Journal

An Enchanted Children’s Tale That Brings The Forest Inside

Convert a home into a theatrical adventure tale for children that follows animals around a forest. Explore a pre-cut, pop-out picturebook that brings a story alive this International Children's Boo...

Essential Stockpiling For International Children's Book Day

Rally up the kids and start a book club this International Children's Book Day. The name of the game is activities and education. Stir up new projects at home with these three activities from Easy ...

Bring Your Pantry Alive With These Improvised Breakfast Recipes

Recipes for readers to inspire impromptu new morning rituals that break the cycle of isolation. Through Simone Hawlisch's photography and recipes, we explore spontaneous solutions that are often hi...

Eco-Design Cinematically Unified With Post-Industrialism

A former quarry on the Swedish island of Gotland has been transformed into a minimalistic hostelry that brings eco-design to a forgotten Brutalist structure. A sustainable cooking approach that enh...

From Cape Town To Lesotho’s High Plateaus And Back

Tour devilishly passes that run through Lesotho and track a motorbike journey that goes into South Africa, showing the locations with breathtaking vistas while providing insight for all. Experience...

COVID-19: A message from gestalten

Our vision has always been to bring like-minded people together through creativity. The dynamic situation we are now in means we all have to reimage the ways in which we work, collaborate, and look...

Print's Not Dead!

The world of print media is experiencing a resurgence as people continue to distance themselves from digital domains. Books and bookstores represent the physical objects missing in modern societies...

Remaking The World, One Globe At A Time

Peter Bellerby’s London globe making workshop is keeping a craft that demands the highest levels of attention and detail alive, against the tide of mechanism and still adhering to established tradi...

The Last Kalinga Tattoo Artist

Rumored to be over 100-years-old, Whang-od Oggay is the Philippines' oldest tattoo artist and a master of her craft. Keeping an ancient tradition alive in the Kalinga mountaintops, people from all ...

Into The Mystical, Secluded Faroe Islands

Nestled in a pocket of the North Atlantic and caught between Scotland, Iceland, and Norway sits 18 minuscule masses of land that collectively make up the archipelago of the Faroe Islands. “Bare, na...