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Cologne / Bar

Very nice and cozy pub in the heart of Cologne’s Südstadt. Apart from the magnificent Kölsch (“offering a smooth journey of sensations that may be unremarkable individually but are extraordinarily pleasant as an ensemble”—The New York Times) they have a great program of life music and local DJ's.

New York / Cafe

A street party/DJ sound system built out of a shipping container. A little slab of hungover berlin/pregaming Berlin in Brooklyn. Whomever the great DJs in town are you will find them playing a low-key set here for a crowd of less than 50 people. Sunset is magic as there's a straight shot through to Manhattan and the light is perfection.

Paris / Work Space

My studio and collective gangster's place

London / Museum

The Garden Museum and the Garden Museum Cafe are a welcome addition to an area of London that is slow to change. The food at the cafe is modern and seasonal, and the space is beautiful and looks out into a small garden by Dan Pearson. Christopher Woodward, the museum director, is active in improving and campaigning for local green spaces and creating space for the local community. The Museum lives inside an old 18th-century church and has a changing program of exhibits. Worth noting, it is a museum on the subject of gardening, not of gardens, so don’t expect many flower beds. Throughout the summer holidays, the Museum has lots of great events for kids, including cooking and drawing. Luke and I also designed the identity for the museum… the tote bags and visitor badges are particularly nice.

New York / Museum

German Expressionism makes me giddy. All my favorites are here at any given time - George Grosz, Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Gustave Klimt - and the building was designed Carrére and Hastings, the same architects that designed the New York Public Library.

New York / Food Store

Get the perfect ingredient for your selfmade springrolls in the middle of the craziness of Chinatown/Little Italy! An experience you should not miss!

Athens / Museum

The Numismatic Museum of Athens, also known as Iliou Melathron, is a museum dedicated to the history of currency and coinage in Greece and the broader Mediterranean region. It is located in the Ilisia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, and is housed in a 19th-century mansion that was originally built for the renowned archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. The museum's collection includes over 600,000 coins, as well as medals, decorations, and paper currency, spanning from ancient Greece to modern times. It is one of the largest and most important collections of coins in the world, and is known for its unique and rare specimens, such as the famous Syracusan dekadrachm from the 5th century BC. The museum's exhibits are organized thematically and chronologically, with displays covering the development of coinage in Greece, the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and beyond. There are also exhibits that explore the use of coins in daily life, as well as their role in shaping political, economic, and cultural history. In addition to its exhibits, the Numismatic Museum of Athens also offers educational programs, including guided tours, workshops, and lectures, as well as research facilities for scholars and researchers. Overall, it is an important institution for the study and appreciation of numismatics, and a must-visit destination for anyone interested in the history of currency and coinage.

Athens / Other

Zappeion Hall, also known as the Zappeion Megaron, is a neoclassical building located in the heart of Athens, Greece. It was built in the late 19th century and is named after the Zappas brothers, who were wealthy Greek philanthropists. The Zappeion Hall was designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen and was originally built to host events for the revival of the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. It was the first building in Greece to be constructed specifically for this purpose. The building features a large central hall, surrounded by several smaller rooms and courtyards. It has a distinctive neoclassical design, with columns and ornate detailing inspired by ancient Greek architecture. Over the years, the Zappeion Hall has been used for a wide range of events, including exhibitions, conferences, and cultural events. It has also been used as a filming location for several movies and television shows. Today, the Zappeion Hall is a popular tourist attraction and an important cultural landmark in Athens. Visitors can explore the building and its grounds, attend events and exhibitions, or simply enjoy the beautiful neoclassical architecture and gardens.

Trondheim / Cafe

Best place to have a coffee in this town. Jacobsen og Svart is a Coffee Roastery, focused on making the most attractive coffee in the market by direct trade, handpicked and fair-pay to the farmers. Great pastries made in-house too.

London / Shop

They mainly sell art and cultural theory books but they also have a good selection of small press and self-published zines. It’s a great place to browse and get ideas.

Copenhagen / Museum

Ordrupgaard is a beautiful museum with lots of interesting exhibitions. Right next to the museum Finn jul's house is located, a famous danish designer and architect.

Jogjakarta / Park

The alun-alun is a large public grass court in the Kraton area central Jogjakarta. Every day from 6 PM the evening starts the enlightened bikes or tandems are for next to nothing. The alun-alun in the night is a festival of lights and innocent recreation.

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Paris / Creative Director

Creative Director, Experiential Storytelling

New York / Designer

Sebastian Chen Speier is a Creative Director and Product Designer in New York. He is currently a Design Lead at Instagram. Before that he was the Global Design Director on Nike SNKRS.

