Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too.

The stunning $465 million Richard Gilder Center for Science, designed like a canyon, is destined to become a colossal attraction.
[ Continue reading ]The idea is to die young as late as possible. — Ashley Montagu — Thursday May 31st — —
I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time. — Nayyirah Waheed — Thursday May 31st — —
“What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t. There are whole worlds around us that we’ve never glimpsed.” Greil Marcus — Thursday May 31st — —
The stunning $465 million Richard Gilder Center for Science, designed like a canyon, is destined to become a colossal attraction.
[ Continue reading ]Inspired by the Canadian military jacket with slanted chest pocket, this unlined relaxed fit item was designed for days in the field or weekends for anyone pretending to be utilitarian.
[ Continue reading ]The construction for J90 T-shirt comes directly from 80/90’s tour merch. We’ve updated the silhouette with a slim fit body but kept the single stitch & thick collar.
[ Continue reading ]The Byzantium Review…
[ Continue reading ]Give them a home, where the subway cars roam? The creative cobbler putting cowboy-boot tops on Nike Air Force Ones.
[ Continue reading ]A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness. Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write, Artless……
[ Continue reading ]This is my journey back to the foothills of Yatsugatake to visit KS Ultralight Gear and ask Laurent Barikosky to custom make a new pack for my friend.
[ Continue reading ]SLIPCASE SPECIAL EDITIONCOSTAHardcover / Color & B/W / 21 x 30.5 cm / 80 pages+‘Untitled#2’, 20×30 cm, Inkjet print on baryta paper, ed.25NOTE: Slipcase editions of COSTA includes ed.#11-25. For Editions #1-10, see COSTA boxed special edition.
[ Continue reading ]Read Steve Jobs in his own words in this free online book featuring speeches, quotes, emails, and photographs from the Steve Jobs Archive.
[ Continue reading ]The first release of the Capsule Home collection is a chair designed by Nuova in Los Angeles and manufactured in Italy. Featuring a durable fiberglass frame and natural pebble ECCO leather with a smooth touch, the soft yet monolithic shape of this lounge chair embraces the body like a nest-a…
[ Continue reading ]Our good friend Jess Henderson (pseud.) just published her first book Offline Matters, the less digital guide to creative work, and we’re beyond proud. Not because we designed it, but because this document feels like the so much needed wake-up-call, both confronting and insightful, inspiring and resonating. [ Continue reading ]
Earlier this year Rop van Mierlo and Remco van der Velden launched their collaborative project Wild Animals with the first edition called Tiger Merch. A beautiful collection of products consisting of mugs, sweaters, art prints, t-shirts, socks, a pyjama, a rug and even wrapping paper, all with the characteristically painted Tiger by Rop van Mierlo. [ Continue reading ]
In the heat of everything that has been taking place throughout the world it’s encouraging, inspiring and very educational to hear the many voices that need to be heard and understood and see the extraordinary initiatives all over the world in search for more equality. What touched us in particular is See In Black. A project where over 80 black photographers are selling original prints to raise funds for five non-profits that work to dismantle white supremacy and systematic oppression. See In Black’s “Black America Vol. 1” project is a highly-curated stock of images from photographers including Andre Wagner, Flo Ngala, and Renell Medrano that are on sale now. [ Continue reading ]
Greek photographer Yiannis Hadjiaslanis shared his latest project ‘Ascension’ with us. Shot on two visits to Mt. Bromo, in 2017, and 2020. Hadjiaslanis work explores narratives of places, documenting locations in Greece, across the Mediterranean and the African continent, he engages with questions of historical memory, the present conditions and speculated futures of lived environments, and their significance for those who live, create, interact and evolve with them. Whit his latest project Hadjiaslanis explores the Indonesian Mount Bromo, an open and bare landscape covered with ash in million shades of grey. A ‘Sea of Sand’. [ Continue reading ]
Over the course of multiple years, both industrial designers Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore, explored parts of the American Midwest researching eight material origins and their associated processes and history. Resulting in this highly aesthetic project called For the Rest of Us: A Journey into the Intangible Values of Regional Materials and Personal Computing. They’ve travelled extensively, interviewing dozens of people, collecting artefacts and taking pictures. From each material Beyer and Sizemore created a computer, providing a point of familiarity to an alternative reality. [ Continue reading ]
Last year the Paris running shop Distance published their first book called ITEN by photographer and artistic director Thibaut Grevet, with the aim to produce a singular vision of some of the world’s most emblematic places related to running and its culture. Earlier this year they published their second book, now in collaboration with photographer Wendy Huynh. A beautiful hardcover with 170 pages filled with images shot on Reunion Island during the incredible Grand Raid or Diagonale des fous. We asked Yoann Wenger from Distance for a little Q&A with Wendy on how the book came about. [ Continue reading ]
Last year we met with Tim Hooijmans from De Studio, a Dutch design studio focussing on ‘honest objects with more attention and consideration for the world around us.’ Designing products that have nothing to hide, completely stripped down, relentlessly honest, to the core of what that product should be. In a believe that things can be simple, undecorated, raw and even imperfect they created their first product, the Task Light. [ Continue reading ]