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Paris / Bookstore

A wonderful and spacious bookshop in Le Marais. I love to spend hours looking at beautiful books.

Lucerne / Cafe

Coffee

Serves two of my favourite things in awesome amounts of excess. Platters of fried chicken (the best one is coated in chilli sauce) accompanied with barrels of house beer.

San Jose / Shop

O’Henry’s is about half a mile from where I grew up. It’s located right across from what used to be a huge IBM plant (a space now occupied by a huge Hitachi plant and a half-assed strip mall). Everbody I grew up with would agree this is the best donut shop around. O’Henry’s has the best glazed donuts around, which taste blissful if you get them early in the morning (6am-7am).

The Hague / Gallery

For indpendent art spaces and young galleries you have to go to the area around the Boekhorststraat. For more details go here.

Amsterdam / Transport

    Almost every underground station in Amsterdam has a fascinating story behind it. My favourite one is metro station ‘Weesperplein,’ because it has a hidden station underneath the actual station that was meant for the 'Singellijn.' However, that line was never build and the second station remained useless. Besides that the hidden station was also equipped to serve as a shelter during the cold war. The large doors that were meant to hermetically close the building are still visible at both ends of the platform. Other small details, like the panels in the ceiling than can be used as tables when turned around, are also silent references to the building’s former use.  

Berlin / Place

25 years ago my father used to work here. I know they have a garden on top of the roof. It looks like a big spaceship, I love the futuristic design it has so many little details, I never get tired looking at it.

Aurillac / Art Centre

This place is dedicated to art and creation and harbors studios for illustration, clothes, terracotta, potery, leather... Every room has its own beauty and from time to time you can meet the artists and see how they work. The theater company Béliâshe is also present in this old high school and proposes classes, workshops, exhibitions and an interesting program of shows.

New York / Restaurant

I have been getting burgers here since I first moved to NYC. I think it is 1000 years old or something like that. Only two types of burgers, with or without bacon. I like easy decisions and this place is full of them. There is usually a line to be seated, but it always seems to go fast with $2.50 mugs of McSorley's. It's also at this strange vortex in the west village where 4th street and 12th street cross. Maybe that's why the line never takes too long and everything is so cheap.

Miami / Park

If you're an artist interested in texture and detail this place is a goldmine. My favorite thing about Miami might very well be all of the plants that grow here and Fairchild showcases them in the best possible way.

Baltimore / Club

Mobtown Ballroom is a lindy hop club in Pigtown, Baltimore. They host swing nights every Friday, often with live bands (though this has been somewhat diminished thanks to the pandemic). It was once a grand and solemn old cathedral; now it's host to drinking, dancing, jazz, and even, yes, circus arts. In short, the "holy spirit" of yesteryear has given way to the frenetic energy of lindy-hop, which has a holy spirit of its own.

Barcelona / Area

Poblenou in the district Sant Marti, it means "new village" in Catalan. This area of Barcelona was mostly factories, today it is a modern residential area which is home to the @22 Barcelona hi-tech business district. Is one of the most overlooked areas in they city, and in my opinion has many great things to offer.. run-down in parts, but very open with tons of light and close to the beach, Poblenou is perfect for anyone who wants to live a slightly more quite lifestyle but also have complete and easy access to the craziness of the city centre.

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Montreal / Illustrator

Montreal-based illustrator.

Antwerp / Creative Director

Founder and creative director at Mr. Henry

London / Illustrator

London-based illustrator

Seoul / Graphic Designer

Graphic designer

Eindhoven / Photographer

Marinos was born (1984) and raised on the island of Crete. He studied Contemporary Photography & Visual Arts at "Stereosis" School of Photography. Since 2014, he is a member of the artistic collective “Depression Era” that inhabits the urban and social landscape of the economic crisis in his home country. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and international festivals, including Mois De La Photo (Paris), Jeju Biennale (South Korea), Unseen (Amsterdam), Fotofilmic (L.A & Vancouver), Athens Photo Festival, Biennale of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, and several galleries in Europe, and the USA. Part of his artwork belongs to international private and archival collections. In 2017, it was published his first (sold-out) photobook, "Paradise Inn", by Void.

Hanover / Art Director

Yevgeniy Anfalov was born in Kiew, Ukraine. He moved in 2003 to Germany, where he studied Visual Communication at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts and graduated in 2012. In 2015–17 he has been studying Art Direction in Master programm at ÉCAL, Lausanne with the major in type design, supervised by François Rappo and Kai Bernau. His graduation book project on history of electronic music "ROTARY. Geschichte des Studios für elektronische Musik WDR Köln 1951–81" has obtained an award of excellence. Since 2010 he is running his own design practice. Alongside with making identity systems, bespoke typefaces and online projects, Yevgeniy is working primarily in the field of editorial design. The variety span includes photobooks, newspapers, as well as readers, archive monographs and books on design history. Rooted in research and graphic design traditions, he approaches the work with the means of typography, photography, information design and custom content creation. He also offers custom type design and related services.

Montreal / Photographer

Born in 1988 in Canada from french descent, Samuel Pasquier is a commercial and editorial photographer working in Montreal and New-York city.

Raleigh / Designer

I'm a designer and filmmaker from the coast of North Carolina, currently residing in Raleigh, NC. I have a background visual design and I love bringing abstract concepts to life through video.

Ho Chi Minh City / Creative Director

Vũ Hoàng Anh is a Vietnamese designer working across disciplines from product design to creative direction. He received his BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University where he was trained as a sculptor. Such academic background allows Anh to apply his craftsmanship and earn valuable experience from hands-on collaborations with independent artists and local craftsmen. In 2017, he founded LINEA, his own studio practice in Hồ Chí Minh City and dedicated fully to his creative direction and design projects.

Seoul / Animator

I am an animator/digital artist living in Seoul, Korea.

London / Artist

Film director & Artist based in London and Rome

Vienna / Photographer

Photographer, Vienna, Austria

Bristol / Photographer

Matthew Broadhead is a British photographer based in Southwest England. In July 2016, he graduated from the BA (Hons) Photography program at the University of Brighton and has since gained sustained recognition for his ongoing body of work A Space for Humans: The Moon on Earth (formerly titled Heimr). A Space for Humans was featured in the July 2016 edition of The British Journal of Photography, December 2017 issue of Wallpaper*, The Exposed Issue 2 and Fisheye Vol. 1. He has also been selected as a winner for awards from Magnum, Photoworks, and Organ Vida. Broadhead’s practice entails an engagement with photography as a critical medium and explores the conjunctions between different subjects; notably geology, anthropology, history, and mythology. His research in these areas is meant to change how he interacts with subjects in different contexts in addition to his recording methodology. Operating at the intersection between documentary and conceptual art, he creates fictional bodies of work based on factual source material.

London / Photographer

Still life Photographer

Paris / Illustrator

Illustrator based in Paris

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