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Pentagram's Abbott Miller relaunches 90s dance mag Dance Ink  

Pentagram partner Abbott Miller has relaunched the quarterly dance magazine that he edited and directed, 20 years after it was first published.

Originally started by Miller in 1989 along with publisher Patsy Tarr, the two of them have picked up where they left off with Dance Ink in 1996, with the publication of Volume 8, Number 1.

The magazine, which developed a cult following among dancers, photographers and designers in the 1990s, has also expanded its remit to include additional formats. Two large-scale posters will be produced with every issue, and single or multiple images are designed to be used as wall murals.

Transparency is one of the key themes of the new issue it comes in a clear sleeve, while the design plays with the transparency of ink on the page, “suggesting layers of performance and motion”, according to Miller.

The format consists of a single collaboration with a photographer and performer, and the look will vary from issue to issue.

Volume 8, Number 1 is limited to a run of 500 copies, and can be purchased online here.

We speak to Miller to find out more about the Dance Ink relaunch and the design inspiration behind it.

Design Week: Was the relaunch something you've wanted to do for a while?

Abbott Miller: For many years the 2wice Arts Foundation has been operating on a schedule of producing one or two projects a year, depending on the complexity and expense of the projects.

Our last three endeavors were a series of digital apps (Fifth Wall, Dot Dot Dot, and Passe Partout) that were really exciting but also fairly complicated and expensive. We recalled how direct and comparatively inexpensive print is and we thought we would make a return to something tangible and seductive.

DW: Why was it important for you to pick up where you left off with Volume 8, Number 1?

AM:That was more a perverse sense of humour! We liked the idea that you could pick up where you left off despite the passage of 20 years. It was a way for us to continue a story and a mission, but with new characters.

DW: What was the main inspiration behind the design of the magazine?

AM: A kind of complex simplicity a feeling of bareness and focus that feels a little bit like starting from zero. I had a funny struggle with going back in time, and my way around it was to maintain the notion of pacing and rhythm in the layouts, but have more restraint in the type.

The biggest component was to honour our original idea of making dance happen on the page, so the shoot is really conceived for a sequence that transpires in the scale and sequence of the magazine.

DW: What are the key design features and why have you included them?

AM: I used colour in a specific way, where the imagery is primarily black and white, but it is reproduced in CMYK to give it a beautiful depth. The type allows hints of that colour to show through. In one feature there is a slippage between different layers of the letters so they create overall dark letterforms, but there are edges that reveal the magenta, yellow, and cyan to be perceived.

In another feature the tattered oriental carpet is present in most of the images. I asked Christian Witkin to shoot direct overhead details of the carpet and used those to create layered letterforms that incorporated the CMYK layers to create a distinctive texture within the letterforms.

I saw these as subtle ways to introduce colour in a largely black and white world. The restraint of those contrasts with the full-on red world of the last dance sequence, which feels more powerful because of the importance of red in the costume that Robert Rauschenberg designed for Merce Cunningham, which was performed in the issue by Silas Riener.

DW: Why have you decided to expand its remit to include new formats such as posters and murals?

AM: All media is now multi-media. We are now accustomed to the translation of images and texts from one medium to another. That is a different type of elasticity than what existed when we published the original Dance Ink, and we liked the idea of offering other ways of seeing the imagery we'd developed with Christian Witkin.

The wallpaper mural format allows someone to incorporate the imagery into an architectural space. Having designed several wallpaper patterns, and doing a lot of environmentally-scaled work, I was interested in the idea of a magazine that could become a part of an architectural space.

DW: How has the dance community changed since you first set up the magazine, and how have you relaunched the magazine to reflect this?

AM: The biggest difference is generational there is a totally new generation of artists from when we last published. The other difference is that the promotion of dance and performance has become more sophisticated. Whether small companies, individual choreographers, or big organisations, the use of video as a creative tool is now pretty standard.

