Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos Transforms an Abandoned Church into an Unlikely Home
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos creates a home out of a 16th century church...
How Brown Jordan and Toan Nguyen Reinvented Rope for the H Collection
Brown Jordan has a legacy dating back to 1945, but the team is constantly pushing forward and evolving. That includes working with new materials and designers who think outside the box. For the H Collection, Brown Jordan collaborated with award-winning industrial...
Stephan Gladieu Opens the Doors to North Korea in Latest Portrait Series
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Stephan Gladieu goes behind the lens in North Korea. + The French...
Mexico City’s DL1310 Apartments Put a New Twist on Concrete
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** In Mexico City, Young & Ayata and Michan Architecture bring a...
Here are the Winners of the First International Automotive Photography Awards
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Check out the winners of the first-ever 2020 International Automotive...
Patricia Urquiola Gives Spanish Twist to Frankfurt Interiors, and Other News
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Patricia Urquiola brings breezy Spanish flair to an office complex in...
Sarcostyle Tower, Herman Miller, the 2020 Beazley Design of the Year Award, and Other News
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Mark Grattan Shares His Must-Have Fitness Products
Mark Grattan is the cofounder and creative director at Mexico City furniture design studio VIDIVIXI. The Ohio native moved from New York City to Mexico City in 2016 when he met Adam Caplowe, originally from London, at a friend’s birthday party, and they started their...
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A New Platform for Creatives in War-Torn Countries, Netflix’s ‘Lupin,’ Flying Cars, and Other News
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Social enterprise platform ISHKAR gives creatives in countries like...
Agam Darshi Shares Her Top Feel-Good Finds
Agam Darshi is an award-winning actress, writer, director, and producer. Born in England and raised all over Canada, she currently lives in LA. You can catch her in a lead role in Funny Boy, based on Shyam Selvadurai’s best-selling novel, on Netflix. As an activist...
Take Five and Unwind with Actor Al Coronel
Al Coronel has been a victim, hero, salsa dancer, and video game character—some in real life and on-screen. In reality he’s an actor, veteran (eight years as a Marine), and world-recognized salsa dancer. The LA native landed his first film role in Johnny Depp’s Blow...
On the Road to Vermejo Park Ranch in the 2021 Volvo V90 Cross Country
In between the southern stretch of the Great Plains and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains lies Vermejo Park Ranch—558,000 acres of wilderness now owned and cared for by 82-year-old media mogul Ted Turner, the third biggest private landowner in the US (John Malone,...
Elle Lorraine’s Must-Have Products to Get Through a Long Winter’s Night
Elle Lorraine stars in Bad Hair, a 2020 Hulu original that debuted in October 2020 to rave reviews. This horror satire set in 1989 follows an ambitious young woman who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. But her career...
How Niels van Roij is Bringing Back Coachbuilding in Automotive Design
“I’m always in a three-piece suit,” Niels van Roij says. “They’re tailor-made with fabric from cars I’ve worked on.” The 36-year-old designer’s studio specializes in coachbuilding, a throwback to the days when cars were sold as a rolling chassis and the body was...
Dave Kindig on Design and Building the Greatest Custom Cars
“I have a very creative mind. I don’t sleep much,” says Dave Kindig of Kindig-It Design, a premium custom car shop and the subject of the reality TV series Bitchin’ Rides, now in its seventh season. Dave built a special ’58 Lincoln Continental named Maybellene. “It’s...
Touré on Finding a Quiet Space to Write and Digging into the Work
Touré talks about finding a quiet space to write, his favorite tools, and digging into the work.
Jo Nagasaka’s Koganeyu Brings a 21st Century Update to the Japanese Bathhouse
In a time when public bathing is rapidly diminishing in popularity, designer Jo Nagasaka took on the task of modernizing a local sento, or Japanese bathhouse, called Koganeyu. Jo’s imaginative work engages tradition and contemporary style in one space. To bring modern...
Johanna Grawunder on the Power of Designing Experiences, Light, and the Digital Revolution
Johanna Grawunder lights the way in design with installations that combine light, furniture, and color. Here’s how she does it.
Inside JARtB House, Billy Kavellaris’ Museum-Inspired Home
JARtb House includes more than 30 works of art—sculpture, paintings, and large-scale installations alike—made by artists all over the globe.
Xiaopeng Yuan on Self-Publishing and Working With International Photographers and Writers
Xiaopeng Yuan spends his days living and working in Shanghai, splitting much of his time between taking photos and importing books. The 33-year-old is the cofounder of Same Paper, a self-publishing book and photography studio that started as a blog to share Xiaopeng...
Yinka Ilori on How His Technicolor Designs Tell Stories of His Nigerian Heritage
London-based Yinka Ilori brings optimism and light to unexpected places with work across mediums. In summer 2019 Yinka’s “Colour Palace” emerged outside Dulwich Picture Gallery as a celebration of his native London as well as his Nigerian roots. Striking in its...
Eny Lee Parker on Paying the Bills and Breaking the Mold
Eny Lee Parker grew up in São Paulo and moved to LA when she was 13 years old. There she was reunited with her Korean mother who didn’t speak Portuguese, but with the help of friends she learned Korean and then English. “I had a typical immigrant experience in LA. I...
Dominic Ciambrone, “The Shoe Surgeon,” on Deadlines, Drugs, and Depression
Dominic Ciambrone, also known as “The Shoe Surgeon,” shares how he got his start in shoe customizing—and kept with his art despite setbacks.
Élise Rigollet, a Risograph, and a World of Gems
Graphic designer Elise Rigollet on her love of the Risograph, her parents’ gem collection, and studying and working in New York and Paris.