The photographer Jakob Straub has been taking photographs of the interiors of domes in churches and secular buildings in Rome for many years. With his medium-format analogue camera he captured those symbols of perfection. The publication presents 36 rotundas on a 50-foot-long accordion fold and is written in English and German. all images by Jakob Straub found in The Weekender Magazine…
I am really happy to introduce you to a new column here on the blog: The Interview! I thought about this for quite some time now as I’m always curious about the persons and stories behind creative brands. So here we go with the first one! Arela is a clothing brand based in Helsinki, Finland, and is run by Maija Arela and her daughters Anni and Viivi. Mainly working with cashmere knits and cotton jersey they create contemporary yet timeless,…
Kindo is an exclusive children’s clothing and accessories store designed by branding and architecture firm Anagrama. The interior of the store is looking like a giant bead maze, made up of geometric shapes and simple figures. The pastel and neon colored construction creates a dynamic space where each of the bead maze’s attributes are used for the products’ exhibition: The pipes double as clothes rails and the beads are used to exhibit an array of accessories. The aim of the…
The city maps by Herb Lester Associates are a welcome change to conventional city guides. Each map has a different design accompanied by illustrations of various artists. The aim of Herb Lester is not to tell the readers everything there is to know about a city, but to tell them how to really enjoy it. They achieve this by researching each city the old-fashioned way: asking friends, acquaintances, cab drivers and concierges for their tips and then walking, tasting, sipping,…
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a set of diamond-shaped vases for the design brand Iittala. They called the collection Ruutu, which means diamond or square in Finnish. The vases come in various sizes and watercolor inspired tones that can be collected and combined in seamless installations. The Bouroullec brothers explain: “Iittala knows very well how to manipulate colours. In Ruutu, we were able to create a delicate, watercolour-like palettes that intermingle with each other when combining sizes…
Sarah Illenberger is a German multi-disciplinary artist who is working in the fields of art, graphic design and photography. She studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins and founded her own studio in 2007. Sarah has the ability to transform ordinary everyday items into complex and unexpected visual images. Living in Berlin, she is working for clients all over the world, like NYT Magazine, Wallpaper, Architectural Digest, The Weekender and Zeit Magazine.…
Minna Jones works as a freelance interior stylist in Helsinki, Finland. In 2013 she bought a archipelago cabin to spend the weekends and holidays with her family there, surrounded by nature. Since then Minna and her family have done an awesome work with renovating and decorating their cozy nordic summer house. If you like to read more about the process you can visit her blog Time of the Aquarius where she also shares a lot of nordic design inspiration.…
Electric Feathers is a New York City based fashion label by designer Leana Zuniga. The pieces of the current Spring/Summer collection have fascinated me right away: Warm colors, richly textured and natural fabrics, timeless and convertible silhouettes. The concept behind Leana Zuniga’s Electric Feathers is to capture contemporary timelessness and versatility. Inspired by the elegance in all things effortless and functional, the intention is to create pieces that can be worn in many environments: day to night, and when possible,…
Sebit Min is a graphic designer and illustrator from Brooklyn, New York and just recently she graduated from the BFA School of Visual Arts. I found Sebit’s work thanks to her Instagram profile which I fell in love with some months ago. This blue and white collection of illustrations is my favorite piece of work from her. It is a set of 8 postcards, made with risograph printing by Mega Press and published by Private Paradise Project.…