December 2016 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

2016—A Year in Review

We know—it can be a lot to digest. At FvF we’ve been through quite a bit within the past year...

Düsseldorf Architecture

How architect Christoph Ingenhoven improved the standards for sustainable building

In the large room with high ceilings, workers sit spread along the long desk. A large window front offers a...

The year through the lens of our favorite photographers

She wrote: “Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” This year...

The launch of ТЕПЛИЧНOE РАСТЕНИЕ (hothouse plant) by Fette Sans

The exhibition centers around folding screens designed in mimicry of the walls of local Russian kiosks. These stalls—where people buy...

Where the Wind Blew: Documenting the power of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable suffering

To millennials, the Cold War belongs to the annals of history. The daily fear of armageddon caused by nuclear weapons...

Berlin

Christmas 2016 in Berlin with the FvF team

We started the day off with a brunch in the FvF Apartment whipped up by the good people from The...

Photography

Grindr publishes HOME, its first ever book with Berlin photographer Matt Lambert

HOME showcases the work of Berlin-based photographer and filmmaker Matt Lambert. Traveling through gay communities around the globe, he cast...

New York City

3D printing design brand OTHR signals the coming of the third industrial revolution

But it’s our inability to keep up with the dizzying pace of technological development that’s holding us back. Drastic changes...

Link List #60: How to save Santa, '00s WordArt, and carol time with David Bowie

Thanks for reading! We hope our links inspire you and give you a small window into what the FvF office...

Berlin Food

Tasting notes with Berlin’s specialty coffee roastery Five Elephant

Five Elephant first opened its doors in 2010: they quickly became known in Berlin’s third wave coffee scene as a...

Music

FvF Mixtape #114: Infinite Rework

For those unfamiliar with the term, “library music” is music created for use in films and commercials. In a time...

Berlin

Constructing a future collectively: How Cucula helps refugees establish a new life in Berlin

Back then, asylum seekers were camped out at Oranienplatz protesting their treatment by the EU. A year later, five of...

Sydney

Bezerke—A documentary of Russell Bierke tackling some of the world’s biggest waves

Waves topped out at 15 feet, absolutely demolishing competitors and washing them out to the rocky shore. Those watching the...

Alien Matter: Technology and culture merge in Berlin-based arts festival, transmediale

The program begins with ever elusive, a festival running from February 2nd to 5th, that encompasses a conference, screening program,...

London Fashion

Hostem’s founder James Brown on creating more than a concept store in East London

A shorthand for cool, with no consideration for what those words—‘concept’, even ‘store’—really mean. Over the course of a conversation...

How our creative conference, The Sooner Now, looks at the future of living in cities

These two sentences would come to define the day as it unfolded. They nestled in both the fore and backgrounds...

Photography

Seeing Georgia through the eyes of the country’s top photographers

Eight editions later it has become not only the most important photo festival in the region but one of the...

Tuscany Food

FvF Cooks in Tuscany with Margot Protzel at Villa Lena

Stepping outside the pistachio-green tiled kitchen to catch a glimpse is the current chef-in-residence of the Tuscan retreat, Margot Protzel....

Ponza Photography

Photographer Max D’Orsogna takes us to an island in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea

The mythology of Ponza was born in the shallows of Grotto della Maga, the postulate home of Circe, the evil...

London Music

Brick Magazine is flipping the script on hip-hop culture

“I wanted to make something I would buy myself,” says Hayley as we flip through a past issue of Brick...