Ahmed Emad and the Path of Desire

A desire path is an unofficial route formed when people choose the shortest, most instinctive way between two points, favouring lived experience over prescribed design. It is a path made by repetition, conviction, and quiet resistance. Based between Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, Ahmed Emad’s journey follows a similar logic. A Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate, former museum educator at Louvre Abu Dhabi, he is currently the Public Programming Specialist at the highly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

SLOP IS THAT DEEP

Do you sense that you live in a world that literally makes no fucking sense?

Hidden, Stolen, and Abandoned

There is no power without control of memory

The Untold Realms of Samo Shalaby

The Palestinian-Egyptian surrealist is not one to be defined by style, genre or medium, and certainly won’t be confined by censorship. He’s a storyteller who annotates his imagination through paintings, sculpture, film and photography to bridge the realms of reality and fantasy

Jordan Gogos Refuses To Be Defined Even As He Redefines How We View Fashion

A merger of art, furniture and fashion design puts the 29-year-old creative in an unboxable box

AFW: Iordanes Spyridon Gogos Concocts His Own Greek Tragedy With ‘The Woven Trojan Horse’

Unlike the song, this horse has a name and it’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Jordan, thank you for the music

Maverick: How LaKeith Stanfield Became The Patron Saint Of Subversive Style

Performer, singer, style icon – LaKeith Stanfield is that rare kind of artist, one whose every gesture and action is a considered act of expression. ICON sat down with the multi-hyphenate performer to discuss how everything from music to fashion provides a medium for creative output