MAY WE BEGIN BY SAYING...
It’s raining buckets here in London, and like the long-awaited British summer, this month’s Clubhouse has been a little delayed. We’re sorry. But we think this month’s edition makes up for it.
 
We’ve been re-imagining internet design, drinking coffee in the Arctic, taking a trip to a cocoa farm and doing the walk of life.
 
Get your wellies on.

READING ON THE WEB SHOULDN’T BE THIS DIFFICULT
Why is reading online so annoying?
 
Having access to all this information is great. But too often, online articles are a gauntlet of pop-ups, sign-ups and glitches. It's time for a change. 
 

REBRANDING NORTH KOREA
Changing from the outside in

Swedish agency Snask designed a new visual identity for the DPR of Korea, in a bid to encourage them to be a bit more democratic. Enter ‘Love Korea’, a modern, friendly, open nation.
 

BARBARIAN DAYS
An excerpt from one of our favourite books
 
We’re big fans of William Finnegan’s surfing memoir Barbarian Days. Ed says it made him a better surfer. Read this excerpt and see if it does the same for you.

THE SONG EVERY MOVIE SHOULD END WITH
Hypothesis: The Walk of Life by Dire Straits is the perfect song to end any movie.
 
Watch 40 painstakingly-edited remakes of classic movie endings, and you’ll find it very hard to disagree.

THE MAGNIFICENT 360 COCOA ADVENTURE
A virtual reality adventure with Nice and Serious    
 
At the end of last year, we teamed up with Nice and Serious to write some scripts for these virtual reality films for Barry Callebaut. The final cuts are out now, and you can see them in all their 360° glory above.