March 2017 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Product Designer Luca Nichetto describes his move to Scandinavia by way of Venice

With a highly unique position between both the Scandinavian and Italian design scenes, Luca has already earned widespread international recognition...

Amsterdam Design

Textile development, technological innovation and musical intervention with Dutch designer Borre Akkersdijk

From a vibration-integrated pillow created to help dementia patients communicate to a music-playing, Wi-Fi and GPS tracker-incorporated onesie for SXSW,...

Art Community

Bill Powers’ Half Gallery lets us into a world of fervent unseen works from the late poet and artist, Rene Ricard

He acted in several of Andy Warhol’s films including Chelsea Girls and Kitchen, lived in the infamous Chelsea Hotel and,...

Travel

The American Southwest Road Trip Pt. 2: Falling for Twentynine Palms and meditating in the middle of the Mojave Desert

No such luck finding anything resembling a campsite, let alone any people or moving cars. It was a ghost town....

Community

Living Modern, a new book and exhibition, takes a fresh look at Georgia O’Keeffe

In addition to her paintings, Living Modern presents O’Keefe’s own immense material and personal archive, spanning over six decades. From...

Design

For the Love of Magazines: Jeremy Leslie reviews SPIN/Adventures in Typography

We’re used to reading design journalism in the form of interviews, profiles and reviews along with news and opinion. Which...

Photo Essays

Close-up from a great distance: NASA images of the surface of Mars

At the click of a button, we can browse satellite images of the surface of faraway planets or look at...

Cologne Art

Daniel Hug, director of Art Cologne, on the Cologne art scene and the Germans' passion for collecting

Daniel Hug is restless. Homeless. He’d be the first to suggest that of himself. The American with Swiss roots has...

Travel

The American Southwest Road Trip Pt. 1: Red Rock Country, desert campsites, and saguaros for days

After much discussion about how to make our dreams reality, we finally booked our flights and camper van rental in...

Community

The latest issue of Period. zine celebrates the diversity of relationships between women

Although Lena was nervous about shooting someone so fresh, Lovisa was a natural. The pair clicked immediately. When, years later,...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #117: Krystal Klear

Producer and DJ Dec Lennon, aka Krystal Klear, captures this timelessness and punches it up with the contemporary club in...

Munich Community

Meet the FF Contributors: Conny Mirbach

Tagging along on skate tours with friends, Conny began documenting the stories of those around him. Today, he still prefers...

New York City Design

A bifocal perspective on creativity with New York design studio Visibility

In their first year at Rhode Island School of Design, Joseph Guerra and Sina Sohrab had a serendipitous meeting at...

Hamburg Art

Drawing words: Hamburg illustrator Anna Eisenhauer on hand-lettering and hip-hop

“Animals are great if you work alone a lot,” says Anna while petting Barnie, her grey rabbit who sits twitching...

Moscow Design

Encountering the other mind: How AI will shift our design process, and in turn, our cities

As a professor at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow and a California native, Benjamin is used...

Link List

Link List #66: Make your own feminist zine, explore some intersectional fashion and add Rebecca Solnit’s new book to your reading list

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

TTTISM, Sang Bleu's latest publication puts international tattoo art into print

Art