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Inside Sissi and Pat’s closet: How a rare Vivienne Westwood crown found its way into their collection

Emma Hammar — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:45:06 +0000

Sissi Pohle and Pat Scherzer epitomize how the clothes we wear, and objects we hold can be used to express the depths of our personalities. Their shared wardrobe is a mix and match of patterns, knits, eras, and prices. Every outfit is a distinct and carefully curated composition that conveys care and admiration for the

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From waste to wonder: meet the mastermind crafting sound absorbing architecture from plastic bottles

Lucy Pullicino — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:08:50 +0000

From a prototype-packed design lab in Lucerne, Coco Lombarte leads a team that’s closing the loop on spatial auditory design, one PET bottle at a time.

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Nicole McLaughlin on the eBay find that turned her into Arc’teryx first designer ambassador

Lucy Pullicino — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:44:00 +0000

Her introduction to upclycling was through fabric scraps and learning to sew. While practicing, Nicole realized the potential of already-existing garments—and the amount of excess generated by the fashion industry—and decided to use her pieces to open a larger conversation around the importance of extending the life-span of our resources. Her design process is rooted

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Inside designer Nicholas Pourfard’s home, a thoughtful restoration of a modernist masterpiece

Lucy Pullicino — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:35:13 +0000

His sensitivity to restoring the home’s special details is mirrored in the intuitive way he has designed its interior, populating it with chairs by designers he admires, antique rugs from his father’s Persian rug store, and the odd custom piece built in his workshop, too. The open plan layout is all warm white walls, honeyed

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Designer Julia Haney-Montañez on the chair that changed the course of her career

Maria Paris — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 10:01:52 +0000

Choosing a creative career is not an easy task. In an economic infrastructure where productivity and economic growth are the priority, education systems often find themselves encouraging pragmatic professions, such as law, finance or diplomacy, under the pretence of them leading to financial security. London-based interior designer Julia Haney-Montañez grew up in one such education

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Public Possession reflect on staying relevant in the rarely static world of music and design

Emma Hammar — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:22:18 +0000

Oftentimes, the advice we’re given, particularly when attempting to transform a creative vision into a career, let alone into a brand, is pragmatic and strict: plan diligently, tamper expectations, and chase trends with dogged determination. Establishing yourself and your creative output is presented as formulaic and linear—detours are usually discouraged. This isn’t how Marvin and

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What you need to know about digital pollution according to four industry experts

Amelie Varzi — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:05:16 +0000

How can digital publishing, along with other branches of the creative industry be rendered more sustainable? In the attempt to address these questions, broaden our views, and challenge our own creative practices—an interest we share with our design team at MoreSleep—we discovered a number of eye-opening projects spanning web design, digital design, publishing, and digital communication. We spoke to four of them about their insights and learnings.

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How a new guard of creatives is changing the way we engage with data

Emma Hammar — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:38:00 +0000

Designer Giorgia Lupi (Pentagram and Accurat) Some of Giorgia Lupi‘s earliest memories are of her grandmother’s tailor shop in the northern Italian town of Mirandola. Her parents would drop her off there on their way to work and she would amuse herself by counting and cataloging all the different buttons and threads. “I would organize

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Architecture on the pop planet: Bianca Felicori puts forgotten twentieth-century buildings back on the map

Emma Hammar — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:03:00 +0000

You might see her running through the streets of Milano’s Corvetto neighborhood on her way to DOPO?—a project space she recently co-founded—, or sitting silently in the brutalist church of San Giovanni Bono, absorbed in her morning thoughts. Based between Milan and Brussels, Bianca Felicori is an Italian architect, researcher, and journalist who isn’t afraid

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Insights: The future of curation, education, and transdisciplinarity

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:40:00 +0000

Two such curators are Lukas Feireiss, whose eponymous studio “provides overall conceptual development, design and implementation for diverse formats of knowledge dissemination and visual communication,” and Matylda Krzykowski, who works across the fields of design, architecture, art, and performance. Among other collaborative projects, Krzykowski notably co-founded Depot Basel, a place for contemporary design which ran

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