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Paris / Canal

Very popular in the warm days, deserted at night, frozen in winter. I grew up with canals and long walks along them, so it's nice to do the same here.

Munich / Nature

Best spot for freeriding. Amazing views. 1,5 h. away from Munich.

Paris / Bookstore

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

London / River

Behind Markfield Beam Engine is the River Lee which travels from the Chiltern Hills all the way to the Thames via Tottenham Hale. There is a special light along this stretch of the river possibly due to there being about 10 massive reservoirs behind the levee on the other side of the river, offering an amazing sense of space. A great place to walk, cycle and feed the ducks, swans, geese and coots.

Barcelona / Restaurant

Try pintxos!

London / Area

Southbank has organically evolved into a place of cultural significance through the persistent creative use of skateboarders spanning over generations. Southbank is currently under threat of being destroyed and replaced by coffee shops and retail outlets. There has been an alternative skate spot preposed to be built under Hungerford Bridge, this at first glance seems like an appropriate solution. Unfortunately this undermines the grassroots movement that has been developed over the years. Skateboarders have utilised the unsuspecting angles of brutalist architecture in a way they were originally not intended, in doing so they have created a space that is special and unreplicable. You can help save this historic place by signing the petition.

Paris / Market

I go to the flea market in St Ouen to look for old cameras and expired film. But it’s also a great place to see all the different walks of life from Paris’ extreme social scene. At the top of the ladder you’ve got the aristo-bourgeois crowd acquiring Louis XV furniture at the indoor antiques markets; the thirty-something bobo set paying way over the odds for mid-century designer chairs and formica tables; the banlieusards from the Neuf Trois getting kitted out with the latest sneakers and hoodies along the rue des Rosières; then at the very bottom you’ve got people trying to scratch a living selling second hand food at the Carré des biffes at Porte Montmartre. It’s an eye opener for sure.

Lisbon / Restaurant

Off-the-beaten-path, just outside Lisbon. The best seafood! Humble and local atmosphere. Check the opening times first + Sr. Domingos doesn't open when his football team plays!

Beijing / Cafe

One of our favorite meet-up places in old town Beijing close to Ditan Park. Renovated on a garage by a design veteran, the place has its unique and soulful character. A thoughtful blend of old town style and contemporary design that produces a solid and edgy vibes, true to Beijing. Their seasonal coffee menu and house desserts never fails to amaze us.

Brussels / Restaurant

Asian haute cuisine. Highly creative with a very nice natural wine selection. Love this place.

Berlin / Architecture

Historical district with buildings designed by Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer and many more.

New York / Restaurant

This place is very good. Korean inspired diner food. Get the Breakfast Burrito with Sausage, Honey Butter Pancakes, Chicken Katsu. The mushroom burger is very good too.

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Los Angeles / Graphic Designer

I am Aiqi Zhang. I love seeing what happens in the extremes, it is also the way I deal with graphic design. Currently, I’m prototyping in all dimensions. With each project, I look for ways to bring my work into a spatial and digital world, allowing people to experience it in new and exciting ways. My desire is to create a multidisciplinary practice with no boundaries.

San Francisco / Photographer

Photographer

London / Artist

Artist

Katowice / Graphic Designer

graphic designer + art director / katowice

Vienna / Art Director

Verena is founder and heart of Studio Es, vienna-based studio specialised in graphic design creating bold, concept-based experimental, and evocative works for a multitude of media.

Amsterdam / Photographer

Popel Coumou lives and works in Amsterdam and studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her work consists out of analog photographs of collaged spaces that hint at human presence. Through her use of lighting she transforms the collages into 3 dimensional spaces that seem both natural and unhinged.

New York / Graphic Designer

Tanya is a multilingual and bicultural Design Director based in New York with experience in branding, art direction, advertising, packaging, print design and web.

New York / Art Director

Saxon Campbell is designer, creative, and photographer. Saxon is from Oklahoma originally but currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Saxon graduated Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma with a bachelor's of art degree, majoring in visual communication with photography and minoring in graphic design. Saxon has lived in the New York for awhile now working with clients of all kinds. Saxon’s has worked in fashion, fitness, residential, university, and non-profit organizations. Saxon works with a wide range of freelance clients and working with his fashion blog. (es-cape.co) Saxon is open to all and any work you might have for him. Send him an email. (info@saxoncampbell.com)

Tokyo / Artist

Mayumi Yamase is an artist living and working in Tokyo. Her work whether a drawing, a painting or in 3D-form is composed of colours and organic forms. How the space is occupied with these colours and shapes helps to unfold unexpected forms organically grown like a plants and living like organs and a unique dialogue between them. Mayumi has exhibited pieces in London, Singapore and numerous times in throughout Japan alongside commissioned work for Comme des Garçons.

Bilbao / Cinematographer

DoP. 35. Living between Bilbao and Madrid

Tel Aviv-Yafo / Artist

digital artist, influencer and owner of KOKETIT brand. The world is my canvas.

Cape Town / Designer

Academic Head - Cape Town Creative Academy (www.ctca.co.za) Associate - Creative Leadership Consultancy (www.creativeleaderhsipconsultancy.com)

Nashville / Artist

Greg Lutze is a mixed-race Asian American founder, advisor and artist. A polymath, his interests lie in a variety of creative pursuits including design, photography, music, painting, fragrance and fashion. The Co-Founder of VSCO, Greg is a leader driven by creative vision and soul. VSCO has been named Apple’s “App of the Year,” Google Play’s “Best Apps” and Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in Social Media.” Currently, his focus lies in Plaza, creating decentralized spaces for research, creation and exchange. He is a member of Gold House, a non-profit collective of Asian & Pacific Islander founders, creative voices, and leaders; a venture partner at Hidden, investing in the future of creative work; and a mentor at Praxis Labs, a creative engine supporting innovators motivated to love their neighbors and renew culture. Greg serves as an advisor to creative startups Self & Chroma.

Portland / Artist

COLOR / STORY Brandi Katherine Herrera is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and translator, whose work in text, image, and sound explores the poetics of space. She is the author of Mutterfarbe, a full-length work of color theory, experimental translation, photography, and poems using Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre as a primary source; and Natürlicher, a chapbook-length work of color theory, experimental translation, and poems (both Broken Cloud Press, 2016); a co-author of MAR, a collaborative artist book + limited-edition chapbook of photography, marrings, and poems (Lute & Cleat, 2018); and the co-editor of The Lake Rises, a Witness Post Series anthology of poems (Stockport Flats, 2013). Her work is held in the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection, Yale University’s Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color, UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Library, University at Buffalo’s Poetry Collection, and Reed College’s Special Collections & Archives, and has been featured in a number of solo + group exhibitions, performance series, and publications, including: the Seattle Art Museum, Cube Gallery, 23 Sandy Gallery, Creative Mornings, Poetry Press Week, Pure Surface, The Volta, Octopus Magazine, The Common, Poor Claudia, Word/For Word, Thru Magazine, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, and Womenspeak PDX.

Antwerp / Creative Director

Louise Mertens runs an art studio based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work as an art director became a trademark of herself. The studio became a place where her personal artwork and carefully selected client work come together. Her visual world combines the admiration for human forms & futurism with purity, sophistication and the incomprehensible. Her eye for aesthetics leads to international client projects ranging from concepts, campaign visuals & creative direction.

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