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Nick Compton

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Nick Compton’s Biography

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An experienced media professional Nick Compton has been Features Director and Acting Editor of Wallpaper* magazine and is now Contributing Editor. He co-founded the creative consultancy Bureau BCM in 2020 and works with Wired (UK) and The Economist Group. Cutting his teeth at The Face and Arena, he has worked for numerous magazines and newspapers in the UK and the US.

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Meet Tyler Hobbs, the breakout star of generative art

Meet Tyler Hobbs, the breakout star of generative art

Tyler Hobbs is arguably the poster boy of generative art and the most eloquent champion of code as a creative…

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In the Loop: Jonny Ive on Apple's new HQ and the disappearing iPhone

In the Loop: Jonny Ive on Apple's new HQ and the disappearing iPhone

Anticipation was higher than usual – and it always runs to feverish – when the press and other interested p…

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Light house: James Turrell illuminates the Palladian masterpiece of Norfolk's Houghton Hall

Light house: James Turrell illuminates the Palladian masterpiece of Norfolk's Houghton Hall

The American artist James Turrell owns 227 square miles of arid land near northern Arizona's Painted Desert. …

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Adam Kimmel is recharged and redirected as WeWork's creative chief

Adam Kimmel is recharged and redirected as WeWork's creative chief

As second-act professional re-routings go, Adam Kimmel's is an attention grabber. In the late noughties, the …

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Do Ho Suh creates the after-glow of time and place with fabric rooms and ritual rubbings

Do Ho Suh creates the after-glow of time and place with fabric rooms and ritual rubbings

Last summer the Korean artist Do Ho Suh papered over much of the interior of a four-storey New York townhouse…

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Hub culture: how Second Home is engineering the new creative hothouse

Hub culture: how Second Home is engineering the new creative hothouse

In 2010, Rohan Silva was a smart young thing pulled from the UK's Treasury department into the policy unit at…

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Bernar Venet's Generative Art Debut

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By Nick Compton
| Sotheby's Magazine Verified
Bernar Venet is collaborating with Sotheby’s on his first generative digital artwork, created on the Ethereum blockchain T he French artist Bernar Venet has always explored the creative potential of chance. Venet established his credentials back in 1963 with Tas de charbon (Pile of Coal), a work both literal and radical in its use of materials and embrace of accidental composition. He also has a long-held fascination with mathematics and the creative power of algorithms.
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Singulart: shaking up the online world of art and design

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By Nick Compton
| Architonic
Paris-based Singulart optimises the online art landscape for artists, dealers and collectors alike, and is now doing the same for an even broader range of design professionals and their clients.
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Design Shenzhen: an architectural focus at the Design Forum

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By Nick Compton
| Architonic
Architecture and social cohesion As co-curator of 2019’s Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Carlo Ratti knows the city well. The Italian architect, technologist and director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab returns for Design Shenzhen and will talk about his plans to bring a ‘hydroponic farmscraper’, Jian Mu Tower, to the city. Fellow Italian Stefano Piontini will also be taking part in the Design Forum, and exploring the importance of storytelling in the realisation of the client's ideas.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! At my first job at Menswear, bible of the independent menswear retailer

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Frank Bascombe

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To be an honest, insightful witness