The other difference is what seems to be a kind of renaissance of choreography, especially in the classical arena. Originally Dance Ink was far more aligned with modern and contemporary dancers and choreographers because that was where the creative focus was, whereas now you are seeing large classical ballet companies commissioning young choreographers like Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Benjamin Millipied, Jessica Lang, and Lauren Lovette. That just means we may have more of a complex mixture of forms in the magazine.

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Theresa May's cabinet includes new Culture, Media and Sport secretary  

The UK's new Conservative prime minister Theresa May has announced her new cabinet, which includes a reshuffle of MPs in charge of culture and business.

The two main governmental departments which affect design businesses are Culture, Media and Sport, and Business, Innovation and Skills.

Culture, Media and Sport is in charge of protecting and promoting cultural sites and heritage, and investing in funds and innovation that enable creative businesses to grow.

John Whittingdale has been sacked as Culture, Media and Sport Secretary. He took up the post when the Conservatives won the general election last year and David Cameron entered his second term of office.

He has been superseded by Karen Bradley, a former Home Office minister who was a Remain supporter throughout the EU referendum.

Business, Innovation and Skills was previously in charge of economic growth, and invests in skills and education which aim to promote trade, boost innovation and also enable people to start and develop businesses.

The Business, Innovation and Skills department is now being “reshaped”, according to the BBC, with former BIS secretary Sajid Javid having been reappointed as Communities Secretary. Javid is also pro-Remain.

A new department has been created called Business, Energy and Industrial strategy, with Greg Clarke appointed as secretary. Clarke is also a Remain supporter.

10 Downing Street was unable to confirm at the time of publication whether Business, Innovation and Skills will continue to exist as a department in its own right.

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Ikea opens new immersive store in Reading  

Ikea has opened its first UK store for seven years in Reading, complete with sensory features designed to make it feel homelier.

The 32,000m² store, which opened in Thames Valley today, includes features such as fireplaces that smell of wood and which make crackling sounds.

“The sensory features help to bring our room sets to life, further helping our customers to imagine and feel how our products will look in their home,” says Ikea.

Rolling out sensory features in future stores

The furniture company has already introduced features such as these in its Cardiff store, and says it is looking to introduce them in future stores as well.

Of the 50 room sets that make up the new space, five of them come with ceilings designed to “give customers a clearer image of how products will look in [the] home”.

Visitors will also be able to try out a new Style Island concept, which help them to design a kitchen by creating a mood board for inspiration.

Local residents inspired the store design

Ikea says its key inspiration when designing the store was “the people of the Thames Valley”.

“Our dedicated team have carried out extensive home research in the region to ensure that each of the room sets in our store reflect real-life living situations of those who live nearby, whether it be room-sets that reflect clever storage solutions for children's toys in the living room or practical spaces for recycling bins in the kitchen.”

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Age of Design: exploring design-led businesses  

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5 important things that happened in design this week  

Network Rail announced its design would become more disability-friendly

National railway service Network Rail promised to better accommodate for people with disabilities this week, announcing a new inclusive design strategy.

The Spaces and Places for Everyone programme has been launched in order to improve services for people with disabilities, after research found that rail was the most used form of public transport by people with disabilities (67%), yet a quarter of these people felt travel by train was difficult for them.

Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne said he wants to create a national rail service where “everyone can travel equally, confidently and independently”.

The new guidelines have started to make headway, as new facilities for visually impaired people have already been implemented at Birmingham New Street and Reading stations. You can find the inclusivity document here.

A talk took place enabling female designers to share their stories

Last week, we ran a feature speaking to the founder of Hidden Women of Design a new talks programme which looks to raise the profile of female designers.

This week, a talk took place in Peckham, London, which allowed a female freelance designer, consultancy-based designer and design educator to share their stories.

The programme will continue to run, and includes Pecha Kucha-style evenings where each designer is given 20 minutes and 20 slides to talk about their career and work.

It hopes to encourage people to talk about women's representation in the design industry, says founder Lorna Allan. “Having groups of female designers promoting and supporting each other can make a difference,” she says.

