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London / Cafe

Great little neighbourhood hangout. Delicious food, good coffee and open evenings Thursday-Saturday. Next to the Sylvanian Family shop!

London / Art

Architecture collective Assemble has transformed a former public swimming pool to create a new art centre for Goldsmiths college. The baths were closed to public in 1999. The space now accommodated seven new gallery spaces, a cafe and event space.

Los Angeles / Shop

Small book store with really hard to find photography and art books. Love their collection of stuff as well as presentation.

London / Other

G.F. Smith's permanent showroom, in Central London. Visits are by appointments only — But I would definitely recommend making the visit. All of their stocks are beautifully archived, along with example publications, and a rotating series of paper installations in both the window & basement, courtesy of Made Thought.

Amsterdam / Bar

Eclectic brewery for IPA's, music and art.

New York / Restaurant

Most of the food here is meant to be eaten family-style with everyone sharing all the dishes on the table. Most of these dishes are best when accompanied by rice: Northern and Northeastern Thai dishes with sticky rice, Central and Southern Thai with jasmine rice. In Thailand, only a spoon and fork are used: the spoon to eat with and the fork to push food onto the spoon. We encourage you to try this method as it is the easiest way to eat many of these dishes. Some things are traditionally eaten with the hands such as grilled meat and sticky rice. Please ask your server for guidance if you wish. Chopsticks are normally used only when eating noodles, Vietnamese or Chinese food (they will be supplied if appropriate with a certain dish), however chopsticks are available upon request.

Madrid / Place

Though you might say the city is full of colors, from Velazquez's tones of greys to Miro's vivid strokes and shapes. From Goya's darkness to Picasso's blues, Rastro's potency and variety of people and fabrics, or even shop windows for tourists full of Sevillanas and colorful magnets - the biggest canvas is above all of us. It's hard to beat the intense blue of Madrid's sky. I have no idea if Giotto has been here, but I'm pretty sure he was inspired by Madrid's sky to paint Padua's chapel's ceiling. The smoothest blue of Madrid's sky lies in contrast with the dryness and ocre buildings and landscape gives me torticollis. The colors may vary from mediterranean sea, Yves Klein Blue and Pantone 293C. It doesn't matter how it's defined - it is, for me, a boost of cheerfulness in any place and mindset I find myself in. I won't be able to touch or reach the blueness of this sky, but it touches me. Deeply. And I happily allow it.

Berlin / Transport

Möckernbrücke is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the western Kreuzberg district, named after a nearby bridge crossing the Landwehrkanal. The bahnhof (train station) is part of the first Stammstrecke route of the Berlin U-Bahn opened on February 15, 1902. As the station also served the nearby Anhalter Bahnhof the original building was soon getting too small to cope with the rising number of passengers. It therefore was demolished and replaced by the current station opened on March 25, 1937. Severely damaged by air raids it was closed on January 30, 1944 and not reopened until June 16, 1947. I like it here for the spookiness and feeling of impending doom that it has on a rainy day.

Barcelona / Architecture

One of the most special buildings of the city

London / Art

Beautiful gallery just off Bermondsey St, I've never been disappointed by what I've seen at White Cube

London / Pub

Hands down my favourite pub in London. Go for the day.

Stockholm / Museum

A safe bet for some cultural stimulation on the island Skeppsholmen in the centre of Stockholm, great location with a nice book/design shop.

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Copenhagen / Designer

Designer at Makers With Agendas

Cape Town / Graphic Designer

Kim Van Vuuren is a South African artist and designer based in Cape Town and Barcelona. She enjoys exploring the natural occurring forms and compositions that surround her. These forms, and shapes are then translated into designs. Apart from being a full time artist and illustrator Kim also specializes in Branding, Identity Design, Web and UI Design.

