Utopia by Design
© Benjamin Loyauté studio
Kosmos
Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world
© L'amour Col des Aravis; saype-artiste.com
Organic art
Anyone can spray walls, but Swiss graffiti artist Guillaume Legros aka Saype uses areas of turf the size of soccer fields as the canvas for his airbrush art, most of it human portraits. A pioneer of this genre between land and street art, Saype uses biodegradable paints he developed himself.
Feat of engineering
In northeastern Brazil, an estimated 200 million tightly packed earthen mounds cover an area about the size of Great Britain, with a vast tunnel system stretching beneath it. Here, generations of termites have labored for 4000 years – and their descendants are carrying on the good work.
© Crístobal Schmal
Business trip
Working in places where others vacation is appealing in the winter. These new hotspots for digital nomads aren’t quite full yet …
© Bente Schipp
change of pace
Once you left your computer screen to swim in the cenotes and inspect Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico, it’s time for something new. We recommend the excellent beach clubs in Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific coast.
beach included
Rio? Sure, that’s a place you won’t want to leave in a hurry. But if you have to work, Florianópolis, a small town on the South Brazilian coast, is more relaxed and fast becoming a mecca for startups.
quick return
The perfect place is sometimes closer than you think: Las Palmas, the capital of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, has it all: culture, beaches and high-speed Internet – plus a fast flight home for the European nomad whose business partner insists on a personal meeting.
Otherworldly
British photographer Reuben Wu isn’t interested in realist images; he wants to photograph landscapes as though they were unexplored territory. To do so, he attaches spotlights to a drone and uses a long exposure to create surreal effects.
© itsreuben; reubenwu.com
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