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Louis Vuitton – A global employer branding campaign and extended work culture documentary

Lucy Pullicino — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:29:28 +0000

Showcasing a personal side of the people that make up Louis Vuitton Use of Friends of Friends photography and video content across Louis Vuitton’s careers website

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Run by women and powered by design: Juliana Rudell Di Simone’s metaverse is closing the gap between the digital and the physical world

Emma Hammar — Mon, 30 May 2022 06:28:34 +0000

With her co-founder, Lana Hopkins, based in Sydney, and the company’s team spread across the world, Juliana works mostly from her luminous home in Los Angeles. Her day-to-day life is very routined—and she likes it that way. “It makes me feel a bit more in control over my crazy schedule and the only way I’ve

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Meet the Contributors: Amelia Lang is interested in “how we understand people and places through photography and film”

Emma Hammar — Wed, 11 May 2022 10:00:20 +0000

You may recognize Amelia Lang from her immersive interview with anti-war journalist Julia Leeb or from her elaborate story about The Journal Collective. Words, however, are not her first love. In fact, when she isn’t writing, Amelia spends most of her time surrounded by photography—be it through her work as a visual researcher or her

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Nu Goteh on the importance of community and socially engaged art

Emma Hammar — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:02:15 +0000

A designer, educator, and multi-disciplinary creative, Nu plays between audio, visual, and written mediums, and juggles interconnected projects to engineer collective experiences that draw social change to the forefront. His resume is extensive and varied—and his objective of creating better conditions for society is buoyed by his experience of leaving Liberia and finding his way in

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O-Town House is a Los Angeles-based exhibition space where art, history, and domestic intimacy collide

Amelie Varzi — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:49:00 +0000

O-Town House is a self-proclaimed flexible space. Not only is art shown and discussed there, but it is also the home of its founder, Scott Cameron Weaver, who has agreed to show us around. As the founder’s home, the space has a domestic intimacy typically lacking in the white cube mode of display that dominates

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How Keegan Fong left his marketing career to open a noodle shop serving his mother’s recipes

Amelie Varzi — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:07:00 +0000

Starting out as a noodle cart and family passion project, the culinary endeavor soon developed into the renowned restaurant it is today—a noodle shop serving Keegan’s mother’s own recipes and beloved meeting point among LA’s noodle aficionados as well as Keegan’s own community. Together with our friends at Closed, we spoke to Keegan about opening

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How community saved Prophet Walker’s life and inspired his leading edge co-housing project

Alessandra Roveda Chastalo — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:22:10 +0000

Many of us might consider ourselves global citizens; it’s an attractive idea, the sense of feeling connected to, and responsible to, something larger than ourselves. But what does that look like on a local level? How do ambitious dreams translate into intentional actions that will get us there? ASSEMBLAGE defines a global citizen as somebody

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Amanda Gunawan on her apartment-turned-office and cultivating sustainable workspaces

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:07:00 +0000

For many, the onset of the pandemic has coincided with working from home at a scale unlike before. Working, but also resting, coping, and caring for ourselves and others within the same four walls, has given birth to new ways of delineating spaces and adjusting environments to fit people’s needs while maintaining some semblance of

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Creative director Leigh Patterson and multi-instrumentalist Michael A. Muller avoid easy definitions regarding their distinctive voices

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

It’s endearing watching Leigh Patterson and Michael A. Muller evade the question: what do you do? The insistent distillation regarding how they spend their time bores them, and their ennui from over-describing their work is clear. It’s easy to understand why. There’s an ineffability to their professional interests, and their projects resist easy classification. Leigh

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Ana Corrigan on clay, cooking, and staying inspired

Jenna Duffy — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Analuisa Corrigan is an artist working between Los Angeles and New York. Her portfolio includes different mediums—such as clay, paint, and printed matter—and explores themes of material fragility and integrity, as well as the interlacing of process and time. To learn more about her work visit her website or follow her on Instagram. Analuisa Corrigan’s work

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