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.

American photographer David LaChapelle has had his fill of stars and glamour. Shunning superficial beauty, he has now turned his focus on presenting gritty reality.

Spanish graffiti artist Suso 33 is a true phenomenon: he is the only graffiti artist on the planet who applies his motifs using both hands at the same time, in a process that unites painting and dance.

Gabriel Shalom lends objects a personality all their own. In his videos he brings inanimate products to life and imbues them with character. For the presentation of the MINI Clubman at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the artist from New York created the clip Object Oriented in his Berlin studio.

Mathias Modica goes his own way. The man who runs the Munich-based Gomma label eludes any pigeonholing. The latest album from his band Munk – The Bird and the Beat – is the perfect cruising playlist for a balmy summer’s evening, but Modica wants to be more than a successful musician.

MINI is back. This summer saw the return of MINI to the starting grid of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), one of the world’s toughest race series.