a 2015 It’s Nice That Graduate, so if you’re a final year student on an art or design-related course in the UK, we want to hear from you!

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Grayson Perry and FAT Architecture: House for Essex

- If you’ve not watched Grayson Perry’s Dream House on catch-up yet, do it this weekend. This week our online editor Emily Gosling wrote about why the work is more than public art but a celebration of the everywoman.

- Illustrator Jan Buchczik gave some sound words of advice for creatives looking for commissions, including this gem: “Get off the internet, have fun with drawing.”

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Mouthfeel Magazine

- Mouthfeel is a new mag that gives food writing a gay voice, editor Mac Malikowski explains how the idea came about.

- Rob Alderson fights for Marcel’s ugly fruit campaign and explains why it’s a worthy winner of this year’s Designs of the Year.

- London’s largest ever photography fair Photo London, opened this week so we tackled it head-on and picked out some of the best things we saw.

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American Airlines poster, via Wired.com

- The lost glamour and excitement of air travel is brought back with Matthias C. Huhne’s new book, Airline Visual Identity, which documents the influx of big designers creating ads for the top airlines from 1945-1975. Here Wired tell us five of their favourite stories from the book and the accompanying gallery of ads is fantastic.

- The Paris Review gave us this brilliant clip from 1974 of Orson Welles reminiscing about his “friendship” with Ernest Hemingway.

- As part of their At Work with Designers series, this week magCulture took us to work with Mirko Borsche as the designer prepared for a special edition of Zeit Magazin.

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Picasso and Lee Miller

- AnOther tipped us off about a new show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery all about the intimate friendship between Picasso and renowned war photographer Lee Miller.

- If you’re after a dose of cult fashion, Dazed Digital created this Top 10 of Youtube’s most obscure and bizarre fashion clips.

Rob Alderson

Late night American chat shows are pretty baffling to us Brits but even we understood that it was a big deal when David Letterman bowed out from his eponymous show this week. Played out by the Foo Fighters, I am happy to admit I got quite emotional watching the clips from down the decades.

Beccy Fulleylove

Since Comedy Central has been showing Friends on repeat, I find myself putting it on in the background while I’m doing household chores. While I know the jokes of pretty much every episode off by heart now, i-D has tracked down the ultimate Friends fan in the form of Gunther (not his real name). After a bad break-up Gunther was encouraged to watch Friends to teach him how to love again, and he fell head over heels for the whole programme and its characters. This lovely film shows us Gunther’s very own Central Perk he’s created in Bejing and the super fans that have flocked to his Friends Mecca. SO SWEET.

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Mad Men Integrated

Alex Hawkins

Mad Men may be over, but if you’re not quite ready to say goodbye to Don Draper and seven super slick seasons of suits, chain-smoking and boozy lunches This Tumblr reimagines the show in the digital age –buzzwords, social media, Tinder and all.

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Rebecca Fulleylove

Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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