Pete Martin gives us his Top Ten tunes

Here’s the complete list of Scottish rock ‘n’ pop albums as recommended by men and women of taste and judgement. (The Top 30 - as judged by most frequently mentioned - can be found here.) Big thanks to all contributors.

If you’re ever in the mood to buy music, and can’t quite decide what to spend [...]

Alright pop-pickers…  Here’s the big Top 30 - dah, dah, dah-dah-dah– dah-dah.
We’ve put them in alphabetic order because after Deacon Blue’s Raintown, Love & Money’s Strange Kind of Love, Hipsway’s self-titled Hipsway, and James Grant’s My Thrawn Glory, the field’s pretty even and, frankly, trying to rank them is a bit silly in the first [...]

We think James Grant’s new album is ‘nae bad’. But maybe you know there’s a better album made by a Scottish artist? Leave a reply below, stating your own favourite Scottish album of all time (and a reason if you have one).
The best 5 replies will win a limited edition Strange Flowers t-shirt.*
If you need [...]

Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz create sculptural scenes of isolation, despair and dark humor and mix them up with all the enchantment of a snow globe. Here’s a sprinkling of their work.

Surreal, experimental, provocative…these are just some of the words I would use to describe the work of Bela Borsodi. Like the Salvador Dali of still life photography, Borsodi challenges our perception of inanimate objects by altering the context within which they are seen. Whilst the majority of his work is for fashion editorial and advertising, his [...]

Exactitudes is an interesting photography project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek documenting the dress codes of different social groups, from yupstergirls and bonkerboys to surfistas and skins. The resulting set of images is a juxtaposition of individuality and uniformity.

A light installation by designer Bruce Munro will be exhibited at the Eden Project in Cornwall this winter. Using 6,000 acrylic tubes containing optical fibers, Munro has created a field of light which will illuminate its natural surroundings with a spectrum of colour. He came up with the concept whilst traveling through the red desert in Australia, where he [...]

I like creativity, travel and chance encounters, which is why I like the 1000 Journals project. The project was launched in 2000 by San Francisco based artist ‘Someguy’. He distributed 1000 blank journals to various people and public places inviting those who found one to contribute to it and then pass it on.
As the journals [...]

Can a piece of paper be magical? tragic? Or even witty? Kirsten Murray takes a look at how the creative world from sculptors and illustrators to designers and ad agencies are embracing the art of paper.
The art form of paper cutting and folding dates back to the 6th century in China, where Cai Lun invented paper. [...]