DesignHub is the easiest way to find designers and visual creatives in the Middle East. DesignHub.me is a resource for designers and visual creatives in the Middle East where they can showcase their portfolios that will be easily accessible to potential clients. So much exciting stuff going on in Lebanon creatively we love to find out about incredible websites like Designhub.me that facilitate business development in the region. Co founder Nabil Read More ...
I am completely in love with the entire T L – 1 8 0 accessory collection created by Luisa Orsini & Tine Peduzzi, who are incredibly cool and stylish designers that met several years ago in Rome during a party at Villa Medici. How did you start TL 180? We both just finished our studies ( architecture & fashion) and used to burn time together by painting, drawing etc.. then Read More ...
Racial Profiling Portrait by Carlos Alvarez Montero Originally from the Bay Area, Marina studied journalism at San Francisco State University. She was fortunate to pick up meaningful work as a journalist right out of college: as an investigative reporting intern at Mother Jones, business reporter/fact checker for Business 2.0, an online producer for Latino.com, and then as managing editor of Planet Magazine. After a masters in poetry, she came to NYC and Read More ...
Samer Chamoun has good taste. That’s basically my intro and why I’ve asked him to do this interview. The talented Lebanese architect is lead designer at Zaha Hadid and is currently based in London,(I’ll just let him tell you the rest…..) I was born in Lebanon in the deadliest period of the war, and escaped with my family to Canada at the end of the 80’s where I became fat Read More ...
Phoebe Lewis is a freelance set and events designer based in London who’s work I ADORE. Tell us about yourself Phoebe: After I studied architecture, I had a brief dip into branding and editorial at Tank magazine, then worked as a freelance set designer for Hampstead Theatre and other fringe productions, including a rather twisted Cabinet of Curiosity at Glastonbury festival. I then worked for a while at Fiona Leahy Read More ...
Redwoods Tree House Restaurant in NZ Spherical Tree House in Canada Cocoon by Bellemo & Cat in Australia Harads Tree Hotel by Tham & Videgard Hansson check out amazing photos by Peter Lundstrom of Tree Hotel The Wilkinson Residence in Portland Oregon, Robert Harvey Oshatz
Yesterday I got to fall in love with New York all over again. Alphabets in NY is a fabulous little shop in the East Village full of fun trinkets and gifts for all ages. A couple of my favorites include : Baby Gaga Onesie Lego’s Architecture Series Iplunge handy stand Foodie Fight Trivial Game I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You Read More ...
Thank you Serine Dalloul, our Middle East Contributing Editor for this great introduction. Beirut-born designer Racha El Abbas was raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. At the age of eighteen she moved to Beirut to join the School of Architecture & Design at the American University of Beirut as an architecture student only to find herself drawn to the world of Graphic Design, experimenting with media and discovering new graphic Read More ...
Sra Pou vocational school is a training center and community building in Cambodia, designed by Architects Rudanko + Kankkunen from Finland built during spring 2011. The Sra Pou community is one of the unprivileged communities in Cambodia, who have been evicted from their homes in the city to the surrounding countryside. The project was started by young architects Hilla Rudanko and Anssi Kankkunen in an Aalto university design studio in Read More ...
Blak & Co in Beirut, is the brainchild concept store of Lebanese-French designer Lina El Khoury. Passion for art and a keen eye to detail encouraged Lina to start out in the artistic world. Furniture design began as a hobby for her. In addition to her own bespoke creations and custom made furniture, Lina’s Blak & Co is a venue for young and up and coming artists to display their Read More ...
