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Milan / Gallery

Modern design space and gallery, home of Capsule magazine. Store and coffee shop next door.

Paris / Bookstore

A fantastic bookstore, with a wonderful selection of books on photography, architecture, painting, graphics, design, cinema, music and cooking

New York / Restaurant

I love enjoying some Amazing Vietnamese food at this place before heading out to the different bars around Jefferson on L. The restaurant is just behind Elsewhere so you have a nice mix of things to do if you start your night here.

Shanghai / Art

IS A GALLERY is located at the site of the Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute, the birthplace of modern Chinese fonts and one of the first type foundries in China. The type foundry was established in August 1956 and even created the occupation of type designer in China. In the 1960s, China used “renovating the old and innovating” to guide its printed typeface design plan at the Institute, which was the only typeface research laboratory in the country at the time. Through the Institute, the title of “typeface designer” was established and the first generation of typeface designers made great contributions to the standardization of Chinese characters. The four common printing typefaces created by the institute, Ming (宋体), Heiti (黑体), Kai (楷体), and Fangsong (仿宋) are widely used, such as in the familiar horizontal editions of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, the Cihai, and thousands of science and education books. In 2009, the Hanzi typeface sketching craftsmanship project《字印刷字体书写技艺》 enacted by the Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute was included in the second edition of the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage List. In the 1980s, the Institute took the lead in digitizing a standard typeface library and oversaw the 748 Project free of charge for the printing typefaces listed above, which have become the basic digital typefaces for famous companies such as FounderType.Typefaces used in digital products today are derived from the original scripts provided by the Institute. Established in early 2021, IS A GALLERY works at this modern heritage site to continue bridging traditional graphic design with forward-thinking arts programming and public dialogue. Operating on a four-season model, the gallery alternates between themes of design, multimedia/photography, traditional media, and education in planning exhibitions and providing an open environment for domestic and international artists, designers, curators, educators, scholars, and writers. Conversations between the international and the local are key to IS A GALLERY, which presents shorter, one-month exhibitions in order to create currents across practices. Alongside exhibition programming, IS A GALLERY supports different modes of design, artistic, scholarly, and educational work through different platforms for public engagement. Digital works, online exhibitions, and stand-alone projects are curated online as part of IS A WEB. IS A STUDIO invites members of art, design, and interdisciplinary studios to present lectures, dialogues, and writing without exhibition responsibilities, while IS A SCHOOL works with educators and scholars to present conversations on the latest practices. The gallery’s QUEER ROOM develops the possibilities of a gallery space through dialogues and sharing sessions with queer practitioners. BOOK THE BOOK is the publishing arm of IS A GALLERY, printing publications that record and present the gallery’s exhibitions. From a single exhibition space, IS A GALLERY creates international dialogue about design, art, and education.

Antwerp / Cafe

Right next to the art academy of Antwerp, this small café is a terrific place to sit down and enjoy the view of people passing by. Their coffee is very good and they also have a variety of ways to prepare it, if you're into that stuff.

Frankfurt / Art

It's just a must go, if you like art. This place is a bit hidden but easy too find. It's located in the old beautiful Frankfurt square, Römerplatz.

Chicago / Place

Chicago is a gigantic open-air museum of hand painted signs and murals where you can still find gold leaf lettering in shop windows and ghost signs litter the city's brick walls. This handmade sign is on the wall of a Mexican garage near my apartment.

Amsterdam / Restaurant

A lively hotspot in the heart of Amsterdam in emerald green tones.

São Paulo / Place

Built to revitalize a former trash incinerator, the square is the perfect place to spend an afternoon drawing, talking to friends and thinking about nothing.

New York / Bookstore

The only graphic design bookstore in New York City. Shameless plug—it's also my company! Our design office, Order, is operated in the back, in full view of all visitors. Come say hi!

Zürich / Cafe

Lovely coffee shop in Seefeld, they offer a selection of international magazines and objects.

Buenos Aires / Cafe

n Buenos Aires, the late-afternoon slow-down just means it's time for ¨merienda¨.

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London / Designer

Murals, wallpaper design, painter..

Konstanz / Graphic Designer

Annina is a German graphic designer born in Würzburg and currently living in Constance with a focus on editorial design. After having espresso at a small gelateria on the other side of the street, she is working in-beetween her 30 succulents while listening to detective stories. Her approach is to make her projects look as much fun as she had making them.

London / Creative Director

Documentary director based in London

Moscow / Graphic Designer

I am graphic designer from Moscow, Russia

New York / Creative Director

Head of Creative Forsman & Bodenfors in New York. Collector of visual treats 🍎 Instagram @appleoftheday

Seoul / Graphic Designer

Jaehoon Choi is Seoul based graphic designer. He mainly creates identity system for brands and institutions, promotional and printed material design for cultural events and art exhibitions.

Marseille / Illustrator

Born close to the Atlantic ocean, now based in Marseille, France. I like to draw on skin or paper mainly bodies, faces, plants, statues and stones with hard lines and minimal shapes. I work mainly for press, small press and on personal projects. Find my work in progress on instagram.com/amina_bouajila ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Paris / Photographer

Photographer based in Paris and Tokyo

Tokyo / Writer

Xiao Yue Shan is a poet, writer, editor, and translator. The collection, then telling be the antidote, won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in 2023. The chapbook, How Often I Have Chosen Love, won the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published in 2019. She has received the New Millennium Award for Poetry and the Juxtaprose Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award, and the Ambit Poetry Competition. Poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Poetry Northwest, and more. Prose works have appeared in Granta, 3:AM Magazine, Electric Literature, Cleveland Review of Books, The Shanghai Literary Review, and more. Poem-films have shown in festivals in London, Vienna, New York City, and Athens. Her work has been supported by the Canadian Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and Arts Council Tokyo. She runs the Beijing-based, bilingual literary journal Spittoon Literary Magazine, and edits Tokyo Poetry Journal and the Asymptote Journal blog. Her website is shellyshan.com

Nottingham / Designer

Mac Collins is a British furniture and object maker. Working predominantly with timber and glass, Mac focuses on manipulating, yet still celebrating, the inherent beauty of the materials he works with.

London / Creative Director

Founder & CEO of Everpress. Living & working in East London.

London / Photographer

Daniel originally from Portsmouth moved to London just over 3 years ago. He works in a variety of mediums. His recent work consist of setting up structures for drawing that encourage chance to determine the form, this excludes him from making any aesthetic decision. By using this conceptual logic he creates a system in which a process is started, continued for an undetermined amount of time, then finally stopped by the rule that birthed it. This thinking is also expressed in his photography which depict the unintentionally created forms of various other processes.

Paris / Photographer

Florent Tanet (1987 ) is a French photographer and art director working and living in Paris . In 2013 he devoted himself exclusively to photography and art direction with a strong interest for still-life . Multidisciplinary photographer, he works at the intersection of art, sculpture, graphic design and photography. His photos make ordinary scenes and objects into something complex and remarkable. Florent takes complete freedom with the objects and use them as material to create his compositions.

London / Film Producer

Mum. Producer. Londoner 4 lyf.

Lucerne / Illustrator

Anja Wicki works as a comic artist and illustrator in Lucerne. Since 2010 she publish together with Andreas Kiener and Luca Bartulovic the Ampel Magazin.

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