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PAI are the fresh faces in the young Melbourne fashion scene. Launching only within the last year, Angie Pai and Adrian Bressanutti have managed to kick up quite a storm with their slouchy yet chic garments. With a too-cool social media feed and having some of Melbourne’s most exciting young musicians like Banoffee and Oscar Key Sung rep the brand, PAI’s hype has skyrocketed to a critical level. How many kids now fall asleep at night and dream of slouching about in their Picasso-cubist-inspired garments?

PAI are supremely good at fusing art and fashion, like it...

Cocolia are a Spanish creative studio banging out some pretty positively crazy work. They’re Barcelona-based but we prefer to think of them as residing in Eye Candy City, because that is exactly what their website is. Cocolia create works that are orbiting in their own hyper universe. We’re talking high-impact colour, swirling palettes, swooshes of textural gradients and splotchings of hand-painted goodness.

Raul Ramos and Mieria Ruez are the creative masterminds behind this zany little studio. Together they’re all over everything; from identity design, to art direction, sets and illustration. Scrolling through their catalogue of work...

Oh dear. We’ve spent a good portion of our morning getting lost in some wonderfully graphic worlds created by Edinburgh-based illustrator Dominic Kesterton. Yep, his instantly recognisable combination of monochromes, heavy colour blocking and lush line-work has us dribbling all over our keyboard today. No complaints though.

Born and raised in York, Dominic has been drawing forever. After a false start in painting at a fine arts college, this talented little dude switched streams to study illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. And we are so glad he did. Since graduating back in 2013, Dominic has...

“Almost everyone living on the earth knows about dogs and finds some interest in them. Humans have created their environment on human scale. However when I see small dogs standing next to a person, I somehow sense new possibilities for architecture.”

Yep. Kenya Hara, art director of MUJI, knows what is up. The world-famous designer has been attracting praise from dog aficionados, designers, artists and architects alike for his travelling exhibition Architecture for Dogs since first launching in 2012. As the curator, Hara has dubbed the project a way to rediscover “what architecture really means”, exploring...

James Ulmer's art is great. With an arresting style of mark making that harmonises naivety and composition, his work give us childhood flashbacks and a sudden craving for super hero cereal. Side note: does anyone else remember digging through the Corn Flakes box trying to fish out the surprise plastic figurine? Hey Kellogg’s, bring that back.

James is a Philadelphia native but has been living and working in New York for a few years now, making his understated, simple drawings and paintings from his Brooklyn studio. Inspired by comic books, toys and cartoon references, his work is...