Backpacks and duffel bags used to be boring. When David BenDavid was a fresh graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York in the early 2000s, the mundaneness of these items struck him as he ...

In our digital era of immediate gratification, the art maker is often encouraged to create art hastily. Maintaining an audience’s attention is prioritized over the actual quality of the work. In that ...

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Fuma Terai is not a Lego designer. Based in Japan, he is far away from Billund, the small Danish town where all the company’s official design work happens. And yet, Terai is responsible for one of ...