Research showed the design industry is generally performing well financially

Annual research conducted by accountancy firm Kingston Smith across the marketing and creative sectors showed this week that the design sector is “performing well” and has “continued to grow this year”.

It found that its Top 30 design consultancies (based on financial results) have an increased amount of gross income compared to last year (£13.5 million more).

However, it also found that margins between fee income and expenditure had decreased, while employment costs had crept up compared to fee income.

You can see the full report here.

Nestlé revealed the design details of huge new exhibition space

Food and drink giant Nestlé opened a 3500m2 interactive exhibition space in Switzerland recently, to mark the company's 150th anniversary.

Nest is based in Nestlé founder Henri Nestlé's original 1866 factory in Vevy, Lake Geneva, and has been renovated by Swiss architectural practice Concept-Consult Architectes in a 45m (£38m) project.

This week, we spoke to the exhibition designers, Dutch consultancy Tinker Imagineers, about how they incorporated “organic” interior design alongside the industrial aesthetic of the venue.

The space is split into past, present and future zones, looking at the history and future possibilities of the brand, through ten different immersive exhibits.

BBC announced it was looking for designers

This week, the BBC published a tender saying it is seeking a team to design several of its most prevalent financial documents.

This would include its Annual Report and Accounts (ARA), full financial statements and six other print documents.

The broadcaster highlights the importance of this job, in that these reports play a key role in showing openness and transparency, and make the BBC's financial performance publicly available.

The contract value is £400,000, and will run for up to four years from December 2016 to December 2020. More details can be found here.

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Kristy Tillman: Inviting Yourself to the Table  

Have you ever had an idea that you wanted to be involved in and execute, but it never quite happened for you? For Tillman, Design Director for Society of Grownups, this was not only true for her, but at times it felt like the defining sentiment of her career. While we live in a world of interconnection, it's still so easy to feel like we're not making the impact that we'd like, or that we're not taking advantage of all of our opportunities. But instead of asking for permission or waiting for opportunities to magically unfold before us Kristy challenges us to make our own opportunities. How? By inviting yourself to the table.

Kristy Tillman currently serves as the Design Director for Society of Grownups, a Boston-based start-up whose mission is to democratize financial literacy for the young adult set. There she leads design teams dedicated to crafting exceptional experiences across both digital and physical platforms.

Prior to Society of Grownups, Kristy was a designer at IDEO, an award-winning global design consultancy where she helped solve design problems across a variety of industries including consumer product goods, finance, education, and healthcare. She also did a tour through the footwear industry as a product graphic designer at PUMA and Reebok.

Kristy believes in a future where design is a tool that aids undeserved communities in solving socio-cultural problems. As the former co-founder of the Detroit Water Project and founder of Tomorrow Looks Bright, Kristy has a strong commitment to furthering the accessibility of design.

She is an alumna of Florida A&M University.

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Designer: Gerard Huerta

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See more of the letterform artistry of Gerard Huerta (from A.C. to AC/DC) at MUBI's Movie Poster of the Week.

 
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Hubble Spots a Secluded Starburst Galaxy  
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), shows a starburst galaxy named MCG+07-33-027. This galaxy lies some 300 million light-years away from us, and is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high rate of star formation — a starburst.  
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Weekend Roundup: Global Rifts Harden Between the West, Russia and China  
The military uprising in Turkey and the attack in France signal a world in turmoil. Events elsewhere this week also mark an ominous historic turn of events. From two ends of the globe, geopolitical rifts have hardened. NATO recently announced the deployment of a missile shield and four new battalions in the front line states bordering Russia, prompting former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to say the West is preparing for a "hot war." A U.N. tribunal on maritime disputes declared on Tuesday that China has no legal basis for claiming sovereignty over shoals in the South China Sea also claimed by the Philippines, prompting Beijing, which sees the U.S. maneuvering behind the scenes, to react in anger and defiance.

"It will certainly intensify conflict and even confrontation," China's ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai, warned.

Both China and Russia decried America-allied South Korea's planned deployment of a new anti-missile defense system, also announced recently, as a strategic threat to their national security. We may not yet be in a new Cold War, but we have definitely entered a period of hot peace.

