Born in the United States and raised in Korea, Detroit-based Nina Cho's work embraces her Korean heritage, and adopts the aesthetic of emptiness for users to explore.
Check out our quick Q+A with Nina below.
In this edition of “Designers we love,” we chat career transitions, and representation of black artists and designers with publishing Creative Director-turned-full-time-artist, Lisa Hunt.
After 20 years, Malene Barnett is finally having her moment. Thanks to the persistent work of advocates like Malene, mainstream design and art culture is becoming more attuned to who’s left out of the conversation.
In our first “Designers we love” spotlight, we feature Mimi Shodeinde of Miminat Designs — a London-based product and interior architecture studio that produces functional art pieces with strong underlying African heritage influences.
Whether you’re gifting for the art lover, the design nerd, or the millennial in your life, we found you 10 perfect gifts for the person with an eye for the well-designed.
Michelle Millar Fisher, curator and architecture and design historian, talks with former MoMA colleague Arièle Dionne-Krosnick about navigating the power balance of museums, why design matters, and how institutes affect the way we see our world.
Jillian Choi and Alyse Archer-Coité (A/D/O) discuss their side-hustle sisterhood, navigating the design industry, and the power of influence.
Major #creacrush Malene Barnett sits down with Architectural Digest to discuss Black Artists + Designers Guild, an online directory of black creatives in media ranging from interior to textile to product design and fine arts and why it’s creation was necessary in the first place.
Design Milk compiled a list of 10 favorites from this year’s Design Miami.
In a new collaboration with the fashion label Phelan, Katie’s “large-scale ceramic nudes that seemingly walked out of a salty claymation” come alive in a shoot with Rebekah Campbell.
Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires upends and overturns familiar representations and monolithic notions of Black women today.
This exhibition, developed in a creative partnership between the AGO and the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, presents a bold new collection of Thomas’s vibrant, colourful and provocative paintings, silkscreens, photographs, time-based media and site-specific installations exploring how Black women are represented in art and popular culture.