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The Texture In Text : Discovering Milan Fashion Week’s most thoughtful design detail.
Milan Fashion Week’s quietest revolution wasn’t on the runway, it was in the type. From Bottega Veneta’s woven newspaper to Montblanc’s cinematic newsstand, typography became tactile, personal, and profoundly human, inviting us not just to read a brand, but to feel it.

TK Tennakoon
Oct 141 min read


The Art of Butter, Eggs, and Sugar: Food as the ultimate design material.
Food is among the most accessible design materials we have. Everyone eats, therefore everyone brings lived experience to creation. Hosting 'The Art of Butter, Eggs, and Sugar' workshop revealed how architects, writers, and painters approached baking through their creative lenses, proving food's unique power as both universal language and intimate interface.

TK Tennakoon
Sep 173 min read


Culinary Design | Over wild hills and far elsewhere.
A fruit-almond cake that doubles as an experiment in culinary design & poetic world-building.

TK Tennakoon
Apr 31 min read


Architecture | The house that wrote itself.
Philippe Starck's Maison Heler is a story made structure where architecture & fiction entwine to turn hospitality into living myth.

TK Tennakoon
Mar 301 min read


Creative Exploration | 'Artificial Reveries': Can poetry be the prompt that humanises A.I. art?
‘Artificial Reveries’ is an art series & experiment that seeks a creative collaboration between human feeling & machine intelligence.

TK Tennakoon
Aug 15, 20222 min read


Fashion | Sci-fi ritualism on show for Saint Laurent Spring Summer '23.
Straight out of the future, shimmering skies and monolithic marvels created a cinematic mise-en-scène for Saint Laurent's latest show.

TK Tennakoon
Jul 26, 20221 min read


Design | Prismatic Prints.
Verdant design and glistening gold foils are the flowering hallmarks of Made Thought’s newest work for emblematic paper maker G . F Smith.

TK Tennakoon
Jul 12, 20221 min read


Fashion | Get HermèsFit… where style meets stamina.
Hermès' latest LA-bound pop-up is a wondrous combination of colour, sport and luxury.

TK Tennakoon
Jul 7, 20221 min read


Entertainment | Strange New Worlds, gorgeous new visuals.
Atop the return to episodic, planet-hopping adventures, the televisual design of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' has got me *fascinated*.

TK Tennakoon
Apr 17, 20221 min read


Design | A Visual Study of space through the eyes of Felice Varini.
Discovering the sleight of hand and magic of spatial illusion through the work of Swiss artist Felice Varini.

TK Tennakoon
Dec 19, 20201 min read


Design | The Art of Aesthetic Enjoyment.
See how brands are getting creative with content, particularly in the wake of global industry events being cancelled.

TK Tennakoon
May 12, 20201 min read


Design | A 2020 Trend Watch in Website & CX Design.
As the world shifts into a new, digital-first normal, brands are waking up to the importance of CX design.

TK Tennakoon
May 7, 20203 min read


Advertising | Chanel Beauty makes AI alluring.
Read more on the strange & eclectic approach for stately Chanel - The personification of each shade in its new range as bold & beguiling AI.

TK Tennakoon
Sep 17, 20191 min read


Culture | New Words For New Beginnings.
I recently had the chance to travel to Istanbul for a client presentation. It would be the first time I'd be making the journey to the...

TK Tennakoon
Apr 28, 20192 min read


Design | Impromptu Iceland.
I was blown away by photographer Tec Petaja’s series starring the wild beauty of Iceland. Shot at Snaefellsbaer National Park quite by...

TK Tennakoon
Jun 26, 20181 min read


Design | Rimowa Revival.
I've always loved Rimowa - that gold standard in luxury luggage and bespoke travel. The iconic shape and crisp aluminium lines running...

TK Tennakoon
Feb 27, 20182 min read


Design | Minimalist Mantra.
'Minimum / Maximum' is a typed poem by Carl Andre, written in 1963. Andre was an American Minimal sculptor, whose work ranged from poetry...

TK Tennakoon
Feb 18, 20181 min read


Design Project Debrief | Awakening an urban beast.
A few weeks ago, I met with the folks at Nike to discuss a possibility of creating a custom pair of Air Force 1s. The result was a truly...

TK Tennakoon
Jan 27, 20182 min read


Style | Adidas pays tribute to the sole of Berlin.
The new Adidas trainers are probably the most Berlin thing I’ve come across, outside Berlin. They’re as quintessentially Berlin as...

TK Tennakoon
Jan 11, 20181 min read


Design & Style | Inside KM20 - 2017's Fashion Store Of The Year.
Stepping into KM 20, #2 Stoleshnikov Lane is stepping into retail revolution. The Moscow-based retailer’s incredible new flagship store...

TK Tennakoon
Jan 4, 20181 min read
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