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London / Shop

Sometimes when I wake up it feels like I am at sea watching a big ocean liner pass by. It is the view from my home in one of the two stepped concrete apartment blocks that make up the Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury. When you visit skip the chain stores of the shopping centre below (except for the excellent Renoir Cinema) and instead get an invitation to one of the small but gorgeous flats with their winter gardens or just wander through the spectacular concrete A frames and across the vast sun drenched terraces on podium level.

Melbourne / Place

Believe it or not, if you drive far enough from the city, the Yarra River is a beautiful place to spend a Summer's day swimming. Warrandyte is a haven of shady gumtrees, flowing rapids, and rocks to perch yourself on while the water rushes past. Bring beers, but esky optional - the water is cool enough to keep them chilled all day.

Amsterdam / Place

My studio is situated on top of a Fifties concrete modernist apartment building in the Rivierenbuurt in the south of Amsterdam. The best thing is that my building is just one floor higher then the rest of the houses in the neighborhood so I get a good view of the city and the ever changing Dutch skies. What makes my view really special is the view from the balcony on an inaccessible inner garden. The garden is made on the roof of a parking garage of an office building and nobody can go there since there are no stairs or entrance. Once a year the gardeners come with a tall ladder. They are the only ones that enter the garden ever. The nice thing is that still there is a winding path in the middle of the garden for only your eye to trace it.

Copenhagen / Museum

This is one of the places in Copenhagen that I know will do the job if I need some inspiration. The museums’ collections spans from over seven centuries, from early renaissance to current art. Especially the modern collection with its paintings, installations and performance art kickstart the old imagination. Not only is the collection great, the architecture of the museum is equally beautiful. The old part is a classic museum-building, just as you would expect, but the newer addition is connected by floor to ceiling glass, doing a great job in separating the collections (classic and modern) as it physically changes the context.

Jersey City / Restaurant

Our Hero has been open for something like 40 years. It is only open for lunch. The owner Al slices all the meat and cheese to order, then passes the sub along to whoever else is working that day for basic sub toppings. You can get a good sized sub for $5, cash only. I go here enough to where they know my order, I know the price and no one has to say a word. I can be slow if the high school across the street let out recently or someone comes in with an order for coworkers.

Zürich / Bookstore

Super cute stationery shop and book store for paper lovers

Melbourne / Cafe

Melbourne is one of the coffee capitals of the world so the standard is very high. There are heaps of good cafes around, but sitting on top of the pile is at Brother Baba Budan. Specialists in single origin coffee from quality international coffee beans. When ever I’m in the city, this is where I get my caffeine fix. Usually it’s a smooth silky Caffe latte that goes down way too easily. The quirky ceiling made from chairs is worth a look too.

Vancouver / Beauty Salon

After years of shaving my own head I found these guys and they did a haircut in 10 minutes without an awkward conversation, and it was the hair cut I always wanted but didn't know how to ask for it. Good music playing as well, sometimes.

Sydney / Library

With heaps of curves, greenery and natural light, this library is super conducive to working and learning — plus there's a secret slippery slide for kids that goes through the middle of the building, just for fun

Oslo / Shop

Very nice record shop, with a good selection of records, and some books and merch. Very friendly staff who likes helping visitors find music they might like.

Paris / Restaurant

Very good and cheap vietnamese food.

Valencia / Restaurant

Great spot for lunch or Almuerzos in the middle of the Alameda garden. It's a small kiosk with both indoor and outdoor seating. La Pergola has become a classic destination, serving sandwiches for over 30 years — the bombón is their star sandwich. I will never forget the joy on my boyfriend's face when his sandwich arrived with chips INSIDE the sandwich and then the look of delight when he took his first bite.

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Paris / Artist

Paris based artist and animation director

London / Creative Director

London based Italian inventor & designer | Founder & Creative Director of Special Projects

London / Designer

Adrian Westaway Co-founder & Director of Technology and Magic at Special Projects Adrian is an inventor, engineer and experience designer on a mission to make the human-technology interaction meaningful and delightful. As co-founder of Special Projects he harnesses technology, inclusive research and magic thinking to devise design propositions that feel familiar yet wondrous. A self-taught magician since the age of 11 and full member of the Magic Circle, he relentlessly pursues his conviction that “designers should use magic thinking and try to introduce surprise, delight and fuzzy feeling in the things they create.” After becoming the first ever James Dyson Fellow in 2007, and a Fellow of the Royal Commission of 1851, in 2010, for his work on interactive lighting systems, Adrian built a playground in Peru, had whisky with Derren Brown as a student in Bristol, and tried to make his teachers disappear. His contagious passion for magic and engineering made him a beloved tutor and lecturer in Design & Innovation at Queen Mary University and the Royal College of Art, in London and a visiting faculty member at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. There he teaches ‘Magic and Design’, a nomadic workshop where students are introduced to methods of using design and technology to create enchanted products and experiences.

Seoul / Artist

I am Choi Sung Min who is active in Seoul, Korea. I create cartoons and paintings based on my love for publishing cartoons.

Frankfurt / Artist

Nada Lottermann and Vanessa Fuentes’ strong childhood bond set the foundations for their successful, joint career in photography. Based in Frankfurt, the duo’s images are modern, sexy and fun. Their distinct photographic style was shown in the Galerie für Moderne Fotografie and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In their exhibition, entitled “PING PONG”, they present playful pictures that were often spontaneously, yet precisely, executed.

London / Photographer

Photographer - Film Maker - Creative Researcher - DJ

Barcelona / Art Director

There is a lot of BLA, BLA, BLA in the word “Design”. For us, design is synonymous with project, the plan. The aesthetic results of a project are the consequence of objectives sought in the design process and that often include other values. MgComunicació has been working to achieve business goals for nearly two decades. We avoid aesthetic makeups to delve into the reality of each project we want our work to pick up real fruits for our customers economy. Flexibility, agility, commitment to our projects and alignment of interests among all people, companies, entities and / or institutions is what creates a strong flow of energy. This working method allows the team to adapt to the expectations of each client, with lower costs and the technical characteristics and commercial models of different projects.

London / Artist

London based Finnish artist/illustrator

New York / Artist

Scott Albrecht is an artist and designer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is a graphic representation of his experiences, often a result of abstracting typography and exploring an idea through a more visual or physical language. Through various approaches, the shapes and relationships within his work are informed by letters and characters from an underlying message inspired by daily events and reinterpreted into his own unique styles.

Hong Kong / Artist

Artist based in Hong Kong

Milan / Creative Director

Creative Director at Grumble Creative, my own creative & digital agency based in Milan. My life motto Emotivamente scossa.

Lisbon / Art Director

Magazine Art Director and Barista.

London / Photographer

I'm an Interiors and Still Life Photographer, based in London. Kristy was raised in 14 houses over the 18 years she grew up in North Yorkshire. It may be this steady flow of homes, and way of living, that led to her curiosity to shape the everyday. Her love of photography was cemented in the Autumn of 2005 while spending six months at university in Springfield, Missouri, developing her calm, clean and focussed style while photographing with her Mamiya C330. She draws influence from American and European Modernist architecture, along with suburban imagery from the 1950’s onwards, creating surreal and playful imagery hinged on her desire to form intrigue, through line, form and arrangement.

Berlin / Photographer

Artist / Photographer

New York / Illustrator

I am Helen Eunhwa Oh, Korea-born illustrator based in New York. I love to draw something that I have seen in my everyday life and make the images little funky with vivid, rich and diverse colors.

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