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Keegan Fong: Quit marketing for a noodle shop

Caroline Sarah Henne — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:48:48 +0000

Starting out as a noodle cart and family passion project, the culinary endeavor soon developed into the renowned restaurant it is today — a noodle shop serving Keegan’s mother’s own recipes and beloved meeting point among LA’s noodle aficionados as well as Keegan’s own community. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Woon

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Louis Vuitton – A global employer branding campaign and extended work culture documentary

Lucy Pullicino — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:29:28 +0000

Showcasing a personal side of the people that make up Louis Vuitton Use of Friends of Friends photography and video content across Louis Vuitton’s careers website

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Juliana Rudell Di Simone’s metaverse

Emma Hammar — Mon, 30 May 2022 06:28:34 +0000

With her co-founder, Lana Hopkins, based in Sydney, and the company’s team spread across the world, Juliana works mostly from her luminous home in Los Angeles. Her day-to-day life is very routined—and she likes it that way. “It makes me feel a bit more in control over my crazy schedule and the only way I’ve

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Amanda Gunawan: Cultivating sustainable workspaces

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:07:00 +0000

For many, the onset of the pandemic has coincided with working from home at a scale unlike before. Working, but also resting, coping, and caring for ourselves and others within the same four walls, has given birth to new ways of delineating spaces and adjusting environments to fit people’s needs while maintaining some semblance of

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Leigh Patterson & Michael A. Muller

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

It’s endearing watching Leigh Patterson and Michael A. Muller evade the question: what do you do? The insistent distillation regarding how they spend their time bores them, and their ennui from over-describing their work is clear. It’s easy to understand why. There’s an ineffability to their professional interests, and their projects resist easy classification. Leigh

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Ana Corrigan on clay, cooking, and staying inspired

Jenna Duffy — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Analuisa Corrigan is an artist working between Los Angeles and New York. Her portfolio includes different mediums—such as clay, paint, and printed matter—and explores themes of material fragility and integrity, as well as the interlacing of process and time. To learn more about her work visit her on Instagram. Analuisa Corrigan’s work was brought to us

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How Noel Hennessy and Thomas Renaud are shaping a new future for handmade ceramics

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:36:36 +0000

It’s supposed to rain—pour, actually—the day Noel Hennessy and Thomas Renaud give us a tour of their Northeast Los Angeles ceramics studio, LGS, where they meticulously shape and refine their studded, intricately carved clay vessels. But the sun is breaking through when we meet them in Frogtown, a strip of Craftsman bungalows and sprawling warehouses

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Musician Sudan Archives pushes past personal, creative, and sexual limits

Aimee Shirley — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:20:08 +0000

It’s half-past eleven in the morning and Brittney Parks asks me for a glass of wine to get her into the right frame of mind. Would she like anything to eat, I ask? “Currywurst!” she exclaims. “Isn’t that a thing here [in Berlin]?” The smell of incense permeates the room; behind us she has neatly

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Upending cultural norms with menswear label Goodfight

root — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:21:18 +0000

Upending cultural norms with menswear label Goodfight During the twelve years he’s spent working in fashion, Caleb Lin has made various attempts to escape the industry. The most notable was when he went to work as an assistant to Creative Director Drew Fitzgerald, who, among his work with various companies and entertainment clients, is one

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In the Laurel Canyon with Iranian-born, Los Angeles-based stylist Maryam Malakpour

root — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Malakpour, who is a fashion stylist and creative director, says the car is perfect for Sunday drives around Mulholland’s winding curves. It’s nearly 50 years old but roars obediently to her every maneuver, of which there are many on these treacherous detour paths. The car is a perfect aesthetic reflection of Malakpour’s attention to detail

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