Dinner parties. We love going to them but we dread hosting them, the stress of cooking and then the washing up the next day, its not for us. However, we have found one dinner party that we would be happy to host for. Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas has created a plaster-cast dinner party on [...]
Hekkta loves innovative and smart designs. We are always on the lookout for the best so this years DBA Design Awards were proved an excellent hunting ground for examples. This article is all about the winning designs that we loved and want to share with everyone. Held annually, the DBA Design Awards recognises British branding, packaging and [...]
Hekkta loves travelling. The different cultures, the architecture, the people, it’s an amazing experience. However, its sometimes difficult to travel across the world. That’s why, when Spanish designer Marta Colmenero created a set of illustrations that capture the concrete forms of brutalist architecture across the globe. The series, we feel, elicits many of the same emotions that [...]
HEKKTA loves all things American; we love the patriotic idealism, the scenic country, the powerfully obnoxious muscle cars. These factors haven’t changed over the years and are highlighted in photographer Emmanuel Geroges’s book, America Rewind which documents the exploration of the 'American Dream', or lack of it left in the USA. Using an analogue, large-format [...]
3D printing. This new technology is normally associated with engineering or the likes, however HEKKTA has found a new, innovative, and what we think is pure genius, use of 3D printing technology. Ukrainian patisserie chef Dinara Kasko draws on her background in architecture in her cooking and her geometric desserts are amazing. We would spend [...]
In this brilliant project Midnight Modern, Tom Blachford brings us Palm Springs just like it would've been 60 years ago with some amazing photography shot in the light of the moon. Tom Blachford was able to gain a very rare insight into the classic modernist architecture of Palm Springs and presents a different, more tranquil [...]
For the last seven years, photographer Peter Ortner has been travalling around the former Soviet Union states such as Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan. However what he shoots may surprise you. Ortner has found some incredible and slightly bizarre pieces of architecture in the form of bus stops and they certainly do not adhere to the [...]
We have stumbled upon a brilliant project on Gender Wars by award-winning French art and creative director Tom Le French named Hold Up! He wanted to address the concept of beauty and danger and this visually appealing project suggests some very interesting ideas. Tom sums up his evocative project with the line "If beauty is [...]
So many brilliant sporting moments have occurred at the Olympics. Usain Bolt's triple triple at the Rio Olympics last year, the Super Saturday at London 2012 and Jesse Owens' incredible stand against racism with his four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But all these amazing moments were made more powerful by the venue [...]
Photographer Romain Veillon has captured Nara Dreamland, an abandoned theme park in Japan, in these eerie pictures of the once popular destination. His photos highlight how nature has taken over the park with weeds growing through the concrete and huge bushes engulfing the large rollercoasters. Veillon managed to get these extraordinary pictures before the park [...]
