ERDEM AKAN: WHERE DESIGN TALKS ACTIVISM
Like his home city Istanbul, where thoroughly modern ideas and traditional practices exist side-by-side, Erdem’s philosophy is based on the tension between opp...
EVOLUTION
OKHTEIN: THE YIN AND YANG DUO OF FASHION
Egyptian design duo siblings Aya and Mounaz Abdelraouf launched their brand Okhtein – meaning, appropriately, "sisters" in Arabic – because of their vision to ...
REFORM STUDIO: DESIGN FOR A CAUSE
Founded in Cairo, in 2012 by Hend Riad & Mariam Hazem, two recent graduates, Reform evolved into an internationally awarded lifestyle brand. Its main goal ...
RUMISU: USING SILK AS A DRAWING CANVAS
Turkish sisters Pinar Yeğin and Deniz Yeğin İkiışık are the creative minds behind Rumisu, a joint design project that invites everyone into their “whimsical wo...
RANA EL KALIOUBY: AI VS AFFECTIVA
Rana el Kaliouby is a woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male and a successful entrepreneur that left Egypt for Cambridge, UK an...
ALEXANDRA HAKIM: TRANSFORMING JEWELRY IN TOKENS OF INCLUSIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
In a world of consumerism, Alexandra Hakim has managed to make a name for herself as a leader of innovation, transforming found objects and used materials dir...