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Best of 2021: Our Top 10 Interiors of the Year

Azure Magazine

This year, the path to opening a new restaurant, hotel, or retail shop proved anything but straightforward, with the unpredictability of the ongoing pandemic introducing plenty of twists and turns. Since Ace Hotel’s first outpost opened in Seattle in 1999, the boutique chain has reinvigorated the communal side of travel.

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MN Is Leading an Electric New Era of Restaurant Design

Azure Magazine

In a field presided over by a disproportionate number of white men, MN represents a refreshing alternative. MN’s first hospitality project, Kappo Masa, features wood-wrapped yellow leather banquettes and art from the collection of restaurant co-owner Larry Gagosian. ” Photo by Adrian Gaut. –. Photo by Naho Kubota.

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(Almost) Never Demolish: Reviving Social Housing Through Preservation

Azure Magazine

In the foreground, the last of the area’s remaining mid-century social housing fans out in a repeating grid. PHOTO: James Brittain. James Brittain. James Brittain. James Brittain. PHOTO: James Brittain. The camera pans over a neighbourhood framed by Toronto’s skyline. PHOTO: Max Yuristy.

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Top 10 Typography Artists Worth Following

Inkbot Design

He is, however, best known in the typographic world for his striking, large-scale paintings of black-stencilled type on white canvas backgrounds. These pieces often have phrases with the words abbreviated, disrupted and in a grid format, making it slightly more difficult for the viewer to perceive and make sense of the piece as a whole.

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Tré Seals wants to diversify design through typography

Design Week

designers in America are Black, while around 85% of them are white. “So I tried to figure out a way to introduce a non-stereotypical piece of minority culture into the design itself, starting with the basis of any good design – typography.” “There’s a humanity to them,” Seals says.