4 Corners: An interview with Bryan Bullen and Trevor Bullen
This month we head to the ‘island of spice’, Grenada. A beautiful, tropical idyll I am proud to claim as my maternal ancestral home. I visited Grenada three times during my childhood; the last time...
View ArticleSUPERMANDELA. Let the spirit live on!
Although I never had the privilege of meeting ‘Madiba’, I was fortunate to be in South Africa in 1994, just a month before South Africa’s first ever multi-racial elections since the Apartheid regime...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Jepchumba
This month we journey to east Africa and the nation of Kenya, named after Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa. It is in this country, we find a young intrepid woman who has scaled...
View Article4 Corners : An Interview with Errol Donald AKA Pride
This month, while we face the winter blues of New Year, we stay home in London and in the warm company of someone I have been blessed to call a friend for more than 30 years. Mr Errol Donald, AKA...
View ArticleA Super Hero Identity Crisis
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about ‘superheroism’. Partly, because of my Afro Supa Hero exhibition currently on display at the V&A Museum of Childhood, that is centered around my personal...
View ArticleNine Fine Design Pioneers
This month, in recognition of the US celebration of Black History Month, Four Corners breaks from convention to profile not one person, but nine people. Taking a moment to reflect on some of the...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Barrington Braithwaite
This month we head to a very unique part of the Caribbean, Guyana. It is unique in the fact that it is not an island, but a sovereign state situated on the northern coast of South America. Historically...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Mo Woods
If race equality progressed at the same rate as technology, we’d be living on an amazing planet right now. Yet, here we are in 2014 and there is little doubt that the playing field for people of...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Malene B
This month we take a slight departure into a different field of design. Carpet design to be exact. Dynamic, bold, colourful and contemporary textile creations inspired by the designer’s travels, far...
View Article4 Corners: An interview with Emory Douglas
As a black teenager growing up in East Sheen, I was inspired by the historical contribution of the Black Power and Civil Rights Movement in the US, and influenced by leading black political figures...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Lemi Ghariokwu
According to the lyrics of the late, great pioneering Afrobeat musician and cultural icon, Fela Kuti, ‘Music is the weapon of the future’. If that’s the case, then this month’s profile designer’s work...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Bro Ben
As October and another British Black History Month draws to a close, it gives me cause to reflect on the years since its inception in 1987. Culturally and technologically the changes in our society in...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Lowell Thompson
Advertising or ‘Adland’, used to be a home to a plethora of interesting and dynamic characters. I’m not talking about the smooth, elegant types that grace our TV screens in shows such as Mad Men;but...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Gareth Jenkins
This month we find ourselves back in the Caribbean on the region’s fifth largest island, Trinidad or “The Rainbow Island” as it sometimes known due to its wide range of ethnicity, religion and...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Gabrielle Smith
Happy New Year! Or “Nu-Year”, as is often said between people across the African diaspora. For those of you who may not be familiar with this terminology and referencing of the “Nu”, it has found its...
View Article4 Corners: An Interview with Lewis Williams
As we approach the close of the US Black History Month celebrations, am extremely proud to celebrate our 2nd anniversary as a regular monthly column with you. This month we pay tribute to both...
View ArticleWhite Supremacist Nightmare
//e.issuu.com/embed.html#2191541/31043197 They were BLACK. They were LOUD. They were PROUD. They were BOLD. They were COOL. They were BEAUTIFUL. They had BRAINS. They had BRAWN. They had HEART. They...
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