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Leipzig / Cafe

Speciality coffee in Leipzig & yummie cake

Warner Robins / Bar

I think it was around last summer I started frequenting an open mic here. It was every Saturday for a long time. I met a ton of good musicians and great people here, so if you are in the area when they have an open mic you should check it out. Oh yeah, and they have coffee too.

Los Angeles / Restaurant

Guerilla started off as a good truck and grew into a brick and mortar. The sweet potato tacos are it!

New York / Park

I read that the design of Central Park's curving spaces was a Romantic counter to the geometry of Enlightenment-era gardens. I heard this design was influenced by landscape painting, where its foreground, middleground, and background constantly shift as you walk the paths. I find new pockets and features every time I'm there. One of my favorite spots is with the Central Park Dance Skaters, a group that roller skates in circles all day to vintage electro funk. These characters generously lend you the feeling of being in your own 1980's New York film.

Singapore / Place

Lovely street of new and old, leading into little india, where curry, gold and silk is good and cheap.

London / Restaurant

An all women's team restaurant serving delicious home-cooked Indian cuisine. Owned by the very charming and talented chef, Asma Khan.

New York / Shop

Coming Soon knows exactly what furniture and objects you need to make your apartment cooler than you are. The store’s (female) owners’ backgrounds in fine art and high design are clear, and they work directly with designers to bring in a carefully curated selection of pieces new and old.

Miami / Gallery

Being a big fan of Jim Drain before moving to Miami, I knew of this artist run alternative art space that he and Naomi Fisher currently operate together. They have amazing shows and host a myriad of lectures, readings and screenings throughout the year.

New York / Gallery

I discovered the Frick my first week in New York, during a heat wave in August. The galleries were surprisingly empty, with only the occasional visitor strolling through the rooms, gently creaking the floorboards. I stood for a while in front of the Bronzino, a portrait of a boy standing against a background of green drapery, and then sat in the courtyard for a long, cool hour.

San Francisco / Restaurant

Terrible service. OK brunch. Nice venue.

Barcelona / Restaurant

We'd recommend every pasta dish from this place. Besides, the fake-forest surrounding is amazing.

London / Restaurant

My favourite no-frills Malaysian restaurant and takeaway hidden away in a basement. Expect to queues for up to 30–40min, but well worth the wait.

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Amsterdam / Photographer

Elizar Veerman is a Moluccan-Dutch documentary and fashion photographer based in Amsterdam. His photographic practice is particularly concerned with the effects of Colonialism and migration. Focusing on boys and men with a history of displacement, he explores representations of masculinity and acts of (self-)reclamation.

London / Writer

Before moving to London, Fortuny worked in New York City, Milan, and Los Angeles as a writer and editor. She has contributed to magazines such as Flaunt, Dazed & Confused, Exit, Metal, and Vice. Fortuny is currently the Features Editor at Exit magazine. She loves design, languages, and studying art movements.

London / Animator

Film director based in Paris and London

New York / Art Director

Creative Director from Budapest working in New York.

Montevideo / Designer

Martín Azambuja is an independent graphic designer and illustrator.

London / Artist

Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee is an artist, researcher and writer. Her practice is guided by the iterations of slow violence and the dynamic between the ‘near’ and ‘elsewhere’. In attempting to disarm instruments of knowledge production, her practice shies away from reduction and completion. Steering away from essentialisms, she is interested in once-forgotten micro and muted narratives. By revisioning fractured traditions, she engages with visual and textual interventions to navigate the nuances of perception and retention. Lee also runs XING, a research platform centered on the poetics and politics of Southeast and East Asian art practices. Assuming form of a shapeshifter, it morphs between localities and temporalities; with(in)flux. A domain of not-yet possibilities, the platform attempts to dismantle matrices concerned with the region from non-dominant perspectives.

Stockholm / Artist

Artist based in Stockholm

London / Designer

Product & Furniture Designer

Birmingham / Art Director

Art Director

Auckland / Creative Director

James Goggin is a Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland)-based British and/or Australian graphic designer from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Arnhem, Chicago, and Providence. He runs a design practice named Practise together with partner Shan James, working on books, websites, exhibitions, typefaces, videos, textiles, posters, magazines, identity systems, signs, and symbols in Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North America. James is a Thesis Critic at Rhode Island School of Design, writes now and then, and lectures here and there.

London / Graphic Designer

Joseph Piper moved to London to study Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins in 2003. Based in the city, he is a creative with a personal interest in photography and commercial aspirations in branding and e-commerce. Joseph Piper has a soft spot for pugs, Fender guitars & Danish foxes.

New York / Visual Artist

Drawing on Everything.

Seoul / Photographer

June Korea, is a New York–based visual artist who uses photography as a bridge to invite viewers to his constructed fantasies. His aim is to visually translate his imagined narrative into the real world. His hope for his work is that it will serve as a catalyst that stimulates to leave questions of our solitary existence in human society.

London / Writer

Writer. Brand Consultant. Founder of Women Who.

Norwich / Graphic Designer

Founder + Director The Brand Identity

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