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Drawing words: Hamburg illustrator Anna Eisenhauer on hand-lettering and hip-hop
“Animals are great if you work alone a lot,” says Anna while petting Barnie, her grey rabbit who sits twitching on her lap. “Sure, you get stressed sometimes but that’s where our four-legged friends can help. You look at them, pet them, and it just puts you in a great mood,” she adds from her … Read More

Redefining the American streetwear aesthetic with Japanese sneakerhead Tetsuya Shono
It all started with a book: Six Stories of GORE-TEX® Products Vol. 2 is the brainchild of Jörg Haas who runs Berlin-based agency Beinghunted. The book conveys various collaborations between Gore-Tex and designers and brands from all over the world including Norse Projects or Acronym. Tetsuya Shono of New Balance Japan is also featured. Talking … Read More

Tagging, Curating, and Creating with Manuel Osterholt AKA artist SuperBlast
First immersing himself in the skateboarding, hip-hop and graffiti scene of his hometown Heidelberg in the late ’80s and ’90s, he was caught in a subcultural undertow that drew him to Berlin in the early 2000s. It was in the German capital that he began cutting his teeth and developed his idiosyncratic style. Berlin is … Read More

Photographer Vicky Grout exposes London’s grime scene one rave at a time
The explanation and our following conversation is punctuated by sudden, excited finger-points out of the window at passers-by and meaningful East London spots (a member of a feminist music collective she knows here, a memorable after party location there). In the grand scheme of things we’re a stone’s throw from Bow E3, one of the … Read More
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The HighSnobiety founder and founder of Donald Schneider Studio come together to discuss what makes a good collaboration, authenticity, and young audiences’ bullshit detectors. While these questions may be difficult to answer, due to their copious experiences in the fashion and luxury industries, David Fischer and Donald Schneider are two of the best individuals to …

Two such curators are Lukas Feireiss, whose eponymous studio “provides overall conceptual development, design and implementation for diverse formats of knowledge dissemination and visual communication”, and Matylda Krzykowski, who works across the fields of design, architecture, art, and performance. Among other collaborative projects, Krzykowski notably co-founded Depot Basel, an online space for contemporary design which …
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