Design agency thonik has reinvented itself. The development of a studio on the Wibautstraat in Amsterdam marks thonik’s first foray into three-dimensional design. The building is an eye catcher, manifesto, […]

Guillaume Désanges on art and racism in France

Guillaume Désanges is an independent curator and notably in charge of La Verrière, the exhibition space for contemporary art attached to Fondation d'entreprise Hermès in Brussels.

Guillaume has a reputation for putting on complex and difficult exhibitions packed with meaning and signification. In 2019 he started a series of cycles at the exhibition space, each one […]

VIRGIL ABLOH – Pinking Virgil: The B-side

Crass and commercial or millenial and revolutionizing?

Some call him crass and commercial, others see him more as the millennial Karl Lagerfeld, but whatever your viewpoint, Virgil Abloh has managed to revolutionize streetwear borrowing tactics and an […]

Research & Realities

Printing Microalgae

How sustainable is the colour dye in your top? Where did it come from and how long will its hue last in the wash before inevitably fading? We pick out colours for their shades and aesthetics, but it seems rare that we choose colours based on their pigment origins.

TotoMoxtle

Corn is one of the top three most-grown plants in the world, however its main purpose is not to supply food for people but to be used to make biofuels, […]

This is Copper

There is a problem within sustainable fuel industries whereby the main two factors that tend to effect change within them is either economic incentive or public perception. The difficulty is […]

imm Cologne takes the lead with a new model

Bold Moves, Archive Revivals and Edgy Undertones

KLEUREYCK. Van Eyck’s colours in design

Nature: Technology’s Neverland

Nature: Technology’s Neverland

The relationship between nature and technology has always been polarized to the max – it’s an either or scenario that thinkers from both camps have tried to fuse.

Countryside, The Future – Rem Koolhaas’ Rural Sublime

"Omissions and simplification help us to understand..."

Christien Meindertsma, Redesigning Reality

Christien Meindertsma defies all trends and at a time when design becomes more and more institutionalized she stays obstinately free and single, letting her instincts and personal experiences inform and guide her positions.

Cultural Calendar

Klaas Rommelaere at The Texture museum in Kortrijk

Klaas Rommelaere presents his larger-than-life embroidered puppets in Texture in Kortrijk The Texture museum in Kortrijk is collaborating with Be-Part, Platform for contemporary art in organising a solo exhibition this […]

Faye Toogood, Assemblage 6: Unlearning

Friedman Benda, New York

Risquons-Tout at Wiels

Risquons-Tout is an ambitious, thematic exhibition that explores the potential of risk, transgression and unpredictability. It examines how art challenges the homogenisation of thought in the now infamous echo chambers of […]

Paolo Gonzato – Baracche

Camp Design Gallery Milan Camp Design Gallery Milan shows new pieces by Paolo Gonzato from the series Baracche.When in 2016 Paolo Gonzato designed the first series of Baracche as part of […]

Raupenimmersattism – SAVVY Contemporary Berlin

Berlin non-profit art space SAVVY Contemporary has moved to a new location at Reinickendorfer Straße 17 in Berlin-Wedding. The re-opening is marked by the exhibition “Raupenimmersattism. The Affluent Society as Consumed Society or […]

The Misused Ironmongery X London Design Festival

Taiwanese industrial designer Liang-Jung Chen first started paying a great amount of attention to hardware when she was living in the countryside of Taiwan. ‘It all started with designers’ geeky […]

Long Reads

Spatial Graphic Design

The new Studio Thonik