THE MINI INTERNATIONAL combines the innovative instincts of a newspaper and the visual appeal of a magazine. THE MINI INTERNATIONAL explores below the surface of today's mobile society to find the most intriguing stories from MINI life, MINI culture and MINI design, and provides a platform for cosmopolitan lifestyles, high culture and street culture, and all the goings on in the MINI world.

Urban Farming - Our little skyscraper farm

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Hovering above the adjacent high-rise blocks is New York's latest trademark - the triangular "Dragonfly". This futuristic smallholding is a mix of farm, apartments and offices in the middle of the city. It isn't the only project by which scientists are attempting to secure the long-term food supply for big cities in the future. more

Country Design - Johnny Rotten escapes to the country

Isn't that...? Yes, it's Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols and erstwhile enfant terrible. He still has his shock of red hair, but these days is happy to don a tweed suit for a television commercial. He has been smitten by Country Life, the British butter brand. more

Indian art - Good karma for art from India

India is a boom country. In its restless search for ever-new trends, the international art market has discovered contemporary riches in the Indian subcontinent. Nothing fascinates collectors and gallery owners more right now than art from India. Currently topping the league is Subodh Gupta, a railwayman's son from Khagaul, and his wife Bharti Kher. more

Replay Online - Jeans from the cathedral, the Replay success story

Replay is to fashion what MINI is to cars: a brand that unites tradition and innovation in perfect style. The jeans label, founded in 1981 by Claudio Buziol, hails from Asolo, a small provincial town northwest of Venice. The Replay complex itself - known as "the cathedral" - has a dynamically styled redbrick façade that could act as the backdrop to a Dick Tracy film. more

Revolution in the music business: Girl Talk’s career is based on stolen hits

Gregg Gillis, better known as DJ Girl Talk, uses up to 150 samples to create his tracks. He shamelessly snaffles sounds from world-famous bands as diverse as Abba and ZZ Top. Gillis celebrates the fragments he uses: "If I sample Nirvana's ‘Lithium', it's off the cassette I was obsessed with growing up, the one that changed my entire life." more