In Cardboard and Gold, Narsiso Martinez Highlights the Workers of American Agriculture

Americans are uniquely disconnected from our food. More than 10 percent of the working population is employed in agricultural sectors, but it’s rare for the average person to grapple with—let alone witness—the number of people involved in growing, harvesting, packaging, and ultimately getting dinner onto their plate. Given that many farms, restaurants, and other food-related businesses employ those who are undocumented, these sectors have also been targeted for deportation, further pushing the people who keep them running into the shadows.

For Narsiso Martinez, this essential labor has long been the central point of his practice. The Oaxaca-born artist is known for...

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Hay and Jasper Morrison collaborate on "useful and characterful" camping collection

British designer Jasper Morrison and design brand Hay have collaborated on a collection of over more 30 objects designed for camping, styled with nautical striped fabrics informed by samples Morrison found in Majorca and the Pyrenees.

Hay co-founder Rolf Hay said the brand worked with Morrison's London-based Jasper Morrison Shop to create the Outdoor Market collection, which includes foldable lounge chairs, a fish-shaped BBQ, and a tent-shaped canopy.

The collaborators launched it at the MoMA Design Store in New York City this week.

Morrison, who had already been producing some of the...

Inaugural Montreal Design Week set to "energize the city" in April

Organisers in Montreal, Canada, have announced the first-ever dedicated design week for the city, including a trade show, conference and activities across a network of galleries and studios.

On the 20th anniversary of it being named a UNESCO City of Design, Montreal will launch its first-ever design week in late April to consolidate various ongoing trade fairs and events under one banner.

It will be centred around the 20-year-old Index-Design Show (formerly Complètement Design) trade fair, which takes place over one day at the Grand Quay at the Port of Montreal.

The fair will be expanded into the city, incorporating a broad array...

Johan Siggesson’s Striking Portraits of ‘Big Tuskers’ in Kenya

Among African elephants, “Big Tuskers” refers to bulls that grow tusks so long they sometimes scrape the ground. Each one can weigh well over 100 pounds. These giant, ivory incisors continually grow throughout an elephant’s life, and males typically have much larger tusks than females.

The bigger the tusks, however, the more vulnerable these gentle giants are to poachers who harvest and traffic the ivory for trade. There are only a couple dozen left in nature preserves like Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park and Amboseli National Park.

For wilderness photographer Johan Siggesson, a fascination with animals and their habitats led to...

"The proposed White House ballroom is wholly incompatible with the site"

Opposition to Donald Trump's White House expansion plans has focused on the building itself but the implications for the grounds are just as egregious, writes Charles A Birnbaum.

The debate about the proposed White House ballroom has prompted questions about stewardship of the nation's most important cultural patrimony. But it also illustrates how landscape architecture has been ignored, and how principled regulatory processes have been twisted into a performative auto-da-fé.

On October 15, 2025, as reported in The New York Times, president Donald Trump told a group of supporters: "We started with a much smaller building, and then I realized, we have the...

Fantastic World of Fruits X DARBO

I was asked by DMB to illustrate 4 fantastic scenes set in a fantastic world of fruits x Darbo; print and OOH campaign 2024-2025

A Modern Design Update for Mooring Bollards

The mooring bollard is a classic piece of form-follows-function. Mounted to docks for the sole purpose of mooring boats, these heavy cast-iron structures are shaped so that ropes cannot slip off of their tops.

Now Hungarian industrial designer Adam Miklosi has upgraded the mooring bollard with both a clean, modern form, and an unexpected feature: Light.

Rediscover a Rembrandt After More than Six Decades in Hiding

In 1898, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum staged an exhibition of paintings by renowned Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt (1606-1669). Included in this show was a 23-by-19-inch oil painting titled “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple,” which was completed in 1633, relatively early in the artist’s career. Fast-forward to 1960, and the work was deemed to have not actually been made by Rembrandt. Despite that in the past it had been catalogued as part of his oeuvre, that was no longer the case. So, a private collector purchased it in 1961, from which point on, it remained out of sight—until now.

Experts and...

Core77 Design Awards 2026: Yuko Takagi on Design That Resonates at Scale

Yuko Takagi finds her greatest satisfaction when complexity gives way to clarity. "I'm most excited when a complex challenge becomes a clear, meaningful design solution," she says. "Seeing that idea improve sales or resonate with consumers is incredibly rewarding."

As Design Manager at The Coca-Cola Company, Yuko operates in the high-stakes world of FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods), where design decisions ripple out at massive scale. "Small decisions can impact millions," she notes, "so finding simple, human-centered clarity in the process is what drives me."

Based in Tokyo, Yuko specializes in brand development, package design, and visual identity—bringing brands...