workshop - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Collaboration in the Cloud: How new online applications are revolutionizing our approach to design

The time of digital collaboration as a linear sequence of back and forth communication is coming to an end. Thankfully,...

Sydney Art

Geometric abstraction forms the basis of modern sculptor Dion Horstmans' labor-intensive work

The workplace of the New Zealand-born, Sydney-based sculptor is a large, high-ceilinged space in an industrial cul-de-sac of Sydney’s inner...

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...

The Jungle Beat: Creating electronic beats in the Malaysian Rainforest

Few would pick the rainforest as the first place to test this theory, but an opportunity to do just that,...

London Workplaces

Uncharted Territory: Peter Bellerby's hand-built globes

Today, his globes make appearances in Hollywood movies, BBC television shows, music videos and more. The artisan company now produces...

Kurzeme

Lord of His Own Manor: Aigars Bikše

With his trademark bald head, beard, and glasses, Bikše has been a recognizable figure on the Latvian art scene for...

Rome Workplaces

Making Scents Of The World: Paola Bottai

For the petite 35-year-old perfume is more than a flight of fancy, it’s an obsession. Paola’s sunny studio finds its...

New York City Workplaces

Chris Hackett

He’s a multi-hyphenate artist whose work encompasses metalsmithing, art, construction, writing, survivalism and reality TV. He is the co-founder of...

Berlin

April Showers Bring May Flowers

In the Freunde von Freunden apartment Marsano, Berlin’s gorgeous flower and interior business and one of the pioneers of this...

Berlin

Erik Spiekermann

The list goes on and spans decades of collaborations and clients. As the founder of FontShop, the first mail-order distributor...

Berlin

Strings of Life: Frank Rittwagen

It is a craft of skill, dedication and patience – delicate work, a process of construction, dismantling and reconstruction, that...

Moscow Workplaces

Artem Letunov & Alexey Inshakov

In creative industries it is very common for someone to switch between different fields of specialization in order to further...

The FvF Workshop 2012 at Soho House Berlin

It is rare to encounter others that move within the same creative sphere and produce unified thought processes. This is...