Looking out onto the usually congested Canal Street (originally named for a paved-over sewage “canal” in 1814) is the headquarters of a design and media content firm called Sunday Afternoon. Co-founded by partners Juan Carlos… Read More »The Daily Heller: Canal, Street, Neighborhood and Magazine
For the last 20 years, photographer Seymour Licht has been taking pictures of costumed Halloween revellers on the New York subway. Now, the choicest snaps have been gathered together in his new book, Halloween Underground,… Read More »Seymour Licht’s photos of subway Halloween costumes are a time capsule of terror
All photos of the collection taken by Benjamin Helle. France-based multidisciplinary creative Miki Lowe has collaborated with sustainable furniture designers Babel Brune to make two new capsule collections. We caught up with her to learn… Read More »Miki Lowe’s drawings become stunning furniture in new Babel Brune collections
Fair warning: incredible food porn (and some not-so-incredible food puns) ahead! As a former New Yorker who aches for the city’s global food discourse, I devoured this cookbook. I’ve always loved cookbooks, but I rarely… Read More »“Made Here” is a Love Letter to NYC’s Asian Communities
What does it look like working at a legacy newspaper in 2023? Martina Ibañez-Baldor of the LA Times can tell us. Ibañez-Baldor has been working at the heralded publication for eight years, cutting her teeth by designing on the… Read More »Martina Ibañez-Baldor of the LA Times Helps Launch New Latinidad Platform, De Los
In 2008 I wrote about artist and designer Julian Montague’s comprehensive taxonomy of The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America, an incomparable documentation of this common fixture of the urban landscape that “helps us… Read More »The Daily Heller: The Abandoned American Shopping Cart