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London / Pub

There are very few better places to be on a summer's day than the massive beer garden at People’s Park Tavern on Victoria Park

Tokyo / Place

My friend, Yamada’s house. He is an editor for some big magazine company and he has so many mangas and also has a wii and an xbox360, which is a total paradise for me.

Bangkok / Cafe

A charming old-world café, On Lok Yun has been opened to coffee lovers for over 80 years. My favorite menu is steamed bread with custard. It’s not too sweet and the bread is very soft like cotton. They also have Thai-style American breakfast, soft drinks, and toasts with various toppings. My mom is a big fan of this café. Once you try this place, you will forget about those brand coffee shops for sure.

Hong Kong / Cafe

A 'cha chan teng' is Hong Kong's answer to the UK greasy spoon cafe, there are regional equivalents across China but what makes a cha chan teng unique is it's product. Toasted white bread rolls with condensed milk, deep fried chicken wings, pork chop sandwich…the list goes on. There aren't many of these types of establishments left in Hong Kong, but there seems to be a revival in this old-skool way of chilling out over a cup of 'silk stocking tea' (my favourite). I stumbled across the newly opened Lan Fong Yuen in Tsim Sha Tsui's Woodhouse mall, though it also has some small locations dating back to the 1950s.

Brussels / Restaurant

A hidden gem in a residential neighbourhood! Local and seasonal food, with a zero-waste philosophy. Only on reservation.

New York / Park

Rising up 130 feet above sea level, this new park occupies some of the highest ground in New York City and offers spectacular panoramic views of the Empire State Building to the northwest, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and New York Harbor to the west, and Jamaica Bay to the south.

Mannheim / Restaurant

If you like delicious and high quality food, beautiful arranged, Emma Wolf is the right place. I was there at my 33. and it was an amazing dinner with a perfect service. I also love their plates! They are handmade especially for Emma Wolf.

Amsterdam / Bakery

This place has, beside the excellent pastry, the best shrimp croquettes in town.

New York / Food Store

Great spot in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Modern, low-key spot for coffee, updated comfort food, draft beer, cocktails & an artsy patio.

New York / Restaurant

Roll N Roaster is a fast food place in Sheepshead Bay that has been open since 1971. Get the roast beef sandwich with cheese and a bottle of Moet champagne (not joking).

Berlin / Shop

It's a small bookshop to be stuck forever. Here you can find the most beautiful collection of art/photography/architecture/fashion/food books and magazines, not to count it's just a walk distance to diverse galleries around the neighborhood.

New York / Spa

This place has one of the hottest rooms I've ever been in. The combination of barely being able to breathe from the heat to immediately jumping into a freezing murky pool is addictive. There's also a great roof patio for a change of scenery. A good old school New York spot.

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Bogotá / Designer

Designer - Jewelry designer from Colombia

Copenhagen / Art Director

Founded in 2015 Girls on Their Way Home (GOTWH) is a studio for art direction & design based in Copenhagen run by art director Kevin Pfaff. Kevins main focus is on art direction, set design and production of photo shoots for fashion brands and magazines as well as brand identity, editorial and graphic design within the field of fashion and culture. Other work has included exhibition and textile design. Recent clients have included brands and magazines like: Maria Black Jewellery, Lehho, Å-Journal and Kinfolk Magazine, just to name a few. Reference comes from a submersion of multiple cultures, which enables a refined perspective when considering vital aesthetic choices. GOTWH are able to maintain relationships with international clients, and are currently consulting with brands in Japan, Denmark, and the UK.

Vienna / Visual Artist

Artist, curator and art enthusiast – born in Ukraine, studied in Czech Republic, Scotland and Iceland and currently finds her creative home in Vienna. Exhibited, among other, in the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, WIELS contemporary art centre, KARLIN STUDIOS - FUTURA, National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz and Meetfactory Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague. Has a soft spot for sculpture, puns, houseplants, oversized jewellery and filling out questionnaires.

New York / Creative Director

Laura Aviva is a Creative Director, and runs the product design studio L'Aviva Home. Originally from Los Angeles, she now splits her time between NYC and Mexico City.

Amsterdam / Artist

Charlotte Rohde is a (type-)designer and artist, currently based in Amsterdam. Her practice is rooted in her research on how type as an extension of the body can function to shape feminist discourses within our society. Her work reaches from designing posters, books and her own typefaces to ceramic sculptures and spacial installations. She also writes poetry and essays, bakes bread, teaches workshops and hosts various events.

Berlin / Designer

Hayo Gebauer is an industrial designer whose works reflect on the mundane object. A quirky fascination for order or subtle references to known archetypes are among the shape defining details. He lives in Berlin and works on self-initiated and commissioned projects.

New York / Photographer

Justin James King is an artist/photographer living in New York City whose work has been shown internationally. He is currently working on a project that expands on his interest in landscape and memory, taking inspiration from the remnants of a devastating hurricane that changed the course of a river in rural Vermont. When he's not working in his studio or traveling to shoot locations he can often be found at one of these fine places.

Moscow / Animator

Arina Shabanova is a russian artist currently based in Moscow. Her interest ranges from illustration to moving image.

Rotterdam / Film Director

Filmmaker, fascinated by social expectations and discomfort, errant characters, strange houses and hidden islands.

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.

London / Graphic Designer

I am an artist and graphic designer. After working for over ten years for institutions in the culture and art sector such as the Barbican Centre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts and then the leading arts publisher Phaidon, I set up my design and art studio in 2015. I split my time between design commissions and producing my own artists books.

Los Angeles / Animator

Olivia is a New Yorker living in Los Angeles, where she works as an illustrator/animator. She has a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and is a connoisseur of coffee.

San Francisco / Artist

Lettering Artist and Author

Yerevan / Writer

Mane Tatulyan (July 8, 1993) is a writer and MA in Applied Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Throughout her life, design meant a way of ordering the world, and writing, of understanding it. She is the author of the book The Radical Singularity: Essay on Singular Phenomena and a professor of philosophy at various institutes in Latin America. Today she intends to rethink Humanism by proposing a new reading of the modern tradition, under a fundamental premise: that the future does not design humans, but that we design a more humane future.

Berlin / Creative Director

Director

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