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Molly and Everard Findlay

Aug, 2021

Molly and Everard, you have backgrounds and decades of experience in creative industries — styling, set design, and studio art for Molly, and global strategy and brand development for Everard. Is there a project you are working on together at the moment? Currently we are...

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Work in Progress: Intentional Enterprise

By merging marketing, branding, social innovation and the arts, global thought-leader and visionary Everard Findlay aims to generate solutions through deeper bonds — with each other and the planet. For the past 20 years, Everard Findlay has built strategies for global leaders, with the core...

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(Un)Protected

May, 2020

At a time when America is relying on health care workers more than ever, we look at why there’s not enough protective gear to keep them safe. Reveal’s Elizabeth Shogren reports on why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed guidelines for protecting health...

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Architectural Digest

January, 2020

“Some places draw you for a time, and this village drew us in,” says set designer and sculptor Molly Findlay, referring to Nyack, New York, where she and her husband Everard live with their two daughters. “We have extended their childhood years a bit, subjected...

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UN Roundtable on Floating Cities

April, 2019

On April 5, United Nations Human Settlement Programme invited Everard Findlay to a roundtable discussion of leading companies, architects, innovators, explorers, and scientists at UN Headquarters in New York to discuss breakthrough innovations for creating a better urban future and environmentally sustainable human settlements. Attendees...

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Vogue Japan

July, 2019

Pilgrim Surf + Supply Design Studio from NY announced a new eyewear brand "Arnah". In Japan, it is handled with "Globe Spex" Shibuya and Daikanyama branch and Pilgrim Surf + Supply. Read More

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Original Influencer

November, 2018

Everard Findlay’s self-made work merging branding with social innovation has set its sights on transforming communities from Trinidad and Tobago to New York to Detroit. It takes a certain type of person to craft an entirely new profession. Everard Findlay is one of those visionaries—his...

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Listen: A Conversation With Olayami Dabls & Everard Findlay

October, 2018

Detroit artist Olayami Dabls and Everard Findlay, curator of Absorb, Reflect, Transmit, an exhibition of Dabls' work now on view at The Fisher Building.

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Destination Michigan: The Fisher Building

June, 2018

On this episode, we’re making Motown our hometown. We kick things off with a tour of the historic Fisher Building. Next, grab your passport as we take a trip through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. Then we’ll discover how the Detroit Sound Conservancy is preserving the city’s...

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GrowNYC has been providing New Yorkers with fresh produce since the 70s.

September, 2017

GrowNYC has been providing New Yorkers with fresh produce since the 70s. Via Curbed NY

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Creative Time and NYPL present a collaborative venture, In Situ

September, 2017

Creative Time and The New York Public Library (NYPL) are proud to present a new collaborative venture, In Situ, a site-specific series of conversations pairing leading artists and public intellectuals to address critical topics of our time. The series premiered on March 16, 2017, at the...

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Stephen Ross, Ford Foundation to invest in Platform projects throughout city

September, 2017

Billionaire developer Stephen Ross and the New York-based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The Platform LLC to make a $27.5 million investment in bringing housing to Detroit neighborhoods. Ross, a Detroit native and New York real estate developer who also owns the Miami Dolphins,...

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Joakim Noah and the Drop of Consciousness Movement

July, 2017

Uniting Chicago youth through arts programming & peace awareness inspired by the Drop of Consciousness to create positive change in our communities. Noah’s Arc Foundation and After School Matters are uniting forces to inspire peace in Chicago communities through arts programming and the Drop of...

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Detroit House Music Takes a Swaggering Step Out of the Darkness

July, 2017

Frank Ocean, Solange and A Tribe Called Quest have top billing at the Panorama Festival on Randalls Island in New York next weekend. Squint a little, however, and the finer print farther down the poster reveals another vital expression of contemporary African-American popular music: a...

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Letter of Recommendation: Detroit Techno

July, 2017

In the early ’80s, the Roland Corporation, a Japanese electronics company, developed two machines that would soon become obsolete and change the world, in that order. The TR-808 Rhythm Composer and the TB-303 Bass Line — synthesizers with built-in sequencers — were designed for musicians...

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Art-Deco Half-Pipe Inside an Iconic 1920s Skyscraper

April, 2017

Everard Findlay brought an extreme sports installation to Albert Kahn's landmark Detroit architecture, the Fisher Building. It's a sight Fisher Building architect Albert Kahn couldn't fathom in 1928: a five-foot mini-ramp packed with skateboarders in one of his greatest architectural achievements. In Detroit, such a...

