Vestre opens the world’s most sustainable manufacturing facility, The Plus, & there is oh so much to luv
What Design Can Do is uniting the design community to tackle some of the world's biggest issues
Verk co-founder and creative director Simon Anund talks sustainability, misleading labels, and fossil fuels
Developed and produced 100% in Berlin, System 180 focuses on the creation of "modular furniture, which is timeless, functional, durable, flexible, dismountable, and good looking."
A true artist: Tom Hegen is a photographer who documents the beauty and the destruction of human activity on the earth’s surface with his spellbinding, aerial photography.
The femme power-house of this all-female design collective, MATTER OF COURSE, hits Milan Design Week
Meet the artist behind the curvy, bendy, hand-made ceramic brand Mud Witch – Viviana Matsuda
Swedish designers Carolina Härdh and Emeli Höcks, create sleek, minimalist furniture pieces out of repurposed food waste.
We sat down with Paris-based photographer, feminist and activist, Andrea Bresciani to chat about her work and what drives her very moving and relatable imagery.
5 initiatives that are helping to shape a sustainable future
by Esben Smith and Marina Porto
Berlin’s former International airport transforms into tech micro green city within a city.
A few months ago we were given the unique opportunity to interview minimalist architectural genius, John Pawson for Issue 28 of The Essential Journal.
For those of you who aren’t already in the know, we'd like to introduce you to The Gentlewoman, a biannual magazine that's also a club.
Photographer Charles Pétillon is the artist behind the in situ balloon installations where his process begins with the visualization of the final framed image. Pétillon is known for his work titled 'invasions' - a series of photographs depicting balloon clusters in unusual outdoor settings.
Netflix has a great series titled Abstract: The Art Of Design. This series takes an in-depth look at different artistic fields. Architecture is one of them and it features Bjarke Ingels' 2016 design for London's Serpentine Pavilion. This year, beaming blue amongst the trees of Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park, is the pavilion by chosen Berlin-based architect Diébédo Francis Kéré.
Meet Instagram phenomenon Sara Shakeel, a Conceptual Collage Artist based in Islamabad, Pakistan. Bored with her former life as a dentist, Sara started exploring the world of collage art. Starting off playing with cellphone apps like picsart and pixabay, her work soon progressed to photoshop and beyond.
Most of us are familiar with Merino wool - its luxurious look and soft feel. It is both stain and odor resistant making it easy to care for. But what about the wool from the Herdwick sheep native to the Lake District of Cumbria in North West England? Its characteristics are wiry, dark and hard. Unsuitable for most types of clothing this wool has traditionally been used for carpets.
Masha Demianova’s photos tell haunting tales of life as a woman in Moscow, asking us to question the difference between reality and fantasy
How often do you get to go to a free, interactive exhibition in an amazing industrial space and given a camera to freely take all the photographs you desire? In Berlin you get this opportunity once a year at the Olympus Perspective Playground.
Last week the London Design Festival took over much England's capital. We decided to get out of the studio for a few days and check it all out.
The Adidas Stan Smith shoe is about as simple as a shoe can get. The shoe and its numerous variations have been around for over 40 years. Most recently, Adidas has linked up with our favourite textile company, Kvadrat.
Introducing the Kuskoa Bi, the first bioplastic chair to be manufactured using organically sourced polymer by the Basque furniture company Alki.
