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New York based photographer Ben Zank is a young gun making work that really excites us right now. He first picked up a camera at age 18, using a Pentax ME Super that his grandmother gave him. He’s since moved onto digital, using his DSLR, a remote interval timer and a model. His portraits, which either use models or himself, often exude a sense of melancholy surrealism, and a touch of humour too.

Even though almost all of his shots involve a single person, he rarely shows a face. This keeps the models neutral, using...

Hanna Päivikki Konola is a Finnish designer and illustrator who has stolen our hearts with her dreamy, joyous compositions. Living and working in Helsinki, she has spent some solid time cutting her teeth in university programs in Finland and abroad, having spent study stints in Helsinki, Norway and even Tokyo! Dividing her time between commercial projects and her personal art practice, she lends her positive and joyous work to textiles, products, packaging and editorial clients all over the world.

Her inspiration comes from everything that surrounds her, drawing on experiences, thoughts and feelings of...

Tessy King is an emerging star in a new wave of young ceramicists, bubbling and baking away in Australia right now. If you’ve found yourself wandering through ceramics purveyors Mr Kitly, Guild of Objects or Craft Victoria in Melbourne at any time in the last couple of years, we’d say you’ve definitely encountered Tessy’s work before. Her signature trophy vessels are an instantly recognisable; tall, pot-bellied, surging and wobbling up with ramshackle handles and matte glazes.

Originally from a small town in northern New South Wales, she moved to Melbourne in 2011 to study jewellery...

Clara von Zweigbergk is a Stockholm-based multidisciplinary designer who definitely knows how to aesthetically rub us the right way. With a style that is clean and contemporary, she is so quintessentially Swedish in her sense of simplicity, beauty, balance and colour.

Interested in design from an early age, her first steps into the creative world were as an assistant in an advertising agency in Sweden. From there, she studied graphic design at Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm, before gravitating over to Art Centre College of Design in the USA. Working in graphic design for studios...

Erik Mowinckel is a Norwegian photographer, creeping around the streets of Oslo and taking photos of the little moments nobody else notices. He grew up in suburbia outside of Oslo, and started taking pictures as a teenager, borrowing his parents camera. It all started with taking photos of a friend around his neighbourhood, in spaces that he felt were beautiful. He started discovering the influence of icons like Eggleston, Meyerowitz and Ghirri, and eventually acquired his own analogue camera to continue his explorations and experiments.

Erik continues to work in this meandering, spontaneous way of...