“You have jobs where you’re treated with dignity and respect, you get good payment, you get good benefits, but you secretly labor under the knowledge that your job, your work, is entirely useless.” David Graeber, The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
This winter, artist JORDAN WOLFSON opened up his psyche – and his upstate country home – for 032c. In conversation with executive editor Thom Bettridge for 032c Issue 33 Winter 2017/18, Wolfson discussed the Faustian bargains he made at Bikram yoga class and the virtual reality film that sent a wave of horror through the culture industry. More
One recent Tuesday we celebrated the opening of the 032c Street Market with a cocktail reception at The Store at Soho House Berlin. You look great in the pictures.More
At a show in Berlin, the trans experimental musician spoke about the difference between music and language, her fascination with geology, and physicality in the internet age. For Crampton, who was born in California to Bolivian parents, the very notion of becoming as something that occurs “beyond a constitution of discreet-particle physics.”More
032c Fashion Director Marc Goehring traveled from Paris to sunny Marseille this week for the launch of Simon Porte Jacquemus' first menswear collection. Tanned, overjoyed, and exhausted, Marc returned to our Berlin HQ with this travel diary.More
Last week, 032c Fashion Director Marc Goehring left our Berlin HQ for New York City's South City Seaport, where Saint Laurent Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello unveiled his first fully-fledged menswear collection for the label. Here's what happened.More
What happens when you mix RnB star Kelela with high tech sportswear and marinated quail eggs from Iceland in an empty warehouse behind a van depot? You feel like you have walked into the gym of your dreams.More
What happens when a Supreme logo is stuck to an axe? Is the object still an axe despite the logo, or is it something else? LA-based industrial designer and author Jonathan Olivares sat down with philosopher Graham Harman to find out whether his object-oriented ontology can help explain what a branded object actually is.More
To applaud the publication of “Mies in London,” a new book launching this weekend at the ICA in London, we revisit Jack Self’s conversation with Lord Peter Palumbo, the man responsible for commissioning Mies van der Rohe’s only project in the UK, a bronze tower and grand plaza scuppered by the forces of Thatcherism.More
Back in the Wild West days of Corporate Identity, graphic designers such as Massimo Vignelli, Richard Danne, and Bruce Blackburn were creating radical redesigns of NASA and the New York City Transit Authority. Both projects were dragged through the mud on their way to upending the status quo of visual culture. More
