Introduced by architect and artist Yukinori Maeda in 1997, Cosmic Wonder is a Japanese art organisation exploring the concepts of light and universal love through three independent projects: COSMIC WONDER art project, COSMIC WONDER Light Source fashion project and COSMIC WONDER FREE PRESS book project with the Zurich publishing house Nieves. …(more)
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Science Poems
Everyday light – Cosmic Wonder talks about spiritual science
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Home-Work-Home
Small, small, small – Noriko Daishima’s home in Shanghai is also a café and a shop
Articles Series: Home-Work-Home / 01-04-2010Designer Noriko Daishima runs a small shop, café and creative studio in her home in Shanghai. Located in the French Concession, on Xingguo Lu, she calls her place Le Petit Xiaoxiao (small, small, small) and keeps it open for friends and their friends during the weekends. Last Saturday, we visited Noriko for a chat and green tea. …(more)
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Strategies of Participation
Mr. Children – a project with Daniel Palillo
Projects Series: Strategies of Participation / 23-03-2010Mr. Children project brings together children and professionals in the context of fashion. It explores the idea of children as head designers and adults as assistants and consumers. …(more)
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Making Places
Dressing up Helsinki
Articles Series: Making Places / 01-03-2010On the occasion of We Are Helsinki magazine’s style issue, we set out to explore how artists and designers can affect the style of a city. “With spontaneity and magic”, say designer and artist Nene Tsuboi and fashion designer Daniel Palillo. …(more)
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Making Places
Mail from BLESS – Paris and Berlin
Articles Series: Making Places / 18-10-2009Dispersed in Paris and Berlin, Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss of the conceptual fashion label BLESS always talk about their work together. We learned this when we asked to interview both of them face to face, yet separately, with the same questions, since Jenna happened to be in Berlin and Anni in Paris at the time. Their kind refusal was explained by the fact that BLESS is something between the two, and therefore they don’t do interviews alone. So, we ended up in an email conversation with the twosome on the issues of identity and privacy as well as working together from two different cities. …(more)