Interview: Aaron De La Cruz: The San Francisco-based artist on his new Ace Hotel mural and embracing imperfections

Interview: Aaron De La Cruz


by Eva Glettner Prolific artist Aaron De La Cruz was initially inspired to paint because he idolized his older brother. His now-signature style—which bounces from design, graffiti to illustration—is highly stylized and technical, blending influences from Mayan…

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Studio Visit: Amelie Mancini: The French-born, Brooklyn-based artist on her process, Left Field Cards and her love of baseball

Studio Visit: Amelie Mancini


by Eva Glettner The multi-talented Amelie Mancini is a Brooklyn-based French artist who works with a variety of mediums—from wood to linen to wool—to create her playful, colorful artworks. Her fascination with baseball, born from the first…

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Interview: Marc Newson: The acclaimed Australian designer on his collaboration with Safilo and how all design is problem-solving

Interview: Marc Newson


Recently, we reported on the launch of a new collaboration between Safilo and acclaimed Australian designer Marc Newson, meant to celebrate 80 years of activity for the historic Italian eyewear…

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TOG: All Creators Together: A simple, yet innovative approach to home decor, customization and great design

TOG: All Creators Together


The dream of many a design enterprise—the best designers, meaningful materials, Italian production, a community of fans, reinterpretations made by artists—TOG is all of this, and more. “All creators together” is the idea behind this new design…

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Alley-Oop II at Poketo: Designers Eric Trine and Will Bryant bring their second colorful installation to the LA retailer

Alley-Oop II at Poketo


For years Eric Trine and Will Bryant have been both friends and collaborators with Poketo’s Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung. Last year the first installment of Alley-Oop filled…

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BHDM Design: The design duo create spaces that tell stories and their latest project—a craft beer bar called Hog’s Head—will open in May

BHDM Design


Since joining forces in 2008, Dan Mazzarini and Brian Humphrey have been conceiving and crafting eclectic hospitality, retail and residential spaces through their company, BHDM. Mazzarini (previously designing stores for…

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Source Material: From sewing machines to petrified wood, this Milan exhibition showcases objects that inspired creatives

Source Material


Inspiration is one of the most interesting and mysterious aspects of creativity. It’s those sparks that ignite the creative process which are the focus of Source Material, an upcoming exhibition due…

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Art Paris Art Fair 2014: Design: Perfume machines, pigeon feathers and more of our favorite pieces blurring the line between art and design

Art Paris Art Fair 2014: Design


For the third time in Art Paris Art Fair’s brief but compelling history, design was showcased alongside contemporary art; enhancing the intrinsic link and blurred lines between the two entities. Exhibited within the fair’s ArtDesign platform, the range…

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Michael Leavitt’s Cardboard Kicks: The Seattle-based artist replicates an ordinary item with an everyday material, with fantastic results

Michael Leavitt's Cardboard Kicks


by Eva Glettner Seattle-based Michael Leavitt might be a college dropout (he quit Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute of Art as a freshman, despite his a 4.0 GPA) but that, by no means, has meant he’s a failed artist….

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The Message is Medium Rare: A keen burger blog tackling culinary reviews with an expert eye for design

The Message is Medium Rare


A wise man once said “not all burgers are created equal.” They come in all shapes and sizes, with and without adornments, but at the end of the day, the only way to really know a burger…

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