Culture
Wake up early and get ready to boost your morning creativity

Wake up early and get ready to boost your morning creativity

It’s Friday morning. I wake up earlier than usual and I get off the metro in Porta Garibaldi. It’s not hard to find Frog, the design studio in Milan where CreativeMornings takes place once a month – as soon as I reach via Ugo Bassi I meet a bunch of people in their late twenties,...
NACE, the new online creative network

NACE, the new online creative network

If you’re a designer, publisher, artist, photographer, illustrator or musician: Read this! In Flic Magazine we have stumbled on an interesting project, a creative online network called Nace. It is an innovative alternative in which it is possible to make money creating ideas for brands and international artists. Nace is established as a link between...
Google Street Art Project

Google Street Art Project

Google has embarked on making life easier  for us in every field and this time the beneficiary has been street art. The Cultural Institute of Google, which was born in 2011, has launched a proposal called Street Art Project, which offers support to urban artists all over the world. Its aim is to reach a...
The Normandy landing

The Normandy landing

On the 6th of June 1944, known as the “D-day”, the Allies started the landing of an army of over 150.000 soldiers (73.000 Americans and 83.000 British and Canadians) on the beaches of Normandy. It was 70 years ago. With the operation known as “Operation Overlord”, the Allied invasion of France had started. Commanded by...
Collaborative Consumption

Collaborative Consumption

It is 2014 and cars do not fly. Skateboards do not fly either; lights do not light up with our voice in almost any home, and we are definitely far from inhabiting other planets. The image of the future we who grew up without the Internet had for the new millennium does not look like...
Children who don’t go to school

Children who don’t go to school

An ephemeral analysis of the evolution of modern education. I remember the school as a source of stories and gratifying experiences, friends, and teachers; however, I also remember that I hated getting up early in the morning. I hated school, I didn’t want to go. I remember that, being elderly, I remember that I hated...
Death Lane

Death Lane

Beto deAlva is one of the members of the group Death Lane / The Black Mass, a project that was created to document the fixed gear scene in Barcelona. They have a website and a fanzine, and they also organize races (some more legal than others). They do it for the sake of art. Well,...
Hipster!

Hipster!

Let’s start at the beginning. And where did it begin? In New York, always in New York, world capital of the 20th century. Here, and nowhere else, is where the hipster, the original, was born. The term hipster comes from the word “hepcat” (compound of “hep” – or sometimes “hip”-, a phrase used by black...
Vintage markets, tourist attraction or hidden treasures for fashionistas?

Vintage markets, tourist attraction or hidden treasures for fashionistas?

London has its own personal style, the people walk around dressed up casual but “researched”, the British love the high street shops (the cheaper version of the latest designer collections, to name the most famous we have Zara, H&M, Primark, Topshop and so on) that allows you to dress up to the nines (if you...
You know man

You know man

The videogame saga Rock Star Games is set in Liberty City and it’s known as the virtual city inspired by New York, where its plot develops. We could find some common factors, but the Liberty City which we will bring up close is real: it’s a neighborhood and it’s in Miami. President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Dandies. The cult to one self

Dandies. The cult to one self

Nowadays it is pretty hard to find someone as modern as the dandy. A figure that fluctuates between Narcissus’ simple vanity and the complex construction of personality, understood as fate, of the mortal who observes life and chooses to turn himself into a work of art. Is it, indeed, about clothes; about the gowns and...
Meet Rodríguez Gerada

Meet Rodríguez Gerada

Since basing himself in Barcelona in 2002 Jorge Rodríguez Gerada has focussed on his art practice of urban interventions, in different ways, in cities throughout the world. Through community interaction he started to compliment urban surfaces and materials with large-scale ephemeral portraits of anonymous locals in his Identity Series. Rodríguez Gerada further developed this in...