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Copenhagen / Hotel

Small hotel with a nice lobby bar. I hang here for coffee or drinks with friends. A inner courtyard that reminds me a bit abut Hotel Amour in Paris.

Barcelona / Museum

museum

Stockholm / Park

Close to the water this park has animals, swings, climbing frames and playhouse. I place for families to play with there kids, but in the evening the area is occupied by teenagers.

Beijing / Place

A hutong is a type of narrow street or alley most commonly associated with Beijing. Since the mid-20th century, the number of Beijing hutongs has dramatically decreased as they are facing demolition to make way for new roads and buildings. More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history. I love walking around the hutongs when I need a break from the office (my current office is located in a particularly interesting hutong neighbourhood); they are a great exemplar of ancient urban planning and architecture, and breathe "the old way of life".

Shanghai / Bookstore

Really good bookstore selling rare zines by artists around the world. There's also a riso press in the same location printing some of the products.

New York / Restaurant

If you’re looking for this restaurant by reading the words printed on the awnings of Division Street, you’ll need to know Cantonese: “Kiki’s Greek Tavern” is written only in Chinese characters. Olive green doors and stone walls on the eatery’s interior are a better tell, and are touches that suit the Mediterranean cuisine of Kiki’s well. The restaurant’s Greek cuisine is straightforward and delicious, so whether you order seafood, lamb, or salad, you really can’t go wrong.

Amsterdam / Library

Her I enjoy the quit and concentrated atmosphere. I go to the library if I need some new input or just want to work somewhere else than in my studio. You can also just go there to relax at one of the beautiful spots in the building. Or have some food at the top floor with a beautiful view over Amsterdam.

New York / Art

A community-engaged and accessible arts space dedicated to supporting artists in the production and presentation of public artworks. Socrates does not have a permanent collection and all artworks are temporarily on view.

Munich / Attraction

There are two lion statues standing at the entrance of the Public Treasury building. The first time I passed this site, I was quite surprised to see more that one persons passing by them, rubbing there nose as if they would be little doggies. Even bikers hold on to give them a little stroke. For some reasons rubbing their noses is meant to give you good luck. Looking at how the material got polished, I can imagine how people are sensitive to myths or just superstitious. So am I... now each time I pass there, I do the same.

Geneva / Restaurant

The Tea is an address as only geneve knows how to propose them, a little jewel of the Chinese restoration that you will discover only by chance or hotly recommended by connoisseurs and / or fans (and they are many). Nestled in the heart of the Quartier des Bains, this tiny Asian specialty restaurant offers genuine and delicious cuisine, featuring a myriad of Dim-Sum (steamed ravioli) to discover or rediscover. In addition to its culinary specialties for which the establishment is particularly recognized, the Tea, like its name suggests, proposes especially a very wide selection of Chinese teas with evocative and poetic names, whose aficionados of the kind can easily be relished. You will also discover many accessories for The Tea, including a multitude of teapots in fonts or sandstones all more cute ones than the others: quite charming.

Brighton / Pub

I always feel I'm in a bar in European city when I come here, its cavernous but comforting at the same time. The pub is located right by London Road Station and is one of the few places I've found in Brighton that serves Murphys Irish stout and great cheesy chips.

Vienna / Architecture

If you are into Brutalism and would like to see something different in Vienna (apart from Schönbrunn Palace and its historic city centre …) this church is worth the journey. On the basis of a model by Fritz Wotruba, the Austrian sculptor, the church was built from 1974–76. (Photo: Thomas Ledl)

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New York / Creative Director

I am a creative director with a love of storytelling. I have lead magazines large and small in New York and Europe. I currently lead an in-house brand studio for the Philadelphia Inquirer. I love to travel.

Daugavpils / Artist

Alnis Stakle is a photography-based artist from Daugavpils, Latvia. He holds PhD in art education from Daugavpils University. Besides being artist, he teaches photojournalism and creative photography at Daugavpils University and Riga Stradins University. Since 2011 year he works on a project “Not Even Something” that is a research on the interstices in the city environment. Even though these interstices cover small territories, they are always intended for traversing rather than staying. No one wishes to linger there, because they are an intermediate between home and work, between one living space and another. These spaces are located between the meaningful and the meaningful, and themselves remain in the field of the insignificant and inessential. These are the places where we feel no desire to be in just like that, because with their aura of insignificance they not only make us feel as outsiders, but even “push” us away.

Berlin / Animator

✺ Brand & Motion Designer from Italy based in Berlin ➫ In love with colorful & unique designs that bring positive energy to a chaotic world ❥ In love with cycling! ✳︎

Paris / Art Director

Art Director and CGI artist freelance based in Paris

London / Writer

Sustainable fashion writer and editor, former fashion editor for Metro newspaper. Founder of hownowmagazine.com

Linz / Art Director

Art Director from Austria

Cardiff / Graphic Designer

Designer

London / Publicist

Life is so rich

Antwerp / Graphic Designer

Oliver Ibsen resides in Antwerp. He's a convinced feminist.

Antwerp / Graphic Designer

Sterk Water is the moniker of Frank Schouwaerts. Art director with a keen eye for graphic design & typography that likes to cross the boundaries between graphic and conceptual design.

The Hague / Visual Artist

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Rotterdam / Graphic Designer

Joana Chicau is a designer, coder, researcher - with a background dance. Her transdisciplinary project interweaves media design and web environments with choreographic practices. Chicau has been researching the intersection of the body with the constructed, designed, programmed environment, aiming at in widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. She has been actively participating and organizing events with performances involving multi-location collaborative algorithmic improvisation, open discussions on gender equality and activism.

San Juan / Graphic Designer

Claudia Rubín is a graphic designer from Puerto Rico, based in Brooklyn, New York.

Amsterdam / Creative Director

Creative Director and Film Maker. Just as tall as Michael Jordan.

Hong Kong / Illustrator

Furze Chan is an Illustrator and graphic designer, who lives and works in Hong Kong. Furze is a regular contributor to Obscura Magazine. She is also one of the founders of 1984 Publishing. Her previous clients includes JR Central Japan Railways, M le magazine du Monde, Vice Media, and J.Crew.

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