Never Too Small #5
170 x 240 mm, 240 pages
Melbourne, Australia
Quarterly
First published 2024
Editor: Elizabeth Price
Creative Direction: Colin Chee
Art Director: Lara Burke
‘Creative, compact and joyful ways to design and live’
Never Too Small is the new print endeavour from the well-known YouTube channel of the same name that platforms small space design. It is made from offcuts of the videos, as their conversations with interesting people and their tiny homes always end up going beyond just space and design. The result is an unpretentious interiors and architecture magazine focused on creativity, individuality, sustainability and innovation.
Inside NTS’ vibrant fifth edition, you’ll find a lead feature on the bubbly graffiti artist and Kuala Lumpur native Loo Lok Chern (aka ‘Cloakwork’), who welcomes the team into his quirky home studio—a haven for maximalists and cat lovers alike. Kirsty Munro covers his recent European ‘spraycation’, alongside exploring the significance of the themes of nostalgia and humour that permeate his instantly recognisable murals. Other highlights include an engaging feature by Kirsten Drysdale tracing the history of New York’s distinctive tenement buildings, which provided housing to the large influx of immigrants that arrived at the turn of the 20th century, and now stand as a vivid expression of ‘the city’s DNA’; an interview with the illustrator Emilie Seto, whose colourful cityscapes capture the ‘extraordinary’ moments of quotidian life; plus, a conversation with Romanian photographer Bogdan Gírbovan, accompanied by a handful of reprinted photographs from his viral 10/1 series, which captured the interior lives of his neighbours in his Bucharest apartment block.
Plus! A set of stickers in Loo Lok Chern’s uniquely playful style.
On the Journal
At Work With Elizabeth Price: ‘Experience and exposure has shown us that the most creative and clever design is found in some of the smallest homes. Constraint breeds creativity as we know… even the smallest homes are full of potential.’
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