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The Date Palm Had One More Thing to Give, and Datecrete Has a Seoul Design Award Prize to Prove It
A stubborn little seed, an unlikely experiment and years of material research. Datecrete Studio & Lab challenges what we consider waste and what we imagine architecture could become
HinDidi: When Bollywood Invited Algeria to Dance
In the aftermath of independence, Bollywood offered Algeria something revolution could not: the freedom to dream, to love, and to imagine a life beyond struggle. Decades later, one Indian film, Janitou, remains a tender relic of a future that never quite arrived
Ugliness Looks Back
From a 1960s Iranian leper colony to Kim Kardashian's surgeon, tracing how "ugly" became a diagnosis to be cured rather than a way of being seen
At SeeDjerba, the Tunisian Island Becomes the Gallery
At its 2026 edition, See Djerba turned a Tunisian island's fortresses, shrines and craft villages into a gallery that asks you to look at the place as closely as the art
A Language Of Image: From Manuscripts To Meta-Algorithms
From Islamic manuscripts to Blender renders, the image of the Arabic language has always been built from overlapping histories and references. The designers pushing it forward today are proving that visual history is most useful when it becomes a tool for invention rather than nostalgia, and that the archive is not a repository of finished answers
Sauvage Extrait is Francis Kurkdjian’s Boldest Chapter Yet for Dior
Dior's first extrait de parfum for men