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TRUISM OF THE DAY 34: PATRICIA URQUIOLA

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Time, of course, is very much on the agenda these days, and it’s nice to see / hear architect Patricia Urquiola think about time, in Pin-Up #16.

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END OF THE YEAR

Friday, December 19, 2014

Dear Friends,
the year is drawing to a close, and it’s time to get some rest and reacquaint ourselves with our friends and families. Our studio will be closed from today until the beginning of January, while we will keep posting here sporadically every now and then. In the meantime, we wish you a great vacation [...]

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MONO.EDITIONEN #05: CHRIS WARE

Friday, November 28, 2014

Dear Friends,
it is becoming increasingly impossible to ignore: Christmas Season is upon us, and where did the year go? But just in time, we are immensely proud to present our latest installment of mono.editionen, in the form of one giant poster, by none other than Chris Ware.
Because it is precisely those questions – the passing [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 33: RICHARD LINKLATER

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Maverick film maker Richard Linklater knows a thing or two about time passing, especially since his magnum opus Boyhood, filmed over 12 years in real time. He shares some thoughts on the matter in this not so recent anymore interview with Matthew McConaughey (who coincidentally owes his first film role to Linklater) in Interview.

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IN CHINATOWN, LOS ANGELES

Thursday, October 30, 2014
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IN THE MEANTIME…

Monday, October 20, 2014

…it’s crazy busy at the studio, as several projects we’ve been working on are coming to fruition (including our new issue, of course) – watch this space!

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BOFILLTOPIAS POSTSCRIPT

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Maybe the most inadvertently accurate footnote on Ricardo Bofill’s architecture from the 1980s comes from Cyprien Gaillard, our interviewee of issue #24 who actually, at the time, introduced us to the work of Bofill. A mixture of fascination and skepticism exemplified beautifully in Gaillard’s short film The Lake Arches, shot, of course, at Les [...]

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MAY THE CIRCLE REMAIN UNBROKEN

Thursday, August 14, 2014

With Instagram and virtually every other photographer shooting from the hip these days, it’s easy to forget that 20 years ago, that kind of snapshot photography was entirely unacceptable in a commercial context. With pioneers in casual snaps for high end fashion such as Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Terry Richardson having ascended to super [...]

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BOFILLTOPIAS #04: LES ESPACES D’ABRAXAS

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Gracing the cover of our new issue on Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill is a view of his monumental housing project Les Espaces d’Abraxas, built in 1982 near Paris. While Bofill’s projects of the 1960s and ’70s already qualify as large, Les Espaces d’Abraxas embodies a new phase in his career with structures that are simply [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 29: WILL SELF

Thursday, July 10, 2014

The aging enfant terrible of British literature, Will Self, in a rather great essay on Chernobyl for Port.

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