Fernando Nunez

Fernando Nunez

Fernando Nunez is an editor at Visual Atelier 8, contributing to the publication focus on contemporary art, design, architecture, fashion, technology, and creative culture. His editorial work highlights emerging and established creatives through curated features, interviews, and project-based storytelling for an international audience.
BlueBerry: Maybach

BlueBerry: Maybach

BlueBerry’s “Maybach” treats the luxury car the way a boxer treats the title belt, a piece of hardware you stare at across the ring, and the staring is the work. Sung in French, the hook spells the trade out in…

Softklub: Give Me More

Softklub: Give Me More

‘Give Me More’ opens with a question and answers it before the chorus arrives. Softklub is the Edmonton duo of Keenan Gregory and Mark Wojcicki, built from the surprise Gregory handed Wojcicki when he sang over a piano part that…

Snowk: Soen

Snowk: Soen

Snowk’s “Soen” carries the cold of the place it was made. Yutaka Taknami and Fuminori Kagajo are from Japan’s snow country, and the melodic house record they built for the French label Kitsuné Musique pushes the synths to the back…

SAINT MARLOE: A MISUNDERSTANDING

SAINT MARLOE: A MISUNDERSTANDING

SAINT MARLOE’s “A MISUNDERSTANDING” is one day in the life of a person who will not recognize it as their own. A covert narcissist, the kind who calls destruction by a polite name, walks ordinary hours while the song watches.…

Conor Miley: Peepshow

Conor Miley’s “Peepshow” opens with a father and a sin and ends with a drummer in a pub, and the distance between those two points is where the song lives. Recorded live in studio with a full band, the song…

Kabusa Oriental Choir: Folded

Kabusa Oriental Choir: Folded

Kabusa Oriental Choir’s “Folded” presses choral mass into an Afrosoul groove built for low light. The FCT ensemble started with viral covers, Kizz Daniel, DJ Spinal, a Valentine’s song that reached BBC 1Xtra, and moved from there toward original material.…

Rukmani: HIH (Hot In Here)

Rukmani’s “HIH (Hot In Here)” carries the weight of a song that arrived before its writer knew what it meant. The instrumental found on YouTube, saved, returned to later, the lyric written almost immediately: that sequence matters because the song…

So Good: Orange Juice & Milk

So Good: Orange Juice & Milk

So Good’s “Orange Juice & Milk” runs on a central reversal: every “I love” in the lyric means the opposite, and the accumulation is the point. No self-awareness, no room-reading, no empathy, eyes rolled at the right moment. The list…