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Returning from stainless steel to paper — we’re releasing Katya Sikacheva’s photobook Still Lives, 9-to-5 with Apropos Editions.

An artifact made for the studio’s sixth anniversary is a new iteration of the hand-embroidered caps by Lundi Paris. One of the most beloved and longest-running pieces of the studio uniform, now returning in black.

Non-Objective in 60 Seconds covers the studio’s practice in the time it takes to read it. Sixty pages: history and background, ideology, how we work with clients, the extensions built alongside client projects. One page is one second. One page carries one thought.

Non-Objective talks to The Brand Identity about one of the studio’s notable projects — the identity for Italian bistro Mill. Read more here.

Photography has always been central to our practice — this year, we formalised it as a distinct direction. Recently, we produced an artistic photo series that became a limited-edition set of prints — a love letter to some of our closest collaborators.

Artem Matyushkin and Katya Sikacheva gave a lecture titled The Inner Atlas of Non-Objective, which evolved into a glossary of the studio’s practice — and the Words section on this website. It brought together key principles, concepts, and approaches, alongside the people, projects, and themes that have shaped the studio’s vision and continue to inform what we explore at Non-Objective.

Artem Matyushkin — alongside other design studio founders — on building and sustaining a design studio culture. Read more on Readymag Blog.

In their extensive interview with The Brand Identity, Non-Objective’s creative directors reflect on the studio’s history, the ideology that grounds it, and their efforts to move design away from a service-based model toward a more autonomous and diverse practice. Read the full piece here.

Non-Objective Times: Clockwise and Otherwise. What was once a fleeting exhibition in Seoul has now become a permanent online installation. Accessible wherever the internet reaches, open at any time. From 1 to 145, every clock face from our Pop Hannam show has now found its place on the site. Visit whenever time allows.

A small artifact for the studio’s 5th anniversary — a metal button with five irregularly placed holes and an engraving. Made in an edition of 10, for the team only — a small object that, quite literally, holds us together.

The first object we designed for Apropos Editions is VASE-21 — a stainless steel vase built on the sequence 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6. Discover more here.

A fleeting exhibition by Non-Objective, Clockwise and Otherwise, held at Pop Hannam (a space organised by Post Poetics) in Seoul, reflected on the fluidity of time and its subjective nature.

Katya Sikacheva shares insights into the creative process at Non-Objective and how ideas take shape, in a new article on the Readymag blog. Read more here.

Launching Apropos Editions with its first release — a publication that is both an exhibition catalogue and a printed archive of our visual research Outcomes Studies, which itself became one of the subjects of that research.

Ciao! Presented in September 2024 at Small Small Space in Milan, Outcomes Studies reflected on the limits of control, the role of accident, and the logic of irregularity — and marked the release of Apropos Editions’ first book.

Non-Objective founder Artem Matyushkin took part in Blah Blah Blah — a project built around 13 questions that surface the ideology and mission behind his design practice and the studio’s work. Read the full piece here.

In 2024, from June to September, the contemporary design space Koordinata hosted an exhibition we conceived and curated — Form and Content: Design Books’ Design. The show featured 50 books about remarkable designers and architects, each selected as much for the expressiveness and thoughtfulness of its form as for its content.

We’ve released the first stage of our research project Outcomes Studies, exploring the nature of randomness and asking whether a random outcome can be shaped by consciously initiating constant, repetitive interactions with inanimate objects. Explore the project at outcomes-studies.com.