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London / Bar

If your a drinker, like a good Sunday roast or want a friendly place to chill. Here you go.

Tiny Italian restaurant with a small menu that changes weekly. Always a fine selection of straightforward powerful dishes that always impress. A fine selection of natural wines and great service.

Salamanca / Museum

In a city with such a big presence of historical landmarks, the fact that the contemporary museum is housed in the former city jail seems rather ironic—a lounge bar is also quite fittingly located on the jail's patio. Conserving most of the old elements from its former use, the space is always worth visiting, even if it's only to interact with this wonderful permanent installation by Mona Hatoum. The piece, located in room 4, repurposes the cell's doors to form a revolving door without exit.

Tokyo / Park

It’s a really big beautiful botanical park in Tokyo with a nice green house. I went there a few months ago after the big typhoon hit there, many trees were knocked down by the killing wind, even big ones. Recently some newscaster’s body was found there, but hey, it’s still an amazing park.

Tuzla / Music Venue

A place I used to hang out with my friends. This place is meeting point for many musicians and artists in the last 25 years. It is an open space by the city river called Yala and National Theatre Tuzla.

Vienna / Cafe

Palmenhaus is a café, brasserie and bar inside a 1901-built greenhouse located in the Viennese Hofburg palace gardens. You can enjoy your coffee unter the massive steel structure on the light-filled inside of the greenhouse or – during summertime – on the outside terrace overlooking the Burggarten gardens.

Chicago / Art Centre

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

Valencia / Art Centre

On of my favorite places of Valencia, don't forget to visit their garden!

Amsterdam / Place

The portal between the Leidseplein nightlife area and the Max Eeuweplein is pompously accentuated by a classical looking façade, designed in 1991 by Zaanen Spanjers Architects. On the frieze, supported by columns, the architect has carved an inscription: ‘Homo sapiens non urinat in ventum’ - ‘A wise man does not piss into the wind’. A ‘wisecrack’, disguised in Latin.

Kyoto / Shop

If you’re looking for craftsmanship, make a stop at this shop !

Brussels / Shop

Ranked #132 in the world’s best record shops by The Vinyl Factory.

London / Nature

Epping Forest is a 2,400 hectares area of ancient woodland between Epping in the north and Wanstead in the south, straddling the border between Greater London and Essex. I tend to get off at Loughton Tube Station (Central Line), which is about 10–12min walk to the forest.

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London / Writer

Writer, editor, and curator based in London. Also working at Wallpaper* City Guides.

The Hague / Graphic Designer

Jaap Smit (1989) is an Independent graphic designer/art director, specialised in book design, identity & logo design, webdesign and more. Next to client projects he works on self-initiated assignments. With his own projects the focus is on structuring facts/data. He utilises freely available information and creates graphic parameters to structure it, resulting in methodically-made and often humorous work. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2017, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts.

Hong Kong / Graphic Designer

Graphic designer based in Seoul and Hong Kong

Lyon / Type Designer

Founder of Blaze Type, Art Director/Type Designer

Stockholm / Artist

Martin Hultén is a photographer and artist. He is mainly known for his tender and quirky depictions of people in his native Sweden - his past works include a series of portraits of men looking into the camera while simultaneously being caressed on the cheek, as well as several different projects looking at mans relation with nature, and videos exploring the border between still and motion. He is currently working with the upcoming book Doggerland, where he has taken a look at how dreams and desires are related to social structures and rituals in post-capitalist Sweden.

Buenos Aires / Illustrator

Sebastian Cestaro is an artist based in Argentina. His work is characterized by the construction of alternative worlds in which he combines abstract elements and figures giving the image a surreal finish.

Portland / Artist

COLOR / STORY Brandi Katherine Herrera is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and translator, whose work in text, image, and sound explores the poetics of space. She is the author of Mutterfarbe, a full-length work of color theory, experimental translation, photography, and poems using Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre as a primary source; and Natürlicher, a chapbook-length work of color theory, experimental translation, and poems (both Broken Cloud Press, 2016); a co-author of MAR, a collaborative artist book + limited-edition chapbook of photography, marrings, and poems (Lute & Cleat, 2018); and the co-editor of The Lake Rises, a Witness Post Series anthology of poems (Stockport Flats, 2013). Her work is held in the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection, Yale University’s Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color, UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Library, University at Buffalo’s Poetry Collection, and Reed College’s Special Collections & Archives, and has been featured in a number of solo + group exhibitions, performance series, and publications, including: the Seattle Art Museum, Cube Gallery, 23 Sandy Gallery, Creative Mornings, Poetry Press Week, Pure Surface, The Volta, Octopus Magazine, The Common, Poor Claudia, Word/For Word, Thru Magazine, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, and Womenspeak PDX.

London / Graphic Designer

Joseph Piper moved to London to study Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins in 2003. Based in the city, he is a creative with a personal interest in photography and commercial aspirations in branding and e-commerce. Joseph Piper has a soft spot for pugs, Fender guitars & Danish foxes.

New York / Designer

Interior designer in Brooklyn, NY

Tel Aviv-Yafo / Art Director

Liri Argov is a designer and art director based in Tel Aviv. Her Studio creates a harmonious business ecosystem, positioning and appearance. It's the smart fresh strategy and the clear visual that makes their brand come to life – analogically and digitally. As of 2017 Liri establish OFFFTLV, a visual design festival who invites those who are eager to learn and inspired to a 2 days journey of creativity.

London / Film Director

Dani Fish (pseudonym for Daniele Piscitello) is an animation director from Sicily.

Los Angeles / Artist

1717

Melbourne / Illustrator

Bing Bong

New York / Creative Director

I moved to downtown Manhattan in 2002 and now live in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood. I know most of my friends through my work designing art books and art-directing fashion magazines. Now that I have a wife and daughter, the most fun parts of my week take place during the day instead of at night.

Portland / Art Director

Ozlenen Ozbicerler is a graphic designer from Istanbul who currently lives and operates in Portland, Maine. She studies graphic design at Maine College of Art and works for the award-winning creative agency PULP + WIRE. Her specialty is editorial design, branding and art direction.

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