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RE-PRESENTING TOM KUNDIG
We’re pleased to announce that Tom Kundig, who we profiled here several months ago, is the winner of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture. Facing off with formidable future-forward talents of Weiss/Manfredi and the industrial chic of Lo-Tek, Kundig’s graceful mechanics set in nature won out. As Mark Robbins, Dean of the Syracuse University School of Architecture ...
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CHRISTIAN WASSMANN’S SENSE OF PLACE
Helvetica Bold spent an afternoon with Wassmann, rummaging through his design philosophies, “I always do drawings for myself or write little manifestos that are not for publication but lead to something I try to share or have in my office culture—“
We thought we’d come up with a manifesto of sorts that reflect Christian Wassmann’s sense of place. -
Moon River: Toujours Toi Family Affairs Winter 2010 Collection
Toujours Toi Family Affairs presented it’s Winter 2010-11 Collection at the Swiss Institute, New York, during Fashion Week. Helvetica Bold was on hand to capture it.
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Nina Egli: Family Values
Helvetica Bold talks with Designer Nina Egli about the inspirations and process behind her Toujours Toi Family Affairs Winter Collection–Moon River.
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HOME COMING QUEENS: HEIMWEH BY SWISS MISS
Heimweh, the new album, by Swiss Miss, may be the concept album to end all concept albums. Created by New York based Swiss musician Eliane, the album brings together a dazzling variety of Swiss female vocalists performing renditions of traditional Swiss folk songs representing many geographic regions and dialects of Switzerland on a backdrop of ...
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ERIKA STUCKY: SUICIDAL YODELS
Much can be said about the life, travels and career path of Erika Stucky, but one can learn a great deal about the identity of this woman by simply listening to her album Suicidal Yodels. In the opening seconds of the first track the artist reveals herself to be a complex and well informed interpretive musician, incorporating ...
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CLOSER THAN FAR: SERENA JOST
For the opening track of her debut solo album, Closer Than Far , Swiss-American singer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Serena Jost performs a cover, Our Town by Iris DeMent. The juxtaposition of the driving rhythm and Serena’s lilting, melodic vocal delivery sets the tone for a collection of material filled with contrast, whilst referencing a theme which becomes recurrent ...
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CAPE OF ZURICH
Zurich’s best kept secret is its diversity. Like any other major European city, it is the crossroads, melting pot, meeting grounds for a plethora of world-travelers, nomads, emigrés, immigrants, bohemians, dissidents… Nowhere is this more apparent than Zurich Horn, the very tip of the City that juts out into the Lake. This riviera culture is ...
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SHOPPING INCENTIVE:3 DECADES OF COMMISSIONED SHOPPING BAGS FROM FOGAL
For almost thirty years, Fogal, Switzerland’s premier hosiery and lingerie luxury brand, has been in the habit of commissioning custom shopping bags from rising and established art world denizen…
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THE NEW STONE AGE
“…Zen students practice with their bow until it shoots on its own. Similar to them are monks and ballerinas and sometimes a special kind of skier…”