Issue 189 | International

“The very best myths are usually the ones that have some grain of truth at their centre”   We’ve all propagated a myth at some point or other in our lives. Most of us probably aren’t too willing to admit it, but the fact is that we’re predisposed to believe things that people tell us. We’re just nice like that. However, the more outlandish the claim, the more likely we are to question it, which is why the very best myths are usually the ones that have some grain of truth at their centre.   In this issue’s lead feature, we dispel some of the biggest myths in web design and development, which – though often containing an element of fact – can have an adverse effect on your pr...

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Issue 162 | International

This month we take a look at some incredible sketchbooks. Oh Yeah Studio, Micah Lidberg, Jon Burgerman, Pomme Chan, Johnny Kelly, Rex Crowle and Ville Savimaa share their most intimate sketches, doodles and thoughts. I’ve known all of these artists’ work for a long time, so seeing the thought processes behind some of their amazing imagery is incredibly inspiring.   And that’s the theme of this issue – inspiration. It’s a given that pinning down what inspires individual designers – such as yourself – is pretty damn hard (if not impossible). But, through the aforementioned Unseen Work feature, our 28 pages of tutorials from the industry’s best and our interviews with the legendary Hillman...

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Issue 279 | United Kingdom

This month we take stock of the varied ways that photography and architecture interact. David Cowlard argues that, with the spread of web publishing and the growing interest in urbanism from documentary photographers, this is the time for architects to relax their grip on representation and let humanism back into photography. A photographer himself, Cowlard is also responsible for our unusual images of David Chipperfield’s gallery in Wakefield, which will be finished in 2010. Taken during construction with the concrete structure exposed, the images present the building as elemental and at a transient moment in production.   The cover comes from the extraordinary pinhole photographs of Anthony Browell. The Sydney-based photograp...

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Issue 15 | United Arab Emirates

As seasons change and we all brace ourselves for a new summer, brownbook pushes on and tries to explore the quintessential qualities of the Middle East. On the way we encountered chefs in Cairo, Allepo and Tehran and discovered some of the unique qualities of Pan Arab Flavours and Cuisines. We also sent our best photographers out in the field to develop a new series Crossing Borders, starting off with a trip from Damascus to Amman.   In this section brownbook writers will talk to the younger crowd, travellers, tourists, waiters and others about their experiences. One of our favourite stories in this issue comes from our reporter in Yemen, who describes the surf scene on its largest Island, Socotra. A growing destination for surfers w...

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