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New York / Park

This park sits halfway between my apartment and my studio. I spend a a lot of time hear sketching and making phone calls. The trees are beautiful during spring and fall.

Neede / Restaurant

Near Neede - in Borculo- there is this former oil mill dating back from 1375. One of my favorite restaurants nearby.

Amsterdam / Place

I've always been inspired by old industrial buildings like factories, but unfortunately such buildings have become rather rare in the Netherlands. At the moment you can still find some of the remains of the old harbour of Amsterdam called the ‘NDSM werf’ on the other side of the river ‘IJ,’ but this area seems to be in transition as well. For the time being the NDSM werf is a creative place where a lot of activities are taking place. The best part for me is the 'Y-helling' to enjoy the (modest) skyline of Amsterdam and to write graffiti.  

New York / Museum

I can’t get enough of the dioramas, but my favorite parts of the AMNH are the Halls of Meteorites and Minerals. There are some beautiful specimens here, and best of all you can actually lay your hands on the 4.5-billion-year-old Cape York Meteorite.

Los Angeles / Shop

Beautiful shop with vintage and new gifts + clothing.

Amsterdam / Studio Spaces

A few years ago, the Volkskrant (one of the countries biggest newspaper) moved office to a new location. Their old headquarter now houses hundreds of artists and musician; along with dance studios, a bar/club with panorama over the city, a dreadlock 'doctor', a Russian cultural centre, a cyberpunk gallery and my photo studio on the 4th floor. It was a conscious choice by the founders to create a total melting pot. In the basement for example, 3 doors away from our music studio, you will find some cheerful weed smoking hiphop producers from the Bijlmer (the 'ghetto' of Amsterdam); an ex-yougoslavian hardcore drummer with a full analogue recording studio and a ballet school run by an obese woman in her 70's. Ok, it might seem artificial, but it really is quite magical!

New York / Other

Brooklyn tattoo shop specializing in American traditional style work. Everyone is super nice and cool.

Lancaster / Cemetery

Beautiful cemetery from the mid 1700s, good for reading/sketching in private. One of many that I visit. Some of the last places to find peace.

Baltimore / Bookstore

Normal's is a great records-and-books store just off of Greenmount Avenue on 31st street. They have an inspiring collection of used books, all very affordable. One gets the impression that each book was deliberately chosen, and personally read through by the storekeepers. The curation of books and records feels very intentional and meaningful. Formed in 1990 by a collective of nine people who wanted to work for themselves on a project that they cared about, Normal's is distinguished by its discernment.

New York / Botanical Garden

The Bronx Botanical Garden is a place my father and I have been going to since I was a child. Here's a photograph I took of him here. It has hundreds of species of trees and flowers. Sitting in the middle of the Bronx, it's most recognizable as a green oasis from the grays and concrete of city life.

Muscat / Beach

Around 1-1:30hr home trail to get to a beautiful secluded beach, hugged by mountains, with crystal clear water. Park your car by Al Saidiya Street, then follow the hiking trail that leads you to the hill. You’ll hike up an easy mountain up, and then descend to this enclosed beauty.

Amsterdam / Cinema

Cinecenter is special to me because I used to work here. It is a great place to see all of your favourite movies.

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New York / Visual Artist

Bosco Sodi is known for his richly textured, vividly colored large-scale paintings. Sodi has discovered an emotive power within the essential crudeness of the materials that he uses to execute his paintings. Focusing on material exploration, the creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work, Sodi seeks to transcend conceptual barriers. Sodi leaves many of his paintings untitled, with the intention of removing any predisposition or connection beyond the work’s immediate existence. The work itself becomes a memory and a relic symbolic of the artist’s conversation with the raw material that brought the painting into creation. Sodi’s influences range from l’art informel, looking to artists such as Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet, to master colorists such as Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and the bright hues of his native heritage.

Santa Maria da Feira / Graphic Designer

I am a graphic designer from Portugal. I live and work in Santa Maria da Feira, my hometown, wich is very near from Porto. I manage Studio Nuno Fontes, a multi-disciplinary design studio focused on creating visual identities for institutional clients.

Los Angeles / Designer

Senior Product Designer, based in Los Angeles, CA

New York / Designer

Francisco Lopez (born 1974 in Miami, Florida) is a Creative Director, Visual Artist and Filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He graduated from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2000. In 2004 Monica Brand and Francisco Lopez founded the multidisciplinary Creative studio “Mogollon” in New York City. Together they have created work for both art and commerce experimenting with virtually every media. Mogollon’s art films and work have been exhibited at PS1MoMA, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Diesel Art Gallery in Tokyo and The Drawing Center in New York.

Gothenburg / Art Director

Art director/graphic designer currently living in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Syracuse / Illustrator

I am an Illustrator, a Designer, an Educator and a Maker living in Upstate New York. My work is often inspired by my everyday life, nature, human living, and well-being. I love going on spontaneous adventures and visiting new places! Overall, a nice human. Nice to meet you!

Amsterdam / Photographer

My work can be described as a body of research in which different moments in time and space run together in a field that seems to embody a determination of time to present proof of it’s discrete, unique moments. I create stories that rise around the system of time and space. I’m fascinated by the systems that exist behind the direct surface of the visual world.

Leipzig / Artist

Hello.

Los Angeles / Photographer

Photographerrrrrrrr

Lisbon / Artist

LISBON BASED ARTIST. DECODING THE CONCEPTUAL AND THE PHYSICAL BODY. "My work is about how the physical body interprets the conceptual body. The invisible world creates the visible world. I want to change people’s thoughts about social issues as thoughts and universal energy are the same thing. They change the world."

Albufeira / Artist

Studio Vanessa Barragão is a design studio focusing on the artisanal techniques and wasted yarns from the industry to produce textiles and products for interiors. Growing up in the seaside, her connection to the ocean is the inspiration for her artworks. Vanessa Barragão’s work is characterized by her captivating environments of coral reefs, cleverly combining craft and recycled materials into unique and luxurious sculptural carpets and tapestries for floors and walls. Vanessa was born in Albufeira, in the south of Portugal. Her studio was founded in 2014 when she attended a Master degree at the Lisbon University in fashion and textiles design. There she developed her first wool yarn collection and tapestries through an ecological artisanal process. Currently, she is based in Porto, the Northern region of Portugal where the nation’s textile industry core is located, and divides her time between collaborating as a textile designer for an artisanal rugs factory and running her studio.

Chicago / Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer based in Chicago, Illinois. Currently Senior Designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Melbourne / Illustrator

Artist & illustrator from Melbourne

Strasbourg / Illustrator

Illustrator and comics artist. Born in South Korea and moved to France, I'm currently working in Strasbourg where I graduated in 2017 at Haute École des Arts du Rhin.

Seoul / Illustrator

Hello, I am an illustrator and a comic artist In Korea. I am an author of <Shape of Shame>, <Time of Everything>, <Toilet>, <Funeral burglars>, and <Stay the Same>.

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