GIANANTONIO LOCATELLI Founder, Museo della Merda

GIANANTONIO LOCATELLI

Agricultural entrepreneur Gianantonio Locatelli opened the Museo della Merda (Museum of Shit) in Lombardy in 2015. Housed in a medieval castle sited on his dairy farm, the museum highlights the uses of excrement: methane from cow dung is used as an energy source, while the dung itself is not only used as fertilizer but as […]

Jon Marshal – Co Founder and Director of MAP

Jon Marshal - Co Founder and Director of MAP

London-based creative consultancy Map specializes in strategy industrial design. Map’s clients include Virgin Atlantic, Google and Panasonic as well as startups such as Kano and BeeLine. Jon Marshall was listed as one of Creative Review’s top 50 creative leaders in 2016; the team at Map has won over 25 international design awards and Map is […]

Joe Gebbia – Cofounder AirBnb

Joe Gebbia was an entrepreneur from an early age and Airbnb’s ground-breaking online peer-to-peer rental platform began in his San Francisco apartment. Airbnb now has over two million listings in over 190 countries, and has created a new economic model for thousands of people around the world. He recently launched Samara, an innovation and design […]

Frances Edgerly – Cofounder Assemble

Frances Edgerly

Visual artist and designer Frances Edgerley is a cofounder of the Assemble architecture collective. Her background is in philosophy and psychology, and her personal artistic practice includes digital art, sculpture, and performance. Assemble develops successful projects on problematic public spaces, using design as a tool for improving the city’s social and cultural life. Assemble’s groundbreaking […]

100% Natural Biodegradable Fabric Brand by Freitag, Zürich, Switzerland

100% Natural Biodegradable Fabric Brand by Freitag, Zürich, Switzerland

‘Opaque but still transparent’ is the philosophy behind Freitag garments made from its new F-ABRIC textile, made from flax and hemp. The material itself may be rugged (the range includes jeans) but from fibre to finish, F-ABRIC is completely transparent. Every stage of the production process happens within a 2,500-kilometre radius of the Freitag factory […]

Best 3D Designing Technology Software for Fashion by Clément Balavoine, Hong Kong

Best 3D Designing Technology Software for Fashion by Clément Balavoine, Hong Kong

Tailoring, one of the world’s oldest crafts, comes together with future-facing technology in Neuro, a new digital-only process conceived by French designer Clément Balavoine. Inspired by video game and movie concept artists, Balavoine creates clothes using 3D software, then fits the garments on virtual models. His process enables designers to create and visualize any design […]

A New Fashion Journal Niijournal in London

A New Fashion Journal Niijournal in London

Fashion perhaps isn’t an obvious bedfellow for social and political discourse, but new magazine Niijournal is making more than a style statement. Part of a wave of young black creatives who are harnessing the power of the image – as the Black Lives Matter activist movement reverberates around the world – photographer Campbell Addy launched […]

Coziest Hotel in Oddsson, Reykjavík, Iceland

Coziest Hotel in Oddsson, Reykjavík, Iceland

Situated in the centre of the Icelandic capital, overlooking Faxa Bay, Oddsson is a charming combination of hotel, hostel and local meeting spot. As a hostel-like hotel, it has an informal, youthful buzz; as a hotel-like hostel, it embraces the little luxuries of hotel life. Facilities include a yoga room, karaoke room, rooftop hot tub, […]

Above Sea Level – Best Wine Culture in London?

Above Sea Level - Best Wine Culture in London

Craft beer or barrel-aged cocktails might be the default tipples of choice in any hip bar, but journalist Aimee Hartley is working to change that. Above Sea Level, a new wine and culture magazine founded by Hartley, is redefining wine, making it more accessible to a younger generation who can find the drink intimidating. With […]