Issue 5

November 2025
From Malaysia to Spain, Finland to China, we spotlight groundbreaking creatives and compact design that pushes the boundaries of imagination.
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24 Hours in Geelong with Tsai Design
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24 Hours in Geelong with Tsai Design
Meet Jack Chen and Hidy Wong of Tsai Design – experts in converting awkward spaces into elegant instruments of living.
A Bit Off: An Interview with Tom Loeser
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A Bit Off: An Interview with Tom Loeser
Tom Loeser is not interested in making furniture that disappears. His creations conceal surprises, subversions and questions, ready to reward the curious.
A Case Study in Conservation: The Ancient City of Nantou
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A Case Study in Conservation: The Ancient City of Nantou
The power of the public square and community co-creation have been central to the artful preservation of China’s ancient city of Nantou.
An invitation to play
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An invitation to play
Icelandic design collective ÞYKJÓ explores how children's perspectives on play can transform design practice through tactile collaboration and make-believe.
A Shop of Secrets
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A Shop of Secrets
Aamu Song and Johan Olin have built their art practice around the sacredness of secrets and from their shop in Helsinki, they share them with the world.
Character Driven
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Character Driven
Step inside the home and restless creative mind of Loo Lok Chern (AKA Cloakwork): buzzing with colour, character and Malaysian nostalgia.
Floors Apart: An Interview with Bogdan Gîrbovan
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Floors Apart: An Interview with Bogdan Gîrbovan
The neighbourly act of greasing a creaky door was the trigger for this fascinating photographic series from Romanian photographer Bogdan Gîrbovan.
From the Heart to the Hands
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From the Heart to the Hands
The exploratory and meditative practice of mask-making is the creative fuel that keeps the practice of Dutch artist and designer Bertjan Pot pumping.
Good cult bad cult?
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Good cult bad cult?
Kirsten Drysdale contemplates the overlapping bits in the community/cult Venn diagram (and the advantageous influence of a glass of prosecco in all scenarios).
Love at First Pepper Mill
Love at First Pepper Mill
A New York couple's chance encounter with a Jens Quistgaard pepper mill in Copenhagen sparked an obsession that led to collecting 60 pieces and creating a comprehensive website documenting the Danish designer's complete pepper mill series.
New York's Tenements: The foundations of a city
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New York's Tenements: The foundations of a city
Millions of Americans can trace their history back to New York’s iconic tenements: the apartment buildings which the city (in)famously grew from.
Open Door Policy
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Open Door Policy
For more than 40 years Malaysia’s renegade landscape architect Sek San Ng has pioneered the idea of the “Third World Aesthetic”: a design philosophy and language that celebrates “The raw. The local. The grit. The grime.”
Small Home: Appartement Rhin
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Small Home: Appartement Rhin
Small Home: Casa Vivamati
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Small Home: Casa Vivamati
Inspiration from a rejection of minimalist aesthetics in Rome.
Small Home: Unplanned Domestic Prototype
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Small Home: Unplanned Domestic Prototype
The Beguiling Banksia Chair
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The Beguiling Banksia Chair
Perth-based designer Mark Lilly transforms native Australian Banksia seed pods into an unexpectedly strong and sculptural chair through experimental craft techniques.
The Bench
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The Bench
All hail the public bench in all its benevolent brilliance – the simplest piece of urban furniture.
The Delicate Art of Apartment Community
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The Delicate Art of Apartment Community
If you’re “not a group person”, how do you go about sharing your walls, bathtub and pre-sunrise soundscape with a building full of strangers? Eryca Green shows us how.
The Light Side of the Dark Side
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The Light Side of the Dark Side
Bec Vrana Dickinson shares some lessons on learning to love a dimly lit home.
The Meaning of a Metre
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The Meaning of a Metre
When it comes to architecture, size does matter. The small things are sometimes what make the biggest difference.
This Is Not a Cushion: An Interview with WIENER TIMES
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This Is Not a Cushion: An Interview with WIENER TIMES
At least, not the kind that you’re used to. The cushion is elevated to characterful companion at the hands of Austria’s WIENER TIMES.
This Is Your Home Now: An Interview With Illustrator Emilie Seto
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This Is Your Home Now: An Interview With Illustrator Emilie Seto
Meet Emilie Seto – a Marseille-based illustrator who translates the banalities of city life into something extraordinary.
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