An easy photoshop work, but an interesting idea for this ‘Transparency’ series by artist/photographer Khristian Mendoza. READ MORE

Facebook recently moved their offices out of several smaller locations spread throughout Palo Alto, CA and into one central, 150,000-square-foot building that used to house Agilent Technologies. The space was designed by studio o+a who took time to interview employees to see what they wanted and what would make their work experience better and more productive.

Employees collaborated with designers throughout the entire process to ensure the best product possible. Because of the differing departmental needs, small neighborhoods within the building were created giving each department its own unique flavor and vibe.

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Bijoux, Barbara Bui’s new silver jewelry collection, embraces the French designer’s androgynous, rocker chic sensibility with complementary, mix-and-max multi-strand necklaces, chain bracelets and rings. The all-silver set walks a sexy line between masculine and feminine, featuring chains and snakes to represent danger, power, and temptation, along with unmistakably feminine, small, emerald stones. Pretty and powerful: signature Ms. Bui!

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The latest Tokujin Yoshioka installation for Maison Hermes in Tokyo is the opposite of typical overstuffed Christmas holiday display, clean and pure aesthetic… love it !

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The New York Times’ Style Magazine’s face-lifted site launched today and includes a mens fashion story by photographer Matthew Brookes. “The Brothers Grim” recalls when men wore topcoats and top hats, saying: “They will again.”  Brookes is a fashion and portrait photographer whose usual aesthetic is lighter than this midsummer night’s dream (or drama).

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Max Richter : On the Nature of Daylight

There is a reason a genre by the name of ‘classical’ exists; it sincerely is music classic in nature, indisputably relevant and engaging within and beyond all eras. Max Richter‘s The Blue Notebooks, though said to muse over “the impermanent nature of things,” ironically is a permanent fixture in one’s musical memory. One of those rare albums that allow one to hit play and the mere thought of skipping a track never crosses the mind. The album in its entirely is beautiful through and through, telling a seemingly personalized and different story at each listen. Throughout this masterpiece [which feels like a soundtrack to a tragic love film] Tilda Swinton slides in every now and then narrating excerpts of Kafka and Milosz. In particular, the second track ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ takes one on a journey of their own choice if they only close their eyes and not only hear but listen to the gradual and graceful collision of strings. The song can bring about a plethora of dream-like emotions; melancholy to jubilant, wintry to romantic. In any event, depending on a person’s particular circumstance at the time of listening, the haunting passion of Richter’s composition shows through ever so clearly.

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