Jan 1, 2018

2018 🔪 Reduce

By Joachim Baan • Issue #20 • View online

Nº20 to start the new year with. Last few months were quite busy at …,staat so I didn’t had much time to focus on the newsletter but here we are: On the first day of the new year!

Lets start with the newyears resolution. In line with the one from last years (less but better, and more love, less fear) we got inspired (again) by John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity with rule nº1: Reduce. Reduce the noise, the fakeness, the copycats, the hate and the overload of basically everything (content, merch, over-hyped brands and people and populism to name just a random few). Lets focus on what is good, on the things that really really matter, on the things that can bring us the positive change we need, by reducing all the clutter and turmoil. Reduce.

🌍 Another Something 🌏

2017 — 2018

It is time to look back on a year in which a long list of new chapters were opened within the worlds of …,staat and NewWerktheater; New Amsterdam and of course Another Something — which sums up the core of all of our individual activities. Despite the undeniable fact that a complete new horizon has risen for the both of us in the last twelve months, bringing a totally renewed field of demands and focus points, it still feels like a year in which we have gotten closer to the place where we would like to be at most. A place where we are both able to do what we do best. More-so, it was also a year in which we were reminded urgently to not take anything for granted, which we’ll keep in the back of our heads from this particular moment on. Go here for our favourites of 2017 >

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Aesthetic Memories - Another Something

As one of the last features of 2017 we shared this special project we did at NewWerktheater. Paralel to our collaboration of last month with Lennard Kok, the Fallen Bird, we’ve been busy in our other role at NewWerktheater and …,staat to work on another collaboration we’re extremely excited about; Jupe by Jackie x …,staat. Continue reading here >

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Prismverse - Another Something

Chris Cheung, creative director of the Hong Kong-based interdisciplinary creative studio XEX, reached out to us to share his latest art installation called ‘Prismverse’. An immersive audiovisual installation to define a new dimension of light. As the title of the installation unveils it capture two core ideas; A prism as the medium that translates light on one hand, and a verse as the multi-timespace dimension. Continue reading here >

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Jurgi Persoons in our Another Something interview

🔀 Random beauty 🔍

Outsider

A good friend of mine started the Outsider. A newsletter on ‘a radical approach to brand behaviour, an insider advice for the confused, a direction in the form of a slap in the face, what nobody else is telling you’, basically on everything relevant TODAY. It’s one of those newsletters that are a must read, every week. So visit outsider.works and subscribe.

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The Holy Bible, crystallized. By Alexis Arnold.

Alexis Arnold

This is something so damn nice! The Crystallized Book Series addresses the materiality versus the text or content of a book. The crystals remove the text and solidify the books into aesthetic, non-functional objects. The books, frozen with crystal growth, have become artifacts or geologic specimens imbued with the history of time, use, and memory.

Alexis Arnold is a San Francisco-based artist whose sculptures, installations, and mixed media 2-D art focus on material, transformation, and perception.

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WARDROBE.NYC

Christine Centenera Josh Goot Launch WARDROBE.NYC

Quite an interesting and new take on fashion and retail; at Wardrobe NYC the pieces must must be purchased as a set (you have the option of buying an eight-piece or four-piece set). So you’re done in one buy.

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JJJJound's Bassi B/01

How JJJJound went from tumblr sensation to real life design studio

Justin Saunders, aka JJJJound had a productive last months of 2017 with the launch of this beautiful bike (and more, read below). Saunders on his way of working: ‘I think the 888 concept is probably my own personal projection. It’s the greatest reminder of balance that I’ve come across. When you are devoted and passionate about your craft and your work you quickly forget to disconnect. This 888 math reminds me to keep my 24 hour days stabilized. I did find a hack—I realized I can do 16 hour shifts since work and play are the same for me.’ Read the hole thing on GQ

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📘 A few things you should read 📑

Dezeen: Muji is not just about minimalism and simplicity, says art director Kenya Hara.

The end of the social era can’t come soon enough acording to Vanity Fair
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Seth Godin on why you should take time to read at work
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Inc.com shared this interesting story on Collaboration (Spoiler allert: It happend to kill creativity)
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This is just stunning: The Blade Runner 2049 Miniature City
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The future of retail in the age of Amazon - on Fastcompany.
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Jocelyn K. Glei on ‘Why you need “white space” in your daily routine’
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The psychology behind why we value physical objects over digital, on Research Digest

💶 And a few things you should get 💳

These perfect sneakers by JJJJound and Victory Sportwear.
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Europe got an unofficial souvenir store: Eurotic!
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For Abel we made this super nice Discovery Set so you can have them all in one to test and discover. Enjoy!
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The ruler that rules them all!
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This book on Post-Truth: How bullshit conquered the world by James Ball
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And this book…! The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook on IDEA