Writing from Moscow, Fyodor Lukyanov is blunt: "The spirit of the Cold War is back -- full scale." From Vladivostok, Artyom Lukin sees America's policy of "dual containment" of China and Russia continuing to "push[ ] them together to form an anti-Western quasi-alliance and, possibly, even recreating some conditions that, a century ago, led to World War I."

Writing from Beijing, He Yafei lays out China's view that the tribunal ruling has no binding authority. "The international standards of law and rules embodied in the U.N. Charter," he argues, "clearly stipulate that any disputes on sovereignty should be settled by disputants through consultation and negotiation based on international law and practices while respecting historical facts." In easy to understand graphics, this video produced by the Shanghai-based website Guancha similarly explains why China rejects the U.N. panel's ruling. Harvard's Graham Allison is not surprised that Beijing is ignoring the arbitration ruling. "None of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have ever accepted any international court's ruling when (in their view) it infringed on their sovereignty or national security interests," he says. "Thus, by rejecting the court's decision, China is doing just what the other great powers have repeatedly done for decades." Referring to the island disputes, Jennifer Harris argues that "China's entire strategy is predicated on the belief that exercising a military option in the next decade would simply prove too costly," and thus the only way for the U.S to stop Beijing's "belligerence" is through economic pressure.

Looking at the larger issue of China's role in the region, Richard Javad Heydarian writes from from Manila that, "the verdict puts into question China's claim to being a peaceful, responsible and law-abiding power, which also seeks leadership and respect in Asia and beyond. It now risks being branded as an outlaw." Also writing from Manila, Rommel Banlaoi suggests a bilateral agreement between China and the Philippines may be in the works. "While the ruling may give the Philippines the moral and legal victory on the arbitration," he notes, " the Duterte administration believes only in improving bilateral ties with China can the Philippines enjoy political victory."

Turning to the ongoing implosion of the European Union, Will Hutton writes from London that any Brexit negotiation by the new prime minister, Theresa May, that gives Great Britain access to Europe's single market "will require May's government to accept the freedom of movement of people as the quid pro quo -- precisely the opposite of the referendum result." Citing "Connectography" author Parag Khanna saying, "the EU countries are functionally inseparable, an egg that cannot be unscrambled." And he notes that, already, London's property market is crashing. HuffPost Reporter Daniel Marans explains how Brexit has unleashed new financial jitters across Europe, especially concerning the solvency of Italian banks.

In this video report, HuffPost Reporter Willa Frej joins an EU rescue mission off the coast of Lesbos, Greece that saved 26 people from drowning. Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden report on how African migrants, once numbering as many as 200,000 in Guangzhou, China, are returning home -- both because of stricter immigration laws and because it has just become too expensive to live in China these days. Mercy Corps' Deepmala Mahla pleads for the world not to forget Sudan as other crises overshadow it. "The international community must sustain its interest in South Sudan, " she writes from the capital, Juba. "The headlines will fade, but the needs will not. South Sudan is a country on a precipice, and all of our help and attention is needed now, and in the months to come, if this new country is to realize its bright future."

From Istanbul, WorldPost Middle East Correspondent Sophia Jones looks at the deteriorating condition of journalist John Cantlie, a captive of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, as he appeared in another one of the group's propaganda videos Artists around the world have responded to the terror attack in Nice. See their works below and here.

Une lectrice du @lemondefr nous envoie ce dessin après l'attaque de #Nice. Dire que l'été était arrivé... pic.twitter.com/mJdliTpDGX

-- Clément Martel (@martelclem) July 15, 2016

As part of our continuing series offering a platform for candidates aspiring to the post of U.N. Secretary General, Christiana Figueres, who shepherded the recent U.N. climate summit in Paris to a successful conclusion, presents her case. "People have lost trust that their lives can get better and that institutions are on their side," she writes. "This in turn is leading to apathy, depression, despair and in some cases to the development of radical views. This cycle must be stopped, before it consumes our collective future."

