The Double Negative is an online magazine launched just over a year ago. Featuring the best and latest in arts, design, film and music coverage, their mission is to hold a mirror up to creative output and reflect it, uncovering and exposing the best – and sometimes the worst – of what’s out there. This is what they recommend for you to check out:

Event: Based in Liverpool, we’re really looking forward to this year’s photography festival, Look 13. Elsewhere, later this month, we’re very excited to see what the V&A have done with the David Bowie archive.

Artist: On the site, we have a monthly focus showcasing the work of an artist of our choosing, so this is tough. We love them all but the latest is Matthew Storrow, a trained architect turned graphic designer. He’s obsessed with imagery of derelict stuff, very post-apocalyptic – right up our street!

Video: We’re big fans of the work of abstract moving image artist Max Hattler. He’s worked on solo shows, music videos and short films. Most recently he made a video for Amnesty International which you can watch below.

Book: Editor Mike was recently given Play: The Nylon Book of Music for his birthday. Focusing on female artists in rock, it’s served as inspiration for a playlist we did as well as being something we just can’t stop leafing through.

In fiction, we’ve never really got over Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland. Filled with pre-millenial tensions (it was first published in 1998), at its heart, this is a book about love and friendship. But poet and critic Tom Paulin probably puts it best: “This is a millennial novel of a very subtle and interesting kind. It’s visually brilliant, full of extraordinary imagery, fresh like new paint. I was absolutely knocked over by it.”

Venue: Probably the best venue in Liverpool right now is Camp and Furnace. A renovated industrial building just off the dock road, its multi-space layout makes it great for gigs, screenings and exhibitions. The fact it has a really nice bar and that it has been thoroughly thought through design-wise doesn’t hurt at all!

The Double Negative’s co-founder, Mike Pinnington

The Double Negative’s co-founder, Laura Robertson

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Max Hattler & blackboard scribbles which pertain to the ‘Max Hattler Canal Commission’, a water screen projection which is premiering at KXFS in London on 6 September. Photo: Lucy Pawlak.

I mainly live in London but don’t have a studio there. I travel a fair bit with my work, and I’m laptop-based, so I can work anywhere. I like putting myself in new environments and taking inspiration from them. Currently, I am doing an artist residency with Pixel Palace at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. Big Newcastle daily The Journal wrote an article about me and my two fellow residents, Lucy Pawlak and GH Hovagimyan last week which you can read here.

While in Newcastle I’ve been working on several projects, including Model Starship which I shot in my temporary flat in the iconic Byker Wall council estate … Another new work is Catch, the official music video for the single of the same name by The Egg, from their brand new album Something To Do. You can view Catch online here.

The main project here at Pixel Palace, an investigation of scanlines and moiree, is still a little top secret.

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