Amsterdam – Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

The creative director of the world’s first digital fashion house selects five era-defining moments from science fiction

When she was eight years old, Amber Jae Slooten started playing The Sims. For a young girl obsessed with clothes...

Richard van der Laken fights social injustice one design challenge at a time

In conversation with Richard van der Laken, the co-founder of the global design foundation and conference series, What Design Can...

Amsterdam Art

Five fetching photo books with MENDO publisher Gunifort Uwambaga

In a Nutshell: Five fetching photo books with MENDO publisher Gunifort Uwambaga When Gunifort Uwambaga walked into Mendo for the...

Amsterdam Architecture

Marc Koehler wants to build cities of the future, one flexible, sustainable community at a time

As an award-winning architect with his own architecture firm, Koehler’s childhood imagined cities have now developed into something far beyond...

Amsterdam Art

Kuwaiti artist Monira al Qadiri on Japanese cartoons and the body as art

“Of course he was my favorite character. I saw myself in him, and wanted to be him.” Monira is speaking...

Amsterdam Design

Textile development, technological innovation and musical intervention with Dutch designer Borre Akkersdijk

From a vibration-integrated pillow created to help dementia patients communicate to a music-playing, Wi-Fi and GPS tracker-incorporated onesie for SXSW,...

Amsterdam Architecture

Uri Gilad and Engin Celikbas reflect on the dynamic role of architecture in Amsterdam

Their friendship would soon turn into a business partnership, bringing together their expertise in an unusual way. A fascination with...

Amsterdam

Lucas Hardonk liberates our mind’s eye with images that reconstruct time and space

“We would go into the forest to photograph deer, and then to a nearby river where I captured every boat...