Monthly Archives: May 2021

Earlier on this week Greenpeace released a short film on the plastic crisis. Entitled "Wasteminster: A Downing Street Disaster" it was developed in collaboration with creative collective Studio Birthplace and produced by Park Village. In the short film plastic waste, … Continue reading →

The last year has definitely been unlike any other: Coronavirus impacted on all our lives, disrupting them, but also causing major changes in different fields and industries. With hindsight there are probably ideas and solutions we never thought about that … Continue reading →

Thank you to all of you who joined "The Art of Masks" talk yesterday. As explained in the previous post, the event, the eighth "Reinventing the Wheel" talk, was an expanded version of "The Art of Masks" series organised by … Continue reading →

I've personally always been fascinated by masks: when I was a child, Carnival was for me one of the highlights of the year as masks allowed me to become somebody else or to hide from others. Multiple fashion and art … Continue reading →

Sustainability is a keyword nowadays in different fields and practices, from architecture to fashion. As seen in multiple previous posts, creating new garments recycling old materials can also help designers finding new solutions for their collections. This is the case, … Continue reading →

Drones first debuted in fashion in February 2014 when they appeared on Fendi's runway in Milan. But Coronavirus has pushed the fashion industry to find other devices and technologies to enhance the runway experience. In the last year most shows … Continue reading →

Fabric and textile sculptures can help us investigating a wide range of issues, including our bodies and senses as we saw in yesterday's post, or our identity as Nastassja E. Swift teaches us. This fiber artist redefines indeed the concept … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at something simple and streamlined – bridges. For today let's instead get inspired by something equally beautiful, but characterised by very different shapes and configurations, gogottes. These rare mineral grayish-white sandstone formations are the natural … Continue reading →

Bridges connect places and spaces, but they can be great metaphors for connecting worlds and cultures as well. Besides, the construction techniques behind them can also be very intriguing as proved by the documentary "Gateways to New York – Othmar … Continue reading →

Sometimes the best inspirations come to us when we don't even realise it, for example in a dream. That was the case with the Hortensia Armchair: Buenos Aires-born Barcelona-based designer Andrés Reisinger imagined what it would be like to sit … Continue reading →