Magazine about new and unusual design, showing fabulous stories about the life of ordinary and often anonymous design objects. Each biannual edition takes an object and explores the multiple stories it generates. Like Macgaffins in Hitchcock movies, these things are not the main characters, but the devices that start the story.

From the apartheid wall in Palestine to the digital payment wall, from the commemorative murals in Jamaica to the increasingly high glass facades of modern office buildings, the walls testify to the tumult of history and the incessant need of humanity to communicate and sow division. They force us to reflect on the paradoxes of openness and isolation, confinement and exclusion. In a world drowned on borders, barriers and spike wire fences, this Macgaffin number stops to reflect and asks: What exactly is what we want to express or protect? And why?

216 pages

27.5 × 21 cm

English

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