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Architect Gustav Düsing on Comfort, Sound & Imperfection

Caroline Sarah Henne — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:39:50 +0000

To step into the world of Gustav Düsing is to enter a space where architecture behaves more like music than masonry. Whether he is freezing fabric into a structural “tent” or designing award-winning university hubs, Gustav’s work is a study in “productive friction” — the delicate point where radical transparency meets the human need for

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Dance for non-dancers: a journal exploring the link between dance and everyday life

Maria Paris — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:18:53 +0000

Isabelle Bucklow and Hannah Woods met while studying History of Art in London. Their shared passion and fondness for performance quickly formed a strong creative relationship—they read each other’s essays, recommended books to each other, and attended exhibitions together. These exchanges nurtured their shared love of dance and writing, and ultimately led them to question

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Kianí del Valle: Healing wounds through dance

Emma Hammar — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:04:21 +0000

An integral aspect of Kianí’s arrival to dancing was her family’s Caribbean roots. “I was brought up in a country where everybody around me was dancing. My grandpa was dancing with literally everybody at the parties. My grandma was dancing and cooking.” While her mother was writing her doctoral thesis, Kianí was raised by her

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From the Arab Spring to Slow Factory, Céline Semaan on her advocacy journey and the pace of change-making

Emma Hammar — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0000

This story is part of Movement, a series of profiles, think pieces, and photo essays exploring creative projects that put motion and fluidity at the center. Céline, who has been living in a forest a little outside the city of New York since the COVID-19 pandemic, addresses life and the challenges facing the present with

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Intimacy and desire through the eyes of three mind-opening creatives

Ellen McBride — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:27:28 +0000

The inclination of creatives to probe these themes through their work spans generations, cultures, and disciplines. Greek god of sexual desire Eros enjoys a steadfast, prominent role in many artworks and mythological tales, usually as a roguish child or a handsome youth. Songs of love and longing have been a mainstay for composers and musicians since ancient

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A Pound of Pictures: Photographer Alec Soth’s exploration of self-doubt, the act of looking, and the richness of the world

Emma Hammar — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:24:35 +0000

Alec Soth is a Magnum photographer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for his long-term projects that capture the spirit of middle America. His breakthrough project, “Sleeping By the Mississippi”, is a collection of photographs of the people and places he encountered along a meandering road trip down the Mississippi River. Since its publication in 2004, Soth

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We asked five artists and designers how technology is reshaping the future of creativity

Maria Paris — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:09:07 +0000

Cindy Valdez Cindy Valdez is the co-founder of Migration of Matter, a Berlin-based studio that, by merging the ancient craft of ceramics with custom-designed 3D printers, creates organic yet evocative patterns that show the possible harmony between the plant world and machines. Cindy’s inspiration stems from childhood memories in Peru. Growing up in the “mud

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Friends of Friends Submission Guide

Elias Tinchon — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:09:50 +0000

Our Editorial Mission Inspiring change through creativity FF exists to celebrate and showcase the ideas of a global creative community that will inspire progressive change for a better future. We value individual experiences but always make sure to place them within a wider context and discourse so that they resonate with our global readership. Top

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DADDY magazine is reclaiming space for underrepresented voices in German media

Emma Hammar — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:25:06 +0000

In a mediascape that often feels homogeneous and conditioned by the logic of immediacy, (independent) printed magazines constitute a valuable space for slowing down and bringing attention to underrepresented topics and voices. Sensitive to these possibilities, journalist and content strategist Kemi Fatoba founded DADDY, a platform where people of color, queer people, and trans people

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From Italian indie bands to sacred rituals in India, Enrico Caputo captures the less observed

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:47:36 +0000

From producing music videos for Italian indie bands, to working as a commercial photographer, launching the book and platform Designers Against Coronavirus, and exploring themes of traveling and belonging in his personal portfolio, Enrico Caputo’s artistic path is far from linear. His diverse professional experiences have shaped him to become someone that admires and seeks

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