Posts by Damian Santamaria

Knitwear Revolution

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Fashion
Sublime: What got you into sustainable fashion design?Kate Morris: I originally trained as a fine artist with a hobby of hand knitting alongside. My creative drive shifted into wanting to…

Design To Improve Life

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Art & Culture

We’re in a world of trouble — design can save us! The Index Award biennale celebrates people, from far and wide, using design to solve the problems that matter — what we call Design to Improve Life. Since 2005, they recognised some of the world’s most impactful and iconic solutions. From tiny tools that diagnose disease to environmental moonshots saving our most vulnerable ecosystems.

Fashion Forward

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Fashion
Sublime: What inspired you to create an ethical and sustainable clothing brand? Malaika Haaning: A little bit of everything, I guess. Sustainability has always been important to me, in every…

Design for Life

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Art & Culture

Achieving better, lasting, and more meaningful ways of living is unlikely to result from grand schemes and masterplans that impose the will of ruling elites on ordinary people, be it political, corporate or religious.

The New Cool

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Fashion
Changing the world is not a one-person job, yet, it can be done with one person at a time. Dulce Salerno believe that, in order for people to learn to…

An OX in Every Village

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Art & Culture
The OX has been designed specifically to tackle a host of transport challenges, and to undertake crucial daily tasks, such as collect drinking water and transporting grain, fertilizer or building…

Paris Climate Festival 2015 ArtCOP21

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Art & Culture
Climate is culture. What is required is the active engagement of citizens worldwide in the urgency, value and opportunities of a transition away from fossil fuels and the embracing of a greener, sustainable…
Broken cats, Winner 2015 The Wildlife Photojournalist Award by Britta Jaschinski

Broken Cats

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Environment
Locked into obedience by their trainers’ gaze, big cats perform at the Seven Star Park in Guilin, China. They have had their teeth and claws pulled out, and when not…

Freedom for Nothing?

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Lifestyle
Our culture is based on the exclusion of idealism: we’ve convinced ourselves that the greatest ideal is not to have any, and by doing so we are in danger of…