Now living in Brooklyn Tony ‘Rubin’ Sjöman is one of Sweden’s foremost street artists and this brilliant book Rubin: New York / Scandinavia showcases his big and beautiful geometrical murals.…
Alongside jackets, sweatshirts, jeans, trainers and suede shoes I also have a penchant for collecting really good books. I’ve got bloody loads and their genres are all over the…
Have you ever wanted to do a university degree in film but simply haven’t had the time, the money or a high enough tolerance level of annoying students…
Much as I love gawping at all the amazing #TBT photos that exist on instagram, sitting down with a nice hardback and an un-opened packet of hobnobs will…
Paris hasn’t had the easiest of years in 2015 has it? As someone with a genuine love for this profound and inspiring city I found that by reading…
Inspired by my modernist mate Eddy Rhead’s recent book choice in the favourite five that he did for us I decided to track down a copy of Space, Hope &…
Just before the internet arrived (which let’s face it has made pretty much everything a bastardised version of something else that was around two weeks previously) a visionary magazine…
If you’ve ever visited heir auspicious premises in Covent Garden or perused their last publication then you’ll know that Douglas Gunn and Roy Luckett’s Vintage Showroom is in a…
John Lennon once sang “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you aint gonna make it with anyone anyhow.” but clearly the mad Scouse bugger hadn’t…
I’m guessing you’re a fan of Four Pins. Proper did it first, but that doesn’t detract from the funny shit they post every day. Plus, they understand that…
Casual might have gone overground but the roots of its story are just as cool and interesting as they ever were. I wasn’t there due to not being…
Ok so we’re slightly late to the party on this, but it’s almost December, which means it’s almost Christmas, which means it’s time to buy presents for a…
No words necessary to tee this up. Just sit back and give it a watch. Perfect Friday lunchtime viewing. Or morning/afternoon if you’re a slacker (like me). While…
Author of the genre defining Casuals book, Phil Thornton has spent the last year writing an updated version. He’s also fucking sound and was one of the first…
We caught up with our generation’s foremost philosopher and talented author Alain De Botton, to see just why on earth he’s written a (fascinating) book studying people doing what they tend to do for the majority of their adult lives, working.
As soon as Proper Magazine heard one of our favourite works of fiction was to finally make the leap onto the big screen we got straight on it.