As the U.S. presidential race heats up with Donald Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by only four points in a new national poll, some of America's leading tech entrepreneurs signed this open letter saying "Trump would be a disaster for innovation."

HuffPost's Senior Tech Editor Damon Beres reports on the bizarre case of "Pokemon Go" enthusiasts heading to the remote South Korean town of Sokcho, on the North Korean border, because it is apparently the only place in South Korea where the mobile game works. These 360 degree photos of swimming with dolphins in Bimini, Bahamas to touring the Portage Glacier in Alaska immerse you in a virtual vacation without leaving home. Finally, our Singularity series this week shows how a 3-D bioprinter can make artificial bones from scratch.

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EDITORS: Nathan Gardels, Co-Founder and Executive Advisor to the Berggruen Institute, is the Editor-in-Chief of The WorldPost. Kathleen Miles is the Executive Editor of The WorldPost. Farah Mohamed is the Managing Editor of The WorldPost. Alex Gardels and Peter Mellgard are the Associate Editors of The WorldPost. Suzanne Gaber is the Editorial Assistant of The WorldPost. Katie Nelson is News Director at The Huffington Post, overseeing The WorldPost and HuffPost's news coverage. Charlotte Alfred and Nick Robins-Early are World Reporters. Rowaida Abdelaziz is World Social Media Editor.


CORRESPONDENTS: Sophia Jones in Istanbul.


EDITORIAL BOARD: Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels, Arianna Huffington, Eric Schmidt (Google Inc.), Pierre Omidyar (First Look Media), Juan Luis Cebrian (El Pais/PRISA), Walter Isaacson (Aspen Institute/TIME-CNN), John Elkann (Corriere della Sera, La Stampa), Wadah Khanfar (Al Jazeera), Dileep Padgaonkar (Times of India) and Yoichi Funabashi (Asahi Shimbun).


VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS: Dawn Nakagawa.


CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Moises Naim (former editor of Foreign Policy), Nayan Chanda (Yale/Global; Far Eastern Economic Review) and Katherine Keating (One-On-One). Sergio Munoz Bata and Parag Khanna are Contributing Editors-At-Large.


The Asia Society and its ChinaFile, edited by Orville Schell, is our primary partner on Asia coverage. Eric X. Li and the Chunqiu Institute/Fudan University in Shanghai and Guancha.cn also provide first person voices from China. We also draw on the content of China Digital Times. Seung-yoon Lee is The WorldPost link in South Korea.


Jared Cohen of Google Ideas provides regular commentary from young thinkers, leaders and activists around the globe. Bruce Mau provides regular columns from MassiveChangeNetwork.com on the "whole mind" way of thinking. Patrick Soon-Shiong is Contributing Editor for Health and Medicine.


ADVISORY COUNCIL: Members of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council and Council for the Future of Europe serve as the Advisory Council -- as well as regular contributors -- to the site. These include, Jacques Attali, Shaukat Aziz, Gordon Brown, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Juan Luis Cebrian, Jack Dorsey, Mohamed El-Erian, Francis Fukuyama, Felipe Gonzalez, John Gray, Reid Hoffman, Fred Hu, Mo Ibrahim, Alexei Kudrin, Pascal Lamy, Kishore Mahbubani, Alain Minc, Dambisa Moyo, Laura Tyson, Elon Musk, Pierre Omidyar, Raghuram Rajan, Nouriel Roubini, Nicolas Sarkozy, Eric Schmidt, Gerhard Schroeder, Peter Schwartz, Amartya Sen, Jeff Skoll, Michael Spence, Joe Stiglitz, Larry Summers, Wu Jianmin, George Yeo, Fareed Zakaria, Ernesto Zedillo, Ahmed Zewail and Zheng Bijian.


