citylikeyou

An experiential event series dedicated to working with artists to bring new ecologies to architecturally unique spaces through transcendent audio and visual performance.

New York / Cafe

If I lived closer to the West Village I’d go over to Jack’s every morning for a coffee and occasionally having what is probably the best chocolate chip cookie in New York (and it’s just a dollar!). Even though it’s rarely in my way I try to go here now and then, maybe in combination with a stroll down the beautiful Bleeker Street or to read a book sitting in their window.

Los Angeles / Art

For books.

Tokyo / Hotel

Staying with DDD, a renovated boutique hotel introduced me to the Nihonbashi area where there is full of beautiful contrast between historic and modern cultures. Really enjoy the convenience of the location. The room is electrically designed that is so warm and cozy. The in-house gallery and cafe are also worth checking!

Barcelona / Botanical Garden

it is a cactus garden!

Rio de Janeiro / Art

A Mesa is an art gallery, founded by four women, who define it as a resistant space. It is located in the colorful Morro da Conceição, in front of a small square where talks and events are held in parallel with exhibitions, gathering local inhabitants and visitors.

Edinburgh / Place

One of the great things about Edinburgh is its abnormally large number of gardens and open spaces, including seven hills in and around it. A walk up this particular one on a sunny day is really pleasant. To the North you can see over the city to the sea and to the South you can see right in to the dark depths of the Scottish countryside.

New York / Place

When I first moved to New York, enamoured by its parks and museums and design firms and restaurants and bars, I never imagined that there could be much more to its geography than that. How wrong I was. My first drive across the George Washington Bridge was jaw-dropping - the cliffs of New Jersey are astonishingly tall, covered in a dense thicket of trees. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. Drive up 87 to the Catskills or the Adirondacks and you'll witness the Hudson River winding its way through spectacular scenery and unforgiving seasons. Now I can't get enough; just two hours up the road, it's like the city never existed. Perfect recuperation after a long week.

Paris / Cafe

Your typical brunch vibe, love the shakshuka.

Oakland / Restaurant

Favorite Chinese spot. Everyone agrees - best homemade noodles.

Antwerp / Restaurant

I love this place any time. The food's always so fresh!

Oxford / Shop

Stepping in to the vibrant shop Scriptum in Oxford is like stepping in to a shop in Harry Potter. If you ever need a visionary prop – imagine... anything, this is the place to visit.

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Amsterdam / Artist

Set Designer and spatial designer based in Amsterdam. Currently doing a master in interior architecture at the Sandberg instituut.

New York / Photographer

Spencer Wohlrab is elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes which can be distinguished from a legless lizard by his lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, Spencer is ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. To accommodate his narrow body, Spencer’s paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung.

London / Photographer

Photographer from London. Clients include Nike, Adidas and Reebok

Prague / Art Director

Sasyk Mihal is a 24 years old designer and art director based in Prague, working worldwide. He is particularly interested in different disciplines, from brand identities, typography, strategy, packaging and advertising across all platforms. He currently works as a remote designer at &Walsh.

New York / Artist

John Christian Rose is an artist and designer originally from Austin, TX now living in New York. Previously, he's worked at B.A.D. Studio, SSHH, and Pacific Books. Currently, he's a design intern at Gander.

Los Angeles / Artist

Matthew Brandt (b. 1982, Los Angeles) received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2004 and MFA from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2008. Interested in physicality, process and landscape, Brandt’s ability to stretch the readings of an image, multiplying them both physically and conceptually, speaks directly to his interest in how images loom and meanings shift within a shared visual history. His work is the clever manifestation of a photographic alchemist, satisfying the urge for the tangible, and grounding us in the present. Brandt’s precocious talent has landed him in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Elton John Collection. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Montreal / Photographer

Photographer, graphic designer based in Montreal, Canada

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.

Montreal / Publicist

Boutique Wholesale and PR Agency Owner

Barcelona / Graphic Designer

Mariano Pagella is an argentinean graphic designer & art director; a passionate about typography, colour and composition. He works from his creative studio Vasty, based in Barcelona; a multidisciplinary design boutique that focuses on the creation of imagery, visual expressions and identity, with the purpose to generate exquisite concepts by combining traditional graphic design and craft with a sensitive signature.

Barcelona / Art Director

Father, freak & founder.

Paris / Artist

Lucile brizard - filmmaker and photographer

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.

Copenhagen / Music Producer

Multidisciplinary creative, based in Copenhagen.

New York / Art Director

Hilary Greenbaum is a New York-based graphic designer and design writer. Currently a staff designer and columnist at The New York Times Magazine, she studied design at the California Institute of the Arts (MFA 2006) and Carnegie Mellon University (BFA 2001). Her work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club, the AIGA, the Society for News Design and the Output Foundation.

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