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Watch skateboarders inside one of Detroit’s most opulent Art Deco buildings

April, 2017

The brainchild of global brand strategist Everard Findlay, the project seeks to create common ground inside one of the city’s most illustrious buildings. “I envisioned putting a halfpipe in the Fisher Building to celebrate community cohesion in the city of Detroit,” Findlay tells Lonely Planet....

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You’ve never seen the Fisher Building like this

April, 2017

When we heard that the Fisher Building arcade would be activated more often as the restoration of the art deco building continues, we never thought we’d see this. From April 3-6, a halfpipe is set up in the lobby of the Fisher Building. It’s an...

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Halfpipe draws crowds in Detroit’s Fisher Building lobby

April, 2017

A BMX and skateboarding halfpipe has been set up right in the middle of Detroit's magnificent Fisher Building. The "Fisher Halfpipe" kicked off Monday night at Fisher Building. Professional and semi-pro skateboarders, inline skaters and BMX bikers will ride four at a time on the...

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Uniquely Detroit: Beacon Project at the Fisher

April, 2017

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In Fisher Building lobby, skateboarders fly on halfpipe

April, 2017

Cayden Byington looks younger than his 14 years, but handled his skateboard like an old pro Monday on what may be Michigan's most unique half-pipe, set up inside Detroit's Fisher Building. "It's really cool, just being around all this old architecture and the marble," the Wayland teen...

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Detroit ranked 9th in global destinations

January, 2017

Detroit’s revitalization, after its 2013 bankruptcy filing, has long been building. In 2015, it was named a Unesco City of Design. But 2017 may be the year promise becomes reality. The new QLine streetcar is expected to open in April, connecting the central Woodward Avenue...

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Work underway on $100 million Fisher, Albert Kahn building projects

November, 2016

A $100 million effort to restore the Fisher Building and redevelop the nearby Albert Kahn Building in Detroit is underway. The buildings, which were purchased last year at auction for $12.2 million along with a pair of parking decks with more than 2,000 parking spaces,...

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‘Maker City’ spotlights change agents in Fisher lobby

November, 2016

Big things are coming to the Fisher Building’s three-story, marble arcade — long sadly underutilized, but about to pop with new life. The Fisher Beacon Project, as the building’s new owners call it, will mount an ongoing series of exhibitions, performances and lectures to make...

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The Platform breaks ground on Third and Grand, the first such major development in Detroit’s New Center in decades

October, 2016

DETROIT – The team behind The Platform was joined by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and other local leaders today for the ground-breaking of Third and Grand, a new $53.1 million residential building that is the first development of its kind in New Center in more...

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Mother of Thousands’ Molly Findlay on NBC’s Open House NYC

September, 2016

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Again In A Great City

June, 2016

Detroit—on the other side of the country’s largest municipal bankruptcy—suddenly looks like a good investment. Developer Peter Cummings takes us on a tour of the city’s real estate revival.

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Mother of Thousands Art and Design Collective Launch at Bergdorf Goodman Men’s Store Windows

April, 2016

Mother of Thousands lives in the overlap between art and design, centering on works and happenings which warp the quotidien into other realms where sofas stretch into noodles and everyday tasks take on new significance. Why must our lamps look like lamps? Why not fetish...

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Watch: Laventille

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Dartmouth’s ICE Institute to Bridge Science and Humanities

October, 2015

“There are questions that scientists are dealing with right now that science alone cannot answer,” says theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy. The question of free will, for example, has traditionally been a problem for philosophers and theologians, but is increasingly...

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Anndra Neen’s Phoebe and Annette Stephens in Suriname

September, 2013

"A good trip always broadens our vision, so we were thrilled when our friend Everard Findlay invited a few jewelry designers to Suriname to experience life in a country that's 90 percent rain forest. After a quick connecting flight from the tiny country's capital, Paramaribo,...

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SipSmart Cap Wins 1st Place at World Beverage Innovation Awards

November, 2015

Everard Findlay was invited to BrauBeviale, Germany to attend the 13th annual World Beverage Innovation Awards to support a brand he represents and is part-owner of, called SipSmart Cap. The invention won first place above many other competitors in the "Best Closure" category, some of...