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Netflix's sci-fi throwback Stranger Things is Yesterday's Summer Blockbuster Today [A.V. Club] Stranger Things is stylish, beguiling, and eminently bingeable, but it isn't skeptic-proof. The Duffer brothers, who previously worked on Fox's surprisingly compelling Wayward Pines, should know by now that open-ended supernatural mysteries are going to dissuade some viewers, particularly those who have felt duped by such stories in the recent past. But anyone willing to push through their resistance will find a borderline hypnotic show that could be to this summer what USA's Mr. Robot was to last summer: a hyper-stylized niche series that feels essential even at its wobbliest.

- Stranger Things - Trailer 1 - Netflix [YouTube]
- Stranger Things - The Vanishing of Will Byers - Watch First 8 Minutes - Netflix [YouTube]

- Stranger Things Is a Scary, Poignant Piece of 1980s Nostalgia [Vanity Fair]

There's also an entirely engaging story happening here: a group of four friends, all nerdy boys of the Dungeons & Dragons varietal, is hurled into a supernatural mystery when one of them, kind and thoughtful Will (Noah Schnapp), goes missing. This frightening event coincides with some sort of incident at a nearby military-research facility, a looming, ominous presence that the sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana, doesn't seem all that aware of. Will's mother, played with convincing fire by none other than Winona Ryder, begins a mad hunt for her son, while his friends, led by Finn Wolfhard's (what a name!) Mike, embark on their own quest. Mike's sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), also gets involved, teen romance swirling around winningly with teen terror, as does the local sheriff, a shambly guy with a tragic backstory played with perfect underdog heroism by the great David Harbour.

- Stranger Things: The Excellent Netflix Show That's Going to Take Over Your Weekend [GQ]

Stranger Things is a show so '80s, it's almost tempting to make fun of it. Created with nostalgic affection by Matt and Ross Duffer, it looks like Spielberg, sounds like John Carpenter, and smells a bit like Stephen King. It feels like a scary story told over a campfire, about a thing that happened to a friend of a friend a long time ago, about what really goes on in that mysterious building at the edge of town no one knows anything about, and what might happen there late at night. Altogether, it's pretty wonderful.

- Winona Ryder's Guide To New Netflix Show 'Stranger Things' [NME]

1. I play Joyce Buyers.
2. I'm not a parent.
3. I was trying to look as unglamorous as possible.
4. Stranger Things is set in a small town.

 
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Anki introduces tool that allows developers to hack its Cozmo A.I. robot VentureBeat Cozmo is a playful, intelligent robot with an essence of artificial intelligence. As VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi described it, it's “something like Eve the robot in Pixar's Wall-E animated film.” Anki cofounder and president Hanns Tappeiner explained ... Hanging out with Anki's Cozmo, the toy robot putting AI at our fingertipsThe Verge Meet Cozmo, the AI robot with emotions video - CNETCNET AI-Powered Cozmo Robot Gets Easy-To-Use Development KitTop Tech News all 37 news articles »

 
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'Sheep View' Campaign Calls On Google To Photograph Roads In Faroe Islands  

The Faroe Islands tourism board launched a campaign called Sheep View 360, shot by attaching cameras to some of the archipelago's many sheep.

 
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When Horrible News Hits Our Feeds, Some Can't Bear To Watch  

When images and video of violent incidents like the attack in Nice, France, saturate the news and social media, many people feel overwhelmed and just want to turn away.

 
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Comcast Joins Federal Effort To Bring Discounted Internet To Public Housing  

Will the Internet ever be free for families relying on housing assistance? HUD Secretary Julian Castro and Comcast's David Cohen weigh in on challenges of connecting public housing to the Internet.

 
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Zac Thompson: Sustainable Living - Reduce Your Waste With The Five R's  
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Cathedral Bridge  

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Not the most original composition this to say the least, but as i was nearby and the light was decent i couldn't help myself. Opted for the 35mm over the UWA to try and compress the city and the sky a little as it lost impact at 17 and 24mm. Generally i find if the light and composition looks good to my eyes as i look at it then the best lens to convey that is the 35mm, brings the sunrise toward me a little more. I never really thought of until recently but London is stunning at dawn and Dusk; I cant wait to get back up there, especially in the winter when the sun rises behind tower bridge. (I think)

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