As an artist, I know that my upbringing, my influences, and things I’m exposed to all play a part in the way my characters look. Even if said character is a 70-year old Japanese woman missing an eyeball working as a baker on a lonesome island off the coast of Zanzibar, a part of me will still find its way into the character’s design, not only as far as the more intangible traits gop...

The Biblioteca Parque España, designed by the architect Giancarlo Mazzanti, stands in its rock-like trio form on the edge of a hill overlooking Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia. Mazzanti’s biophilic design in such a setting provides visitors to the library with a beautiful vista onto below while offering the residents of the city down the hill a natural and contextual backdrop...

Since the first video game came out back in the early fifties, video game makers have sought to create more and more realistic gaming experiences. The motivation can be simple as increasing sales and adding fun to our lives, or to come up with a way of immortalizing the human specie. A way to give us life, after life, after life, with no game overs, no deaths, no graves, and no one to excavate those graves after thousands of years, to ask how we lived, because we never died. ....

How did these three designers come up with this social interactive event? “Pure desperation really,” according to Ganzeer’s Mohammed Fahmy. With their boo-th at December’s SOS Music Festival in Cairo still empty the night before the festival and a product line of clothes and accessories stalled in production, they sat around bouncing ideas off each until this one stuck

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