Journal

Blunt Action’s Gateway To Another Reality

Like a cosmic cocktail of nostalgic popular culture, music, and history, the rendered realities of Blunt Action harmoniously share a canvas with technology and futurism. We discuss collaboration wi...

The Role of Art in Post-Pandemic Cities

For a few months of 2020, it felt like the world hit the pause and stopped to appreciate its surroundings. Artist Camille Walala used this time of reflection to ask a question about how we should s...

Mind and Body Balance

January often begins with a fresh perspective, where wellness and the body are in focus after the festive break, slogans such as "health is wealth" dominant the tone that hopes to influence the new...

A Harmonious Hokkaido Home for A Snowsurfing Icon

Japanese snow surfing legend and snowboard designer Taro Tamai shows Matt Titone around his Hokkaido home in the snowy mountains. Balancing nature with the outdoors, his home is a timeless piece of...

The Witty Cut-Out Collages of Anthony Zinonos

Ripped, transformed, and then injected with a healthy dose of nostalgia, Anthony Zinonos' collages are playful commentaries on the way we choose to go about our lives. Through fantastical settings ...

How Memphis Milano Shook The Design World

Functionalism just wasn't enough for a young troop of Milano designers and architects who were gathered in the apartment of Ettore Sottsass in 1980. These revolutionary mavens wanted to command att...

Pose, Puzzle, and Shifting Perception

"Although my work is dark and serious, there is a childish, playful naivety and innocence about it," explains Alma Haser, whose body of work thrives inside the subjunctive imagination. A photograph...

The Oldest Perfumery in Delhi

Nestled in one of the busiest markets in old Delhi, in the Chandni Chowk area, a lively hub where bedazzled saris and elaborate lehenga cholis adorn the window displays of hundreds of boutiques, yo...

Gio Ponti Was A Master of Italian Flair

A select few are inscribed in history as pioneers of modern Italian design and architecture, Gio Ponti was undoubtedly one of them. A designer in the truest definition, today he is known as the ‘Fa...

How Japan’s First Sports Car Became A Sean Connery Classic

The Toyota 2000GT Coupe arose from a nation whose “Made in Japan” label was, at the time, the punch line of a joke. Is it in a car’s technical achievements? The 2000GT’s inline-six engine, as well ...