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Beijing / Cafe

ICI or 33 Coffee is what you will find yourself at this address. Backed by ICI, a cultural organization and a team of architects, it is a multi-functional space offering authentic speciality coffee drinks, pastries as well as event experiences, such as art exhibitions, talks and workshops. Located right in the middle of downtown Beijing, close to my childhood neighborhood, it has become one of my favorite meet-up points in town. I enjoy the cozy and welcoming atmosphere, a breathing space away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the minimal design details and their interesting space making of the exhibition design.

Antwerp / Restaurant

Busy, but delicious Vietnamese restaurant. Would recommend the Bún with duck.

New York / Art Centre

Dia:Beacon is a short train ride from the city in a former Nabisco box printing factory. This art foundation has 240,000 square feet of art from the 1960s to the present. Dia features the work of Sol LeWitt, Imi Knoebel, Andy Warhol, Dan Flavin, Agnes Martin, On Kawara, Bruce Nauman, and many others. I love going during the summer to enjoy the gardens surronding the building.

London / Street Art

When I first took up photography I knew it was something I wanted to do but was unsure of what I wanted to take photos off. I started out by mainly photographing London's graffiti and street art. Graffiti isn’t tolerated in London as much as in other cities (such as Berlin or Lisbon) but it has a long history in the capital and if you know where to look there's a lot of it around. Some of the best street artists and graffiti writers in the world either live in or travel to London to use it as a canvas. It's not something I photograph so much anymore but I still admire those who do it. The risks involved and their dedication are truly remarkable. I always wish I had the balls and the talent to try it myself.

New York / Shop

Eye-Candy per excellence!

Tokyo / Place

I have a picnic with friends at every early summer. Our university has a good garden. There is a good spot for picnic. The class of my university start at night. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and finally go for a class.

Copenhagen / Creative Space

At Studio Louise Breyen You will find unique handmade graphic prints, books and poetry made by the artist. The artist, studio & showroom is very inspiring and unique.

London / Museum

Contemporary art gallery always showcasing interesting artists. Area is great and building is top

Barcelona / Bar

This nearly 200-year-old bar— reputedly the oldest in Barcelona, is an absynthe bar. Was one of the locations from Vicky Christina Barcelona's film. The Marsella is one of those places that Hemingway supposedly loved to frequent (Hemingway being to bars in Spain what George Washington is to inns in New England).

Queenstown / Hotel

Great place to stay in Queenstown also probably has the best restaurant in town.

San Francisco / Restaurant

In the Mission, now as terminally hip as it was formally poor, the St Francis is a greasy good time since 1918. Stuck beautifully in the 50's both aesthetically and menu wise it's Americana in a bun. Dig in.

Paris / Restaurant

Since 1946, this bakery and traiteur has been offering Jewish and eastern European specialties, from cheesecake and strudel to pastrami. One item you can’t miss is their signature Super Sandwich, the “Big-Pletzel,”. You have your choice of pastrami or turkey, which gets layered with eggplant caviar, red pepper caviar, cucumbers, pickles and fresh tomato slices, all on one of their soft homemade onion and poppy seed rolls...BIM

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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.

Barcelona / Film Director

César Pesquera makes films, directs music videos and commercials, creates installations, designs live visuals and writes. His work combines the grammar of cinema with a taste for conceptualization and visual experimentation. He likes to think about images, spaces, technology, perception, identity and time. At the moment he is working in a short film and writing a feature film. Sometimes he makes music as Portabot.

New York / Film Director

Shane is a multi faceted director and visual artist from Dublin, Ireland. His work spans a broad range of mediums such as animation, CGI, sculpture, and live action.

Madrid / Fashion Designer

I dream therefore I am

Los Angeles / Architect

Eleonora Orlandi is passionate about feeling the beauty of spaces. She is interested in inspiring and stimulating people to deeply resonate inside dimentions/atmospheres/ambiences/places. Architecture creates spaces in which we live our lives, often without even being conscious of it and she wants spaces to affect and move people. Born in Milano, in Italy, Eleonora Orlandi is a designer architect currently based in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from Polytechnic of Milano and received her Master degree in Architecture from the M.Arch II program at SCI-Arc, her master thesis won the SCI-Arc Thesis Award . She has international study experiences in liberal arts at Stanford Univeristy in California, Brown University in Rhode Island and at Central Saint Martins in London, furthermore she was selected for the exchange program at UMPRUM in Prague. Her work has been exhibited in Hauser & Wirth, Milano Design Week, and Venice Biennale. Her working experience crosses over architecture, stage design and event design. Eleonora is currently working for Greg Lynn as a Junior Architect at Greg Lynn Form office in Los Angeles, California.

Copenhagen / Photographer

Copenhagen based interior, lifestyle and travel photographer

Antwerp / Graphic Designer

Pieter Boels is a graphic artist looking for meaning in the shapes of language and the language of shapes. His work is an amalgam of graphic design, illustrative hand lettering and calligraphy, with a strong aesthetic sensibility. Working with both analog and digital tools, he's always striving to create something that resonates with people, and to make them do a double take. Since 2012 Pieter runs a one-man studio in Antwerp, Belgium. The projects he engages in range from large and commercial to tiny and artistic (or the other way round) for local and international collaborators, and himself. Together with his partner, Pieter curates a small space for art & design called Rosewood.

Berlin / Illustrator

Illustrator from Berlin

Sedro-Woolley / Photographer

Artist living and working in the Skagit Valley, WA, USA

London / Designer

Professional Colouring In

London / Creative Director

Swiss graphic designer, founder and creative director of London/Zürich based studio BOB.

Orange / Artist

Sticking paper onto paper and some how paying the bills. Born in South Africa, breed in Cyprus, educated in Greece and the U.K, I've now found myself in Orange, CA, USA. I've exhibited work internationally and have been commissioned by Clinique, Miu Miu, Kate Spade, Mens Health Magazine, Kodak, Ace Hotel, and Chanel among others.

New York / Artist

New Yorker Cartoonist, graphic novelist

Paris / Writer

Parisian journalist

New York / Designer

Interior designer in Brooklyn, NY

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