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Having studied fashion design in Los Angeles, she spent fifteen years working hands-on in the fashion industry before expanding her expertise into editorial work and event management with the Farmani Group a decade ago. Today, she serves as the editor of Luminaries Magazine, where she focuses her creative vision on discovering and promoting award-winning designers, architects, and artists.

Stories by Editorial

Design

Designing Privacy in a Noisy World

Framery’s smart office pods ask what concentration, comfort, and autonomy should look like in the contemporary workplace.

©Si Zheng
Design

A Decade of Rain: Making Time Visible

In A Decade of Rain, communication design becomes a way to think about memory, duration, and the stories that images and words can carry.

© Thomas Broening
Photography

The End of the Dream: Thomas Broening’s American Reckoning

The 2023 IPA Photographer of the Year uses the language of advertising photography to examine the distance between aspiration and reality.

©Charles Niell Jr. Chaz
Photography

Beyond the Headlines: Chaz Niell and the Human Face of Protest

With Roe V. Wade Fully Human, the 2024 IPA Photographer of the Year turns a divisive public debate into a study of presence, conviction, and lived experience.

Architecture

A New Language for Sacred Space

At Wanbao Christian Church in Fujian, symbolic interiors connect religious narrative with the marine identity of Pingtan Island.

Design

The Future of Water, by Design

AirOwater proposes a domestic object that draws moisture from the air, turning a resource challenge into a question of product design.

Design

When Typography Becomes Art

Yiwen Zhang’s experimental graphic project draws on punk culture to explore expression, emotional experience, and the printed page.

Julie Shaw and Bula’bula
©Photo images by Daphne Nguyen, Petrina Tinslay
Art & Culture

Fashion as Cultural Memory

Julie Shaw and Bula’bula Arts bring Yolngu weaving knowledge into a dress that bridges couture and living cultural practice.

Architecture

Architecture at the Water’s Edge

LYT-X Studio reimagines a historic harbor structure in Le Havre as a cultural place shaped by wind, memory, and public life.

©Photos by Iwan Baan
Architecture

The Architecture of Openness

How REX’s Perelman Performing Arts Center brings theatrical flexibility and a luminous civic presence to Lower Manhattan.