New York-based Filipino industrial designer Stanley Ruiz has an affinity for combining traditional craft techniques with contemporary design aesthetics, producing cleverly reinterpreted objects which display both foreign and familiar qualities.
In the suburbs of Tokyo there is a designer quietly working his way to international prominence. inside co-editor Jan Henderson visited the studio of Jin Kuramoto to speak to the man who is challenging design boundaries.
The Dog Room is a collaboration between Pen (Australian-based product design brand) and Melbourne-based architect Michael Ong (MODO, Michael Ong Design Office).
"I have to work with Ikea," said the brazen rapper and fashion designer this week. "With furniture, with interior design, with architecture. Yo, IKEA, allow Kanye to create!"
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