Rotterdam / Architect

I am a young architect fascinated by the city dynamic, dedicated to contribute my part in the liveliness of our urban fabric, professionally as well as a user. On the one hand, I see it as my purpose to design architecture towards vibrant encounters with the world around us. On the other, I see it as my duty to experience this lively reality, to enjoy and be inspired. I love sharing these inspirations with the community on this website.

Sydney / Creative Director

Director / Founder Semi Permanent

Lisbon / Art Director

I'm a Graphic Designer and Art Director from Lisbon. (Also a Balearic DJ in my spare time).

Tokyo / Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer. Take her visual language as an axis, she is dealing with branding, signage planning for architecture, editorial design etc. In parallel with that, she is constantly releasing a project called HUMAN NATURE which questioning the way of symbiotic relationship between human and nature.

Rome / Artist

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Manchester / Graphic Designer

Rick Banks, is a graphic designer, typographer, publisher and proud northerner. Working under the moniker of Face37 he has helped create some of the world's most loved brands, including EE, Triumph Motorcycles, AXA, British Heart Foundation and adidas. Specialising in brand, book and type design, his work has won numerous awards, including a yellow pencil from D&AD and a TDC from the Type Directors Club in Tokyo. He has been featured in the Creative Review Annual, as well as receiving recognition from the respected Creative Circle, Communication Arts, TDC (NY) and ISTD. His work has been published internationally, and exhibited in the London Design Museum and Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo. His products, such as Type Trumps, have sold worldwide and can be found in respected design retailers around the world, from the Tate Modern in London to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. And his foundry, F37, has released fonts including Bella and Ginger, licensed by global brands such as Google, Selfridges and PepsiCo, with the foundry’s website winning awards for digital innovation in the process. Rick takes an active role in the design community, lecturing on branding and typography around the world, and judging various awards including the ‘Crafts for Design’ category for the 2017 D&AD awards. Even more important to him though is the role that design can play in bettering the world around him, having donated both his time and publishing proceeds towards worthwhile causes for the likes of the Football Foundation and Horwich St Mary’s.

Los Angeles / Film Director

Micaela McLucas is a filmmaker and artist based between Los Angeles, Paris and London. She studied at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and completed her MFA in Contemporary Photography at Central Saint Martins in London. Raised between Argentina and LA, always on an airplane, always out of context. Three passports, four languages, learned every life lesson by getting kicked in the teeth, which is why her work hits the way it does. Her influences range from trash TV to French philosophy and cinema has always been the core obsession. Her work moves between fashion, theory and lived experience in ways that feel both precise and unruly. The world she builds is psychedelic, intimate and unapologetically feminine. She mines her own life for material and uses it to collapse fantasy and confession. Everything is neon soaked, surreal and intrusive, not to escape reality but to pierce it. She's currently writing and developing her first feature film while continuing her studio practice.

Munich / Artist

Katarina Sopčić was born in Valjevo, Serbia. She obtained her B.A. in Visual Communications from Universita Degli Studi di Firenze and M.A. in Design and Visual Communications at ISIA Florence - Industrial and Communication Design University, as well Diploma in Photography from Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Paris / Web Developer

Hi I'm Loïc, I work in music festival curation and analytics engineering

New York / Curator

I spend most of my time working on my startup reads.delivery— a monthly book subscription to inspire the forever learner. I also am a stylist and writer on the side.

Geneva / Artist

Sarah Haug is the artists and illustrator of the colorful “Fly Rabbits” – a marvelous comedy where she travels the world and contemporary society and everything becomes alive.

Amsterdam / Photographer

Photography. styling, gatherings, workshops; I love creating in all kinds of ways. Why choose one thing if you can create more? (IG: @verdenius). Co-Founder of The Gatherists (IG: @thegatheristst) organising small gatherings for like-minded creatives & entrepreneurs. Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Berlin / Designer

Raby-Florence Fofana is a Berlin based Artist & Designer. Her work intersects with art, illustration and design. She loves abstract composes in painting, collages and patterns and is also working sculptural with ceramic and porcelain.

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