London / Artist

London-based artist exploring the physical and emotional consequences of human relationships, employing a mixture of photography, ceramics, found objects and video installation.

San Francisco / Visual Artist

I live in San Francisco with my husband Jay, in a tiny apartment in the Mission District. As a new girl to the city, I love exploring the different pockets and neighborhoods, sniffing all of the rose bushes and dodging the piles of human detritus on the sidewalks of the Mission. In addition to painting and drawing, I am a freelance illustrator and writer.

Boston / Art Director

Cuban born / Boston Based multidisciplinary Designer & Art Director. He runs Barnada, a Creative Studio that specializes in branding, and an audio-visual project called Xtrano, illustrating the mundane and ritualistic aspects of life as an immigrant.

London / Creative Director

Catarina Pereira is a Berlin-based Designer and Art Director. She has worked with several renowned studios, most notably Saville Associates, John Morgan Studio, Winkreative, Construct and Kiku Obata, and has over ten years of experience specialising in editorial, branding, fashion and cultural work. She now works independently on a variety of projects under the Voodoo Voodoo umbrella, or as a freelancer with other creative studios.

Boston / Illustrator

simple lines and a dash of wit.

London / Animator

Film director based in Paris and London

Kuala Lumpur / Graphic Designer

I am a graphic designer currently based in Kuala Lumpur. My regular practice focuses on visual identity, art direction, book and exhibition design within the disciplines of art, architecture, design, retail and restaurants.

Neede / Designer

Jos Buivenga can be passionate about a lot of things. He loves to paint, listen to music, brew an almost perfect espresso... but nothing challenges and rewards him more than designing type. If ever he was stranded on a desert island he would still draw alphabets in the sand, even if there was no one else to see them. He is the founder of exljbris, the one-man Dutch font foundry through which he releases and offers his typefaces. For 15 years, his online friends and fans could follow the development of his typefaces and download the results at no cost. In 2008, while still working as an art director at an advertising agency, he released his first commercial typeface Museo with several weights offered for free. That strategy paid off and Museo became a huge bestseller. Partly thanks to that success he now calls himself a full time type designer. All photos by Jos van Roij

Helsinki / Writer

Ida is a journalist specialized in design. She has written for several culture and design publications, both in Finland as well as internationally, done research for design and architecture television programmes and taught at Aalto University. She is the editor-in-chief of Helsinki Design Weekly. She enjoys spending time on a sailboat and on skis and is a lover of thoughtful details.

Melbourne / Creative Director

Founder of ONETOO, a brand and design studio based in Melbourne, Australia. I'm curious about the stories that shape individuals, cities and cultures.

London / Photographer

Photographer

Vienna / Photographer

Istanbul born artist Eylül Aslan has started with photography at an early age as a way to escape the patriarchal system she was born in. Having been introduced to feminism and human rights by her politician and activist mother, she took on photography to express herself and created a visual world of her own. Her art has taken her to Berlin, Germany where she continued to live and work for 5 years until recently when she finally moved to Vienna, Austria. Her work consists of a play with light and shadow, her fascination on the human body and different forms it takes. Her first two photography books Trauerweide (2014) and Dear Slut (2015) focus on feministic issues, while her latest book Trompe L'Oeil (2017) deals with the subjectivity of beauty, both for men and women."

Warsaw / Artist

Ewa Doroszenko - intermedia artist, Doctor of Fine Arts, lives and works in Warsaw. Graduate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland in 2019 and the City of Toruń in the field of culture in 2013 and 2011. A laureate of many international competitions, including Preview – Fait Gallery, Brno, 2016; Debuts 2018 – doc! photo magazine; Debut 2018 – Lithuanian Photographers Association; finalist of Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, 2021; Kranj Foto Fest, 2021; International Festival of Photography FIF BH – Brazil 2020; Athens Digital Arts Festival, 2020; GENERATE! Festival for Electronic Arts, 2019; Der Greif and the World Photography Organization open call, 2018; FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, 2015; Gray House Foundation Competition, Krakow, 2011. Participant in numerous artist residency programmes, including Re_Act contemporary art laboratory in Portugal, Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz in Austria, The Island Resignified Lefkada in Greece, Petrohradska Kolektiv Prague in the Czech Republic, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center in Lithuania, AAVC Hangar Barcelona in Spain, Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik in Norway. Her works have been presented at the Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw, the Wozownia Art Gallery in Toruń, the Center for Contemporary Art in Toruń, Fait Gallery in Brno, Propaganda Gallery in Warsaw, Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum.

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