If you manage to put your designer-ego aside and give up on the idea that you’re a big author, you might have a great chance to fall in love … with the traditional creations, that we so often take for granted. Then you’ll understand the power of long-lasting, collective design. It’s all about contribution and […] Continue reading →

Bucharest is now a bustling city, whose legend is based on a rescue and a love story and its name can be translated as “The City of Joy”. Established on a swamp, several lakes and slow, sinuous rivers, it grew spontaneously, chaotic, naturally. Yet, surrounded by concrete, glass and steel, traffic and tall buildings, the […] Continue reading →

Our grandmothers had superpowers. They could measure without tape, cut without scissors and they could write without ink. With needle and thread, they wrote on fabric, using a visual alphabet, made out of symbols. Inspired by nature, they didn’t just described what they could see, but the laws of nature, which rule us all. Laws […] Continue reading →

First time you are born as a consumer. Helpless, you need to be fed and cared for; you need affection, attention and energy, information and education. Your mother and then, if you are lucky, all society is there to protect you. You go to school, you graduate, you earn, you buy, you get a loan […] Continue reading →

All the clothes in the world, all labels and all fashions cannot cover a body without a soul. What you wear is said to be a statement, a visual message for what people can expect of you. The fashion industry has made many of us to believe that social status, wealth and well-being is expressed […] Continue reading →