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  • Trapananda

    Trapananda

    The Trapananda is a speculative design project by Valentina Rodríguez Peede, a Patagonian journalist, created as her final project for the Master’s degree in Design for Art Direction at the University of the Arts London. In a world on the brink of environmental collapse, The Trapananda envisions a dystopian future where humanity must reconnect with…

  • The poetics of space and materiality

    A thunderstorm was approaching, and it had started to rain. Émile hurried towards a traditional two-storey Provençal house with its weathered ochre façade, small windows adorned with lavender wooden shutters, and a low-pitched roof topped with terracotta tiles in soft peach and salmon shades.  He was visiting his long-time friend Albert, who lived there, tucked…

  • Under the knife

    This was all too familiar. An unsuspecting patient laid on the operating table under general anaesthesia, ready to undergo life-changing surgery in the expert hands of Dr Geoffrey Payne. I never understood why people would go in for his “miraculous” extreme weight loss program. I guess that’s the power of modern advertising and its catchy…