Stories

  1. Read more: Morihata: a couple building a bridge between Japanese craft and the rest of the world
    Morihata: a couple building a bridge between Japanese craft and the rest of the world

    Morihata: a couple building a bridge between Japanese craft and the rest of the world

    Morihata was founded in 2005 by Yuka and Kaz Morihata, a wife-and-husband team who met as students at the Rhode Island School of Design and worked ...
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  2. Read more: Jo & Nic's: the cloth books that crinkle like tiny newspapers
    Jo & Nic's: the cloth books that crinkle like tiny newspapers

    Jo & Nic's: the cloth books that crinkle like tiny newspapers

    Jo & Nic's has been charming very small readers since 2018, with cloth books dreamed up and illustrated by Nicola Moore and Jo Joof. The format...
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  3. Read more: cut&make: a card and a gift, folded into one
    cut&make: a card and a gift, folded into one

    cut&make: a card and a gift, folded into one

    Most cards say something and stop there. A cut&make card does a little more: it arrives flat in an envelope and unfolds into an object. Send th...
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  4. Read more: BS Toys: the Dutch brand on a mission to get kids off the screen and into the wild
    BS Toys: the Dutch brand on a mission to get kids off the screen and into the wild

    BS Toys: the Dutch brand on a mission to get kids off the screen and into the wild

    BS Toys started life as BuitenSpeel - Dutch for "outdoor play" - founded in Haarlem in 2006 by Marcel Schagen. The first toy was a giant tower. The...
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  5. Read more: Sisi, house of style: handmade mugs with something to say
    Sisi, house of style: handmade mugs with something to say

    Sisi, house of style: handmade mugs with something to say

    Sisi, house of style is an Amsterdam-based ceramic brand by Slovenian designer Silvia Jerman, who works somewhere between Amsterdam and Ljubljana -...
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  6. Read more: Printworks: the Swedish joy of the analogue
    Printworks: the Swedish joy of the analogue

    Printworks: the Swedish joy of the analogue

    Printworks was founded in Stockholm in 2017 by Annette and Patrik, who left their advertising careers after noticing something: the more connected ...
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