Design Indaba 2016: Interview With Jaime Hayon

Our 4AM conversation with the award-winning designer at this year's event

It’s four o’clock in the morning and Jaime Hayon is still going full speed, sitting on a couch in Cape Town, candidly telling us about the time he tattooed one of the world’s top tattoo artists. Had he ever inked somebody before? Nope, and he never did again. While the 42-year-old, Valencia, Spain-based “creative guy” didn’t proceed to make ink-on-skin one of his regular artistic …

Entler’s Two- and Three-Headed Lamps

The LA-based ceramic design studio fires personality into lighting fixtures

First impressions of Entler’s cast stoneware lamps: organic and weird, yet completely charming. The curved necks evoke a curious creature (or maybe even modern-day humans, craning over our phones) and the Shorty Lamp goes one step further to resemble a demure version of Pixar’s bouncy, ebullient Luxo Jr. The two- and three-headed lamps, however, are our favorites—especially those that hang from the ceiling—channeling a little …

St Vincent Designs a Guitar

St Vincent (aka Annie Clark) is set to release her own signature guitar with Ernie Ball Music Man, which she designed from scratch. Along with it channeling her own aesthetic, the retro-feel instrument has also been designed with “room for a breast or two,” as she noted on her Instagram account. In this interview with Guitar World, the singer-songwriter explains the need for a lightweight …