The Journal. Interviews and features about the sites and studios in the directory, and the people who made them.

Lucía Ferrer and Pablo Marín reviewing printed page layouts on a long wooden table in their Madrid studio

Interview

Estudio Brava on giving a fintech API a paper texture

Lucía Ferrer and Pablo Marín explain why Nodo looks more like an annual report than a dashboard.

Giulia Romano sorting black and white contact prints at a desk by the window of her Milan studio

Interview

Inside Studio Ombra: three portfolios, one rule

Giulia Romano on designing portfolios for photographers who would rather you never noticed the website.

The empty Ottis dining room in the morning, with beech tables, an ochre wall and a long birch counter

Feature

Why Kvist built a wine bar site that scrolls sideways

Ottis turns every page into a row of full screen panels. Freja Holm explains how the idea survived contact with a real restaurant.

Rasmus Kjær working on a laptop with a dark interface at an oak desk lit by a black desk lamp

Interview

Halvø on designing dark sites people can actually read

Rasmus Kjær shares the rules behind Buio, Flabbergasted and Zeroindex, three technical products that live in the dark.