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Watch Turning Tables’ Music as a Global Movement

September, 2015

Turning Tables founder Martin Fernando Jakobsen sits down with Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith to discuss Music as a Global Movement at the 2015 Social Good Summit.

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Everard Findlay for Macallan Rare Cask

September, 2015

For the launch their new Single Malt Rare Cask, The Macallan asked Everard Findlay to be a part of their "Macallan Man" campaign. Captured in New York City, Macallan sat down with Findlay to discuss the rare encounters he has experienced on his travels around the world....

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Portraits of the African Diaspora in Suriname

June 2015

The New Yorker featured portraits of Maroons from Suriname and French Guyana by Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo.

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Neuehouse interviews Everard Findlay

May, 2015

Co-founder Joshua Abram sat down with Everard Findlay to discuss Neuehouse. "Nothing is to crazy to put out there: [a] performance piece based on the evolution of the steel drum. All of these people show up and it fosters all kinds of conversation. Without interdisciplinary collaboration,...

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Suriname’s Indigenous People Declare Conservation Pledge

March, 2015

The 72,000 square kilometer indigenous conservation corridor covers some of the most pristine, intact and remote rainforests in the world; it is the first in Suriname declared by indigenous peoples. Paramaribo, Suriname/Arlington, Va. USA — Today, the Trio and Wayana Communities presented a declaration of...

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Suriname Launch Branding Campaign

March, 2015

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry launched its branding campaign "We Are Suriname". Minister Lackin explained what the goal of the campaign was during a press conference. "The point is to show the world who we are, why we are, where we want to go...

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Suriname: Land of El Dorado

December, 2014

As part of a broader project linking artists, innovators and scientists with global issues, I devised the Suriname Designer Collaboration Project, inviting Phoebe and Annette Stephens of Anndra Neen, Pamela Love and Yelena Noah to uncover the richness of Surinamese culture, to experience new ways...

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A World Away: What Suriname Can Teach Us

April, 2014

What does Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana) have to teach us? The smallest independent country in South America with just over half a million inhabitants, per capita income not much more than $10,000, possibly 80% or more of the country composed of rainforest – what possible...

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One Designer’s Quest to Help Protect a South American Rainforest

May, 2014

"Jewelry designer and entrepreneur Pamela Love journeys into the mineral-rich paradise of Suriname to shine a light on sustainable mining and the country’s efforts to protect its rain forest. New York is 3,000 miles—and an ecological light-year—away from Suriname, the rain forest–rich country nestled on...

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Art Matters: Taking Back the Steel Drum

December, 2013

    On Tuesday and Wednesday, Findlay hosted “7 Drums 7 Artists,” a cross-disciplinary tribute to the steel pan at NeueHouse. At the heart of the project were seven artworks, created by artists (including Rita Ackerman and Olaf Breuning), musicians and scientists, each of which...

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A Discussion with Everard Findlay

May, 2013

“My daughter, my five year old, said this amazing thing. She looked at me and said ‘Daddy and I butt heads sometimes because we are a lot alike but we love each other’,” Brooklyn-based branding consultant and philanthropist Everard Findlay tells me as we discuss...

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Under 40 and Saving the World

October, 2012

As the head of his eponymous consulting firm, Everard Findlay rebrands corporations, designs glamourous ad campaigns, and curates art exhibitions. But perhaps his greatest achievement is founding Special Friends of the Earth, a global outreach mission that began with a project in the impoverished city...

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Blue Man Group

May, 2010

Everard Findlay, alongside five other respective men of their fields, including artists Doug & Mike Starn, opera singer Simon Keenlyside and Harvard scholar Noah Feldman, where photographed by Barnaby Roper for this WSJ feature article. "I work with Louis Silverman [founder of New York real-estate investment...

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Business Class: 8 Captains of their Respective Industries

September, 2008

"Eight captains of their respective industries prove the pinstripe shouldn't be confined to the boardroom. The season's best Italian suits fly on chefs, philanthropists, and artists alike. No matter what theatrical display Gucci sends down the runway, the core of the brand is still its...

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We Look After Them

November, 2008

"EVERARD FINDLAY In 1991, from the nation Trinidad and Tobago, he arrived in New York to pursue studies that unify sport (in particular soccer) and visual communication. The intersection between kinetics and art had, at that moment, formed his approach to his work, directing it...

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