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INKEDIN & ICONIC. Near-history, modern noise, and the brands caught in between.

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Last week’s newsletter seemed to get so many of you, with late 90s early agency life in Soho nostalgia swirling through the comments. I loved all your memories and messages, so here’s a part 2 of sorts…

My boss was @louislygo , still a friend now and one of the most talented artists I’ve ever met. As creative director he had assembled a team of young talent that seemed to have been collected rather than hired, and he let the kids run at things.

He talked about cool European art or incorporated graphics from The Clash and told us off for not going to enough exhibitions during work time. Being berated for not sneaking off to an exhibition whilst getting paid for it, how cool is that.

“Early” newsletter in your inboxes, link in bio by @inkedin_iconic

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The talk at the bars was of Jonathan Glazer’s new Surfer video or Chris Cunningham’s Windowlicker, which came out within a week of each other in 1999.

XFM then a London only radio station were playing Eels’ Novocaine for the Soul, an odd record that suited the vibes of the time and Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space seemed to be everywhere. It felt about right for a city that had drifted a few inches off the ground.

Newsletter today about buying toast in late 90s Soho and all that came with it. Link in bio. by @inkedin_iconic

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This Is The Time Of Monsters. 🌍

Antonio Gramsci said: the old world is dying but the new order is struggling to be born. In that gap, monsters appear.

Misha Glenny watched Yugoslavia fall apart. He's been a pessimist ever since. And he thinks the monsters are everywhere right now.

New episode of StoryCo out now.

#mishaglenny #gramsci #geopolitics #history #storyco by @inkedin_iconic

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Today’s newsletter an ode to Skate wheel graphics, and British Knights.

You get there by making something so specific that a small but vital gang of passionate souls love it.

Link in bio, or go find it it your inbox. by @inkedin_iconic

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2 months ago

He Heard A Bullet Enter His Car. 🚗

He had permission from the Serbs to cross Sarajevo Airport. Five cars in convoy. Then the car behind him accelerated past. Then a bullet came through the door.

Hear more stories like this in this week's episode of StoryCo out now with Misha Glenny.

#mishaglenny #sarajevo #journalism #war #storyco by @inkedin_iconic

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Tomorrow On StoryCo: Misha Glenny. 🌍

He heard a bullet enter his car crossing Sarajevo Airport. He covered the fall of communism and the wars in Yugoslavia. He wrote McMafia. This year he took over In Our Time from Melvyn Bragg.

40 years explaining how the world actually works. Tomorrow on StoryCo. Link in bio...

#mishaglenny #mcmafia #journalism #bbc #storyco by @inkedin_iconic

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The track for a slow start isn't the track for a big day ahead. So we ask people we admire for three tracks, each tied to a different morning — three separate moments, and the reason behind each one.

This time it's James Kirkham — founder of ICONIC, host of the StoryCo podcast, and one of the sharpest cultural commentators around. He also writes beautifully, so this one's worth reading in full on Substack (link in bio). by @inkedin_iconic

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This Newsweek magazine from November ‘96 is like a wonderful written word Time Machine.

“In more modest ways, what’s planned for the South Bank is happening across London. More spending money, a housing shortage and rising real-estate values are transforming neighborhoods in London. In Notting Hill, an impressively diverse community of million-pound homes, Yuppie flats and low-income housing, gentrification is proceeding at such a rapid pace that if there’s not a real-estate sign out front, there’s scaffolding. If you can’t get a place there, try Clerkenwell, saved from the wrecking ball in the 1970s, just west of the City. Or maybe that particularly lovely street in the raggedy East End-the refuge of the art crowd. For the next few weeks.” by @inkedin_iconic

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Football and politics. Entwined entirely, and nothing moves as fast as their ongoing storylines - a never ending soap opera. New @storycopodcast with the superb @joey.durso out now wherever you get your podcasts. by @inkedin_iconic

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The Door and the Bridge.

Salford Lads Club nearly closed. One photograph outside its doors saved it, put on a t-shirt, sold, and spent sending local teenagers to South Dakota.

Round the corner from me, a footbridge to Eel Pie Island. The Stones, Bowie, Clapton, the Who all crossed it before anyone was queuing for them anywhere else. Today: a £3 museum.

Most heritage gets a plaque. Some of it could get to work.

Full piece in Inked In & Iconic newsletter, link in bio or in your inbox those who subscribe ↗ by @inkedin_iconic

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Art is alive. Loved this conversation with Jago Cooper, such infectious enthusiasm.

Explaining how all human essence poured into the creation of the art makes it a living thing. by @inkedin_iconic

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