Max Leonard and Camille McMillan’s award-winning book of the crumbling concrete defences of the French Alps is a testament to the futility of war.
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The London of 100 years ago is both different and yet immediately recognisable in this set of "magic lantern" slides.
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Growing up in High Wycombe, young photographer Gavin Watson documented the local skinhead scene, capturing his mates larking about in their uniform of DM boots, Harrington jackets and sheepskin coats.
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Parisian art collective Maentis redesigns a number of global companies' logos – and isn't exactly complimentary.
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Umbrella Creative Director Matt Reynolds has a lot of time for the world’s most ubiquitous digital watch.
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Forget about Rolex – Joshua Clare-Flagg reveals his love for entry-level timepieces.
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London’s Welbeck Street car park was perhaps the UK’s most beautiful brutalist building. Now, Umbrella’s ‘concrete correspondent’ Jo Underhill has published a book to commemorate its needless passing.
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In this excerpt from his book, I & I, The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer, author Colin Grant recalls how a new and abrasive form of reggae started to usurp the older, more mellow sound.
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Engineer Andy Parsons reveals his love for the German washing machine manufacturer.
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Photographer Tom Wood’s fascinating archive images of the women’s clothes section at Liverpool’s Great Homer Street market.
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Christopher Ward’s C8 UTC Worldtimer is the perfect watch for travellers and geography fans alike.
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Architectural photographer Jo Underhill is Umbrella's very own concrete correspondent. In this occasional column she spotlights locations captured as part of her Beautiful Brutalism series.
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