Even with the death of print close at hand, there’s still nothing that compares to holding a nice book, especially if they are filled with great photographs of phone sex operators.

It’s hard not to notice, on Jamaican roads at least, how BMW has overtaken their fellow Germans Benz in premium car design. What follows is a Q&A with their head designer about flame surfacing and their animated cloth concept car, the GINA.

No different to anywhere else in the world, Jamaica is in love with German design i.e. the BMW 5-series. But those nice Germans perplex us still. This advances our understanding.

Imagine sitting in traffic here in Kingston and suddenly you notice this thing pull up beside you?

Born in 1921 Seydou Keita was a studio photographer from Bamako, Mali. But by 1997 his work had traveled from their original asking price of a few dollars in his neighbourhood shop, to persuading Manhattan hipsters to part with US$16,000 for giant prints. Even Harper’s Bazaar commissioned him for a fashion shoot.

Mosengwo Kejwamfi, aka Moke the Painter, was considered a painter-reporter of life in Kinshasa, the city where he arrived as a ten-year-old orphan in the year of Independence, 1960. Moke soon began his career painting landscapes on old cardboard.

Beautiful, but no matter how many times we look at this, we don’t feel for them like Steve Irwin did. That’s why he’s dead.

You’ve heard of miraculous statues of the Virgin Mary? Well this one squeaks but don’t feed it to the dog…it’s Hell.

Don’t have a clue who this Swedish guy is. However what we do know is that he does inspired drawings of eminent African American gangsters, and weirder still, a board game version, When Queens Was King.

Buckminster Fuller was a man who liked to design things, not so much for today, never thinking about the past, but very much looking into the future.