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What We're Watching — The rise of Manchester City: From bankruptcy to billions
Former Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook sits down with Sky Sports UK and reveals how Manchester City went from near bankruptcy to the richest takeover in English football.See more here.
New Podcast — The Design of Business: Dmitri Siegel
Jessica Helfand and Michael Bierut explore how design works within complex organizations to shape decisions, ideas, products, and more. Guests include clients from many industries and designers in ...
New Music — Nothin Like U / Chances by Kaytranada
Currently, on repeat in the studio, Nothin Like U/Chances is a fresh EP from Kaytranada; one of the worlds most talented producers. Take a listen below and be sure to keep up to date with all thing...
In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop. Written and Directed by Jonah Hill, Mid90s takes u...
What we're reading — Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggin...
We're excited to introduce the second episode of our latest video series, entitled the I Love Ugly Diaries: Projects. Designed to offer you a unique behind the scenes angle into our world I Love U...
Acclaimed French producer Darius, a.k.a. Terence N'guyen, returns with his highly-anticipated debut album project, Utopia.By far one of our go-to 'chillwave' electronic records for 2018, preview i...
What We're Reading — Graphic Design Visionaries by Caroline Roberts
Featuring 75 of the world's most influential designers, this book presents the story of graphic design through the fascinating personal stories and significant works that have shaped the field. Ar...
The Ventura Collection Lookbook
Introducing our final collection for 2018, entitled the Ventura Capsule. For our final offering of the year, we wanted to offer something light and poppy for the Southern Hemisphere Summer, whilst...
New Music — Reasons by Cautious Clay
Our good friend - Brooklyn-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist - Cautious Clay is back with a fresh single “REASONS.” Co-written by Hudson Mohawke and Tobias Jesso Jr., with Mohawke ...
What We're Watching — Khruangbin: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Probably one of our go-to live music series on Youtube, NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert played host to Houston trio Khruangbin - for what we'd simply describe as an absolute groove fest. Sit back an...
New Music — 808INK - When I’m About, You’ll Know
London duo 808INK drop one of our records of the year When I'm About, You'll Know with a stacked lineup of anthems. Uniquely London, 808INK deliver a hybrid sound of Grime, UK Drill, Afro Beat, an...
What We're Reading — SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. It explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled terri...
What We're Watching - Searching for Sugarman
Though he faded into obscurity in the U.S., an early '70s musician known as Rodriguez became a huge hit in South Africa and was widely rumoured to have died. Two obsessed fans set out to learn the...
What We're Reading — The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli
The famous Italian Graphic Designer Massimo Vignelli allows us a glimpse of his understanding of good design in this book, its rules and criteria. He uses numerous examples to convey applications ...
What We're Listening To: Velvet - JMSN
Texas-born, Michigan-bred R&B singer Christian Berishaj – better known as JMSN – is back. The last time we heard from Berishaj was in 2016, when he released his eight-track LP, Whatever Makes ...
New Podcast: How I Built This - Richard Branson
How I Built This host Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best-known companies, weaving a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements th...
ILU Diaries: 001 - "Release Week"
We're pretty excited to introduce our latest behind the scenes series, entitled the I Love Ugly Diaries. Designed to offer you a monthly or fortnightly (depends on what’s going on in our world) gl...