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Design

Design

Is the fashion for simplified sans-serif logos changing? Plus: why trade halls still matter.

  • Issue #162
  • 5 min read
Modern furniture showroom with white sofas, wooden coffee table, large paper lantern and Arper brand signage
Education

Culture

Why you have to be quick on the draw to book a place on this graphic-novel course.

  • Issue #162
  • 8 min read
Culture
Architecture

By the book

The completion of a 15-year library renovation is the end of a chapter for the team behind it – but the bonds they’ve formed are an ongoing story.

  • Issue #162
  • 4 min read
Group of eleven people posing together in ornate library with domed ceiling and circular bookshelves
Culture

Collision course

A school of hard knocks in France is sending stunt performers tripping and flipping to the silver screen.

  • Issue #162
  • 4 min read
Students practice combat choreography in a training studio with exposed brick walls and modern lighting
Design

Urbanism

Sustainable materials, Hollywood campuses and posthumous acclaim for Portuguese designer Daciano da Costa.

  • Issue #161
  • 4 min read
Modern university building with vertical metal cladding and students walking outside with yellow umbrellas
Design

Out of the past

For more than 150 years, Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has fostered the nation’s gifted designers. Now it is finally building an archive to celebrate its history.

  • Issue #161
  • 6 min read
Modern chair designs displayed on wooden platforms in Fritz Hansen's Design Hall exhibition space
Fashion

Stepping up

When booming shoe brand Veja needed a bigger HQ, it set out to make a space that was good for both the environment and its staff.

  • Issue #161
  • 8 min read
Stepping up
Travel and restaurants

Hidden gems

The small Japanese town of Yame, and its surrounding countryside, is pulling in visitors with its new inn and craft heritage.

  • Issue #161
  • 10 min read
Traditional Japanese room with tatami floors, exposed wooden beams, paper lantern, low table and built-in shelving
Architecture

Cold war modern

With its vast lobbies and unfussy functionality, the concrete-and-glass Deutsche Oper building was considered an audacious statement of democratic ideals when it first opened in 1961 on the western side of the Berlin Wall.

  • Issue #161
  • 10 min read
Interior view of Deutsche Oper's auditorium showing tiered seating and wood-paneled walls with modernist design

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