by Laura Rote | Dec 19, 2020 | Design
“I’ve always considered myself an amateur historian, especially as a Black American in the US, where histories are very conflated,” says artist Umar Rashid. “It’s not like, ‘Hey, I’m Irish.’ Nobody really knows where they come from. In the case of African-Americans... 
by The Sixtysix Staff | Dec 17, 2020 | News
Sixtysix is back with its fifth issue, available worldwide now. Our second issue created in quarantine, Issue 05 features studio tours and conversations with creatives and designers who continue to create, invent, and design despite the isolation and obstacles... 
by Mikenna Pierotti | Dec 16, 2020 | Design
Bookmaker Irma Boom’s Amsterdam studio is on a tree-lined street bathed in dappled light. There she owns a pair of stately brick townhouses bridged by an eclectic three-story structure composed entirely of glass, concrete, and steel. One-part studio, one-part library... 
by Chris Force | Oct 28, 2020 | Design
Pre-COVID, we had ridden close to 2,000 rugged miles through Vietnam, from dense cities, choked on crazed scooter riders, to pastoral rice fields sprinkled with farm animals. Our group—which included custom motorcycle builder Dave Mucci—spent two weeks hurling a fleet... 
by Julia Stone | Jul 3, 2020 | Design
Matika Wilbur is a Swinomish and Tulalip [tribes in the Puget Sound region] storyteller and photographer from Washington. After studying at the Brooks Institute of Photography and Rocky Mountain School of Photography, she worked as a fashion photographer in LA before... 
by Jessica Mordacq | Mar 5, 2020 | Design
Designer Aaron Denton is inspired by minimalism, modernism, and easy living. Since he started freelancing full-time in January 2018, he’s used these influences to create hypnotic band posters and album covers from the comfort of his Bloomington, Indiana home. The two... 
by Mikenna Pierotti | Nov 11, 2019 | Studio Tours
The human condition, identity, individuality—these are the themes of Elena Øhlander’s work. “Within the framework of my Eurasian-American feminine identity I seek to preserve my heritage and cultures,” she says. In the traditional Japanese art form sumi-e, the ensō is... 
by Scott Morrow | Jul 12, 2019 | Design
Creativity is in the DNA of siblings Natalie and Elliot Bergman, also known as the multicultural pop group Wild Belle. Born to musicians with a deep appreciation for art and travel, the two have been inspired to create their whole lives. But it’s not just music... 
by Laura Rote | May 6, 2019 | Design
I’d been walking around New Orleans all morning and afternoon when I turned the corner and finally found a bit of respite—the Eliza Jane. On a relatively quiet side street (compared to the heart of the French Quarter), the hotel’s Press Room bar and lobby area called... 
by Ayla Angelos | Mar 13, 2019 | Design
Angela Santana, a Swiss artist currently residing in New York, uses her medium to address the mass consumption of online imagery. Through her ongoing series of large-scale oil paintings, inspired by illicit images she finds on the internet, Angela interrogates the... 
by Maia Welbel | Jan 31, 2019 | Design
Allie Kushnir’s driving force has always been finding the most considerate way to live. The painter and designer has developed a brand of custom-printed fabrics and paper products—both grounded in the principle of minimizing environmental impact. Allie is also... 
by Stephen Gossett | Jan 29, 2019 | Insights
The terror of the blank page. If you’re a writer, designer, illustrator, or pretty much any kind of creative person, chances are you’ve felt the sting of creative block. Maybe a deadline is looming and you need to get the creative engine revving, but all you get are... 