An orchestra without an address made a typeface its facade
Orkest Phion is a travelling orchestra with no permanent hall. Thonik anchored its identity in the variable font GT Planar, whose slant angle acts as a score for every campaign.
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Holly Thomas didn't draw her diary. She cut it into fragments
Picking up a Toad began with a diary written in the Andes, but Holly Thomas did not illustrate it entry by entry. She extracted sentences, placed them inside images and let conflicting feelings remain adjacent.
Mark Francis isn't painting a waveform. He keeps its rhythm and accidents
Chroma talks about frequency, echo and resonance. But the sources document no audio-to-colour converter: Mark Francis uses sound more like a grammar for rhythm, repetition, interruption and chance.
To archive twenty years of clubbing, photograph the people who are not on stage
Three Warehouse Project photographers show why a durable archive cannot be built from headliners alone: arrivals, pauses, gestures, crowds and the end of the night carry the culture forward.
To rebuild Barbie's logo, Teddy Blanks started by buying dolls on eBay
Teddy Blanks does not begin a film title with a typeface. For Barbie, Werwulf or Nickel Boys, he first finds a real artifact from the film’s world, then reconstructs what is missing.
The real test of this library starts when they take it apart
Amsterdam's OBA Next Lab was built to be dismantled and moved. Its 24 modules and dry connections prepare that second life, while Circl shows what the real test will involve.
Intuition is not where design starts. It comes after the evidence
For Alina Derya Yakaboylu, intuition follows observation, interviews and collected traces. That order helps keep a concept from being pasted onto a project afterwards.
She embroiders on wood, where every mistake is permanent
A former lead watch designer, Nosheen Iqbal pulls thread and beads through laser-cut birch, turning Islamic geometry and Pakistani textile traditions into reliefs that forgive no wrong stitch.
The Devil's Milk Still Flows Into Your Tires
A latex scale, a rubberwood cabinet, a bench wearing synthetic skin: with The Devil's Milk, Shahar Livne turns three centuries of rubber's industrial history into furniture you can touch.
BikeBox does not hide the bike in the garden. It replaces the wall
BikeBox combines a boundary wall, planter and secure bicycle store. It becomes more interesting when read as a piece of domestic architecture rather than a disguised shed.