The start-up manual for creative entrepreneurs

Attitudes to how and where we work have been on a generational change driven by technological advancements, but this shift is likely to pick up pace in a post-pandemic environment. The 9-to-5 office routine is failing and falling out of fashion, the universal one-size-fits-all model of yesteryear is being ushered to the exit in favor of more dynamic styles driven by personal fulfillment. Alongside Courier, we explore the new era of entrepreneurs and today’s progressive start-up culture.

Work Better. Live Smarter. Be Happier. captures the changing face of creative culture around the world and…

For the many, not the few

The city can be a place of promise: community, jobs, services, education, health care, endless dining options, and opportunities for social and cultural activities. For many, the city lives up to this potential. But many others are still left out of this equation.

Every single day, 1.5 million people around the world move into urban areas. Some of those new citizens cannot afford to live close to opportunities and therefore find themselves pushed to the urban fringe, far from schools, jobs, and services-or even electricity and sanitation. In major cities around the world, even…

Libération: The Art of Everyday Rebellion

Libération is an iconic newspaper launched in 1973 by a group inspired by the revolutionary spirit of Paris in 1968. The vision of its founders, which included Jean-Paul Sartre, was of a newspaper owned by its workers and committed to journalistic integrity. Taking its name from a 1941 French Resistance newspaper with ties to the Communist Party, which closed in 1964, the new daily maintained independence from any party while espousing its leftist, socially progressive position.

For the first eight years, the paper did not sell any advertising space, making its money solely from…

Rising ranks and challenging stereotypes that are decades-old

Badal Patel was halfway to becoming a Biochemistry graduate when she had a moment of reckoning, knowing that she had been lying to herself about which career path she ought to follow. In a moment of shock to her Indian-American family, she mustered up the courage to tell them that she wanted to become a graphic designer.

Patel was a high-energy teenager always looking for something to create. “You could find me creating wooden boats out of fallen branches in the backyard, sewing my purses, or taking ‘artsy’ photos on my camera…

The motions of Mason London

A sleepy bulldog is lightly snoring against the hazy backdrop of a summery day as its animated owner tosses scrunched balled-up sketches into a basketball hoop-Joe Prytherch is a designer whose work appears to have no bounds, with each of his depictions as atmospheric and evocative as the last.

Whether a music-fused animation for Kamaal Williams that magnetically transports you into the heart of a neon-lit Peckham or a set of World Cup host cards that poetically captures the ubiquity of the event’s multiculturalism, Prytherch’s Lo-Fi designs visualize every detail you can imagine and also…

Remembering the architectural visionary and expressive forms of Walter Förderer

Arising ruthlessly from the mountainous formations of the Swiss Alps is a cascade of concrete which Walter Maria Förderer considered one of his greatest architectural accomplishments. St. Nicolas Church is a modernist vision and remarkable architectural statement that leaves the public in awe, whether viewing from the facade or interior.

Born on March 21, 1928, Förderer was one of Switzerland’s most iconic architects and a formidable sculptor who envisioned an avant-garde fate for the religious buildings of his homeland and in Germany. In 1946, an earthquake severely damaged the Swiss…

Rising ranks and challenging stereotypes that are decades-old

Badal Patel was halfway to becoming a Biochemistry graduate when she had a moment of reckoning, knowing that she had been lying to herself about which career path she ought to follow. In a moment of shock to her Indian-American family, she mustered up the courage to tell them that she wanted to become a graphic designer.

Patel was a high-energy teenager always looking for something to create. “You could find me creating wooden boats out of fallen branches in the backyard, sewing my purses, or taking ‘artsy’ photos on my camera…

In the first of a two-part installment, Yoko Choy interviews one of China’s most fascinating architects

At the turn of the millennium, a new wave of studios focused on modern vernacular architecture began to emerge in China. This shift presented a return to localism and valued design tied to cultural tradition. Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Wang Shu has been at the forefront of this movement since founding Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997 with his wife, Lu Wenyu. …