Happy Holidays From Lowe Counsel

If there is one aspect of the holidays that equally inspires excitement and fear, it’s your family. Or more accurately, the embarrassment of your family. Don’t get us wrong, we’re sure you descend from fine stock, but that doesn’t remove...

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Move Over Pirate Radio. Hello Pirate Notworks

Across the UK in the 1960’s chart hits were pretty much decided by teenagers huddling around portable transistor radios religiously tuned to illegal radio stations such as Radio...

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Lowe + Partners Launches Nova Award

Award season is upon us, just probably not the one you’re thinking. This coming Tuesday, November 22nd, Lowe and Partners will present and sponsor the first

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The Micro Library and the Future of Reading

When everyone was busy writing off print publishing (specifically printed books), they didn’t bet on that the antiquated charm of the literary world holdout “The Library”. The government-aided (though sadly...

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Curling Up For Movember: Growing For Good

Did you know that we were in the clutches Movember? You may have known it was November, but fewer knew it was MOvember, and even fewer still are able to celebrate in this tradition of follicle tomfoolery. During...

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Flights of Fancy: A Quick Nature Break

When we at Lowe Counsel aren’t busying ourselves with the arduous task of deconstructing and sorting thru the culture of brands, we occasionally like to take in a bit of natural beauty. Those familiar with the phenomena of...

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Youth in Revolt: Fashion In The Age of Suiting

When Bob Dylan penned the timeless Times They Are a-Changin’, he couldn’t have been more poignant. Little could have been predicted that the simmering tumult of the 1960’s would result in such wild-eye futurist ideologies about...

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The Self-Parody of Hipster-Speak

“Gluten-free helvetica keytar seitan american apparel. Letterpress cliche seitan etsy, four loko hoodie carles single-origin coffee sustainable banksy portland dreamcatcher freegan. Gluten-free lo-fi terry richardson sartorial, keffiyeh wolf...

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Sending Out an S.O.S.

No matter how you slice, receiving a personal letter by post, ranks pretty high in terms of romantic and/or sentimental gestures. It’s up there with baking a new neighbor a welcome-cake, making a mix tape (physical that is) and giving a stranger...

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Can Wall Street Get it’s Tahrir Square Moment please?

A very ambitious campaign is waging on the web. One that posits Wall Street “the “financial Gomorrah of America” and in turn wants to create a protest to the rampant misuse and abuse of the American financial system. What this campaign aims...

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