John Kestner

A leading interactive technologist uniting digital and physical design

Among the dystopian visions of a Matrix-style digital future, interaction designer John Kestner comes as a welcome voice, “enhancing the successful physical interfaces between humans and objects.” The graduate and research affiliate of M.I.T. Media Lab, along with fellow grad David Carr, runs Supermechanical, a studio devoted to relating old-world craftsmanship with modern technology, in essence, giving electronics some soul. “When each object has an …

Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade

Visionaire's latest, iPhone panoramas, the season's best foldable shades and more in this week's look at the web

A collection of photographs shot by designer Hedi Slimane, this new book (available 31 July 2011) includes images created “before, during and after his tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.”

Visionaire Issue 60: Religion

Visionaire's latest, iPhone panoramas, the season's best foldable shades and more in this week's look at the web

One of the first and most over-the-top publications to radically redefine the industry, Visionaire’s upcoming leather-bound edition takes up the heady topic of religion. The Fetish King, Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci, curated the 228-page album, which is available for preorder now.