citylikeyou

London / Park

My favourite park in town. They have a small Japanese garden and areas marked off for joggers. Well organised space.

Tokyo / Shop

Where do you think about this inkfish' home? He live in skyscraper building. That name is "Sunshine City". There are aquarium, observation deck, amusement park, theater, hotel, tailor's shop, restaurant, mansions…etc. It is like a small city! Sunshine City in Ikebukuro. My mother was born there and I grew up there, too. Ikebukuro is a chaotic city. It's got everything from leading-edge department store to bar in the poor quarter of the town. I love this city that have many face.

Paris / Restaurant

Great Vietnamese labyrinthine restaurant, with huge, filling plates for under €10. My girlfriend has been eating here since she was in the womb.

Stockholm / Bookstore

I love books and Konst-ig is the best art bookstore in Stockholm. They also seel my books.

Lancaster / Shop

Local bike parts/repair shop. Tom, the owner, is always helpful and willing to share his expertise.

Barcelona / Creative Space

A small printshop specialized in hot metal printing. WRITE A MAIL BEFORE GOING THERE!

Lisbon / Architecture

A medical research center in Lisbon by Indian architects Charles Correa Associates has a curved stone form with circular cut-aways.

Florence / Museum

The Museum takes its name from its creator, one of the most famous Italian antiquarian of the late nineteenth century, who after years of intense commercial activity, decided to transform his collection into a museum and donate it to the City of Florence in 1922. Stefano Bardini was a famous art dealer who collected objects of different periods and of high quality. Bardini contributed to spreading the myth of the Italian Renaissance throughout the world and showed great interest in all forms of art, which is one of the reasons to visit the collections: over 2000 pieces including sculptures, paintings, furniture pieces, ceramic pieces, tapestries and objects from ancient art to the eighteenth century. It's also possible to admire some fragments of the old centre of Florence, salvaged before destruction. Inside the museum, everything is on display as it was at the time when Stefano Bardini worked as an antique dealer. The pieces are not grouped by historical period, but are put on display according to the taste of Bardini, so as to better accentuate the beauty of the pieces. Even the building itself is remarkable for its use of doors, windows and the fact that many of the room are painted in a bright electric blue. It doesn't usually appear in the guides (so it's not crowded) and you'll never find it on the MUST VISIT museum list, but it's worth a visit. The visit (depending on whether you are running or deciding to take it easy) takes approximately between 1h and 2:30.

Valencia / Restaurant

Best place to eat tapas and "bocadillos" since 1963.

New York / Shop

Be warned: you’ll want to buy everything in this beautiful, minimalist store.

Valletta / Art

One of Malta's most stunning locations in the middle of Valletta. This place was built in 1571 and was at that point the seat for the Grand Master of the Knights of St John. It's now partly the office of the president of Malta but the first floor are open to the public and the space is absolutely amazing.

London / Cafe

Teeny, French cafe with amazing pastries, great coffee and incredible croque-monsieur. Long table in the front and small garden in the back or take away and head to Highbury Fields, which is only a couple of minutes away.

View All

Los Angeles / Photographer

Elias Tahan is a photographer from Los Angeles. After leaving art school, he immediately launched his career as a full time photographer, drawing inspiration from film and pop culture. His celebrity, fashion, and documentary photography is featured in publications such as New York Post's Page Six, Flaunt, and Interview Magazine. Elias Tahan is currently living and working in LA, and continues to develop his eclectic artistic influences through photography.

Miami / Art Director

Mylinh Trieu Nguyen is a designer based in Miami, FL. Her work explores ideas of distribution, collaboration and curation through new and appropriated systems and frameworks. Her projects mediate the space between subjectivity and objectivity, while continually striving to recontextualize the familiar and mundane. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California she slowly made her way east, stopping in Minneapolis, MN as a design fellow at the Walker Art Center and most recently completing her MFA in Graphic Design at Yale University in New Haven, CT. She currently is the Art Director at The Wolfsonian-FIU, a museum of design and art in the heart of Miami Beach.

Paris / Painter

Clément Mancini is a French contemporary artist who lives and works in Paris. After his studies in graphic arts, he moved to Lyon for 6 years where he developed a work of murals paintings in which abstraction took more and more importance. Close to his graffiti roots and to the energy that emanates from the street, he seeks to reinterpret in his works this energy mixing balance in compo- sition and movement, as in the treatment of line and texture. Now working mainly in his studio, he loves to shake up his painting prac- tice.and techniques, he describes his work as constantly evolving.

London / Art Director

Digital Art Director working in London.

Montreal / Art Director

I'm Claire Pazot, a French-born Art Director. After a time in Paris and Berlin, I have settled down in Montreal, and this is where I live and work. I love pure and simple design. I am always eager for new projects, all different and unique. But fun stays my main goal in life :)

Stuttgart / Art Director

Art director, designer and sometimes-trying-hard-to-be-conceptual-artist who enjoys exploring all kinds of puzzling ideas, vibrant concepts and non-linear thoughts.

Munich / Illustrator

I am a clay illustrator. Like most of us, I started playing around with clay at a very young age. Unlike most of us, I continued my practice right through my childhood and into adulthood. Nowadays I view my lumps of clay with the same wide-eyed, open-ended imagination that I did as a child, but now I take it to a level of refinement and expression, achievable only through thousands of hours of practice and a true love for my art. And now I hardly ever eat the clay.

London / Publisher

Media Entrepreneur Constantin Bjerke is the Founder and CEO of Crane.tv a story-telling company, which in 2011 was named a "top ten European start-up to watch in 2011" by the Wall Street Journal. Crane.tv is re-inventing cultural publishing as the first online video magazine for contemporary culture, with content also syndicated to a wide array of sites including the Huffington Post, Wallpaper*, and the New York Times reaching an influential, world-wide audience.

London / Designer

Antidisciplinary artist and designer working from the bowels of Somerset House.

Frankfurt / Architect

Born in Russia (Donskoje) `83, moved to Germany `90. I was studying architecture at the University for Applied Science in Koblenz. After the diploma I went to Moscow to work as an architect for Sergei Tchoban. Back from Moscow I made my M.A. at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. One of my most emotional periods in my life because of the people and the discussion about architecture. At the moment I am working for Schneider+Schumacher architects in Frankfurt am Main. Currently I don`t have really a home town, I am spending time between many cities. For the moment I like this situation to be more independent.

Seoul / Designer

Design Studio based in Seoul, South Korea

London / Artist

Lynnie’s style is a distinctive one, where a bold bright colour palate is used to great effect in the playful charismatic characters she creates. The development of these characters is the driving force of her work; producing mysterious, seductive creatures and powerful femme fatales. Women are mostly the subject of her pieces which she brings to life using ink, paint and paint pens. By working spontaneously the personalities evolve naturally into striking and engaging images which both shock and amuse, but always stimulate the eye.

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>.

Sydney / Designer

Multidisciplinary designer from Sydney, Australia. Focusing on film, theatre, textiles and typography.

London / Photographer

Paul Phung is a photographer based in London and a recent graduate from Leeds College of Art, his work has been published in several U.K and international titles. He enjoys collaborating with different artists/designers and is currently working towards bringing out his second zine.

View All