Byron Hawes is a New York-based writer and designer. He is the founder and editor of the underground design magazine The Après Garde , and a co-founder of I-V, a boutique architecture and design firm that has done projects including a recording studio and offices for OVOsound, and Campari's Canadian HQ. He currently serves as a contributing editor for Hypebeast , Sidewalk Hustle , and Fucking Young and senior editor for Flofferz , and was previously a consulting editor at Architectural Digest China and HighSnobiety and Greater China Editor for BlackBook Magazine , as well as having contributed to publications including Monocle , Vice , Wallpaper , and Azure . Additionally, he has authored or co-authored the books Drop , We are Wanderful: 25 Years of Design & Fashion in Limburg , Post Industrial Brutalism and the Daiquiri , Modern Tropical: Houses in the Sun , Façades: A Visual Compendium of Modern Architecture , and others.