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Listening to Lee Moon Sae brought someone back to mind
From “소녀” to “옛사랑,” follow the people and streets in Lee Moon Sae and Lee Young-hoon’s songs, then listen onward to “봄바람” and later work.
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Sashiko: the people behind each stitch
Atsushi Futatsuya shares sashiko through the people and culture behind the patterns. We look at the rhythm of stitching and the process of making together.
A walk across the roof of Oslo Opera House
The sloping roof of Oslo Opera House is somewhere people can walk. Snøhetta’s design makes a route through the city part of a performance venue.
A pencil cap that becomes a sharpener and extender
The Perfect Pencil’s protective cap contains a sharpener and doubles as an extender while writing. Its small parts bring writing, sharpening and erasing together.
The museum pen that let visitors save objects to revisit
Cooper Hewitt used The Pen from 2015 to 2020 to let visitors collect exhibit information. We revisit a tool that carried an exhibition beyond the museum visit.
The Hive turns activity in a beehive into light and sound
At London’s Kew Gardens, The Hive responds to vibrations detected in a real beehive, bringing the activity of a bee colony into a space people can enter.
How the octagonal Moka Express makes coffee
The Moka Express combines a lower water chamber, a coffee basket and an upper collector. We look at the flow of water and the daily routine behind a design dating to 1933.
How Fiskars scissors came to have orange handles
Orange was not the original plan for Fiskars’ 1967 scissors. A choice made while producing prototypes became the colour of a familiar tool.
Sugru: adhesive you can shape by hand
Sugru is moulded by hand before it cures into silicone rubber. Beyond bonding a gap, it lets people add a small shape a familiar object needs.