Meet our 2026 guest editors

She’s been called an artist, designer, writer, sculptor, even magician – but really, Es Devlin says, she’s an ‘everythingist’. Thirty years into her practice, Devlin isn’t pausing. She is, however, reflecting. With two major milestones arriving this autumn – the Design Museum’s ‘Other Worlds' (2 October 2026 – 4 April 2027), the first major UK exhibition dedicated to her work, and a new edition of A Concise Atlas of Es Devlin – she has found herself looking back across three decades of projects that have ranged from opera and theatre to stadium tours, public art, architecture and publishing. Revisiting 30 years of work ‘has really helped me to find the common threads through the practice. Otherwise it can all feel a bit fragmented,’ she says.

Those threads form the backbone of ‘Other Worlds’. The exhibition is an invitation to explore the mechanisms of Devlin’s imagination. Visitors will find a detailed recreation of her London studio, where, surrounded by sketchbooks, paintings and maquettes, a vast circular ‘30-Year Desk’ links projects as varied as her revolving stage for The Lehman Trilogy, immersive mirror installation Forest of Us, the London 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony, the Super Bowl halftime show and monumental concert stages.

As part of her guest editorship of Wallpaper’s October issue – which also includes a portfolio of career highlights, and a fold-out poster for those with the print issue – Devlin invites us into her studio to tell us more.

Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1953, artist Carrie Mae Weems investigates traditional narratives woven into the structures of race, identity, gender and power. Early works, including the Kitchen Table series (1990), were celebrated for centring the experience of Black women. Others, appropriating daguerreotypes of enslaved people, tinting them red and adding etched text on glass, as in From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995-96), challenged racial representation and questioned the authority of those who write history.

Confronting memory and emphasising the importance of a dialogue remain cornerstones of Weems’ practice today. In the October issue of Wallpaper*, her curated guest edit is printed on unvarnished paper in a nod to Inserts (1988), Weems’ first collaborative effort. Her curation highlights work – by herself and artists she admires – that celebrates monuments in relation to mourning, meaning and memory.

Accompanied by an essay by American art advisor, curator, mentor and writer Charles Guice, it also stunningly presages her next collaborative undertaking, titled 250 and Change, a nationwide, artist-centred project that features her and others’ response to the US semiquincentennial.

Cult streetwear brand Palace Skateboards was born in the concrete underbelly of London's Southbank Centre, where a series of ledges, ramps and pillars has served as an impromptu skatepark for the past five decades. The brainchild of Lev Tanju and Gareth Skewis, who would skate there daily, Palace – as it is usually shortened – was formed in 2009, when the pair created T-shirts which sent up the logos of luxury fashion houses in an irreverent style that would become the brand's signature.

Adopted at first by Tanju's skate crew, the Palace Wayward Boys Choir (PWBC), Palace quickly transcended its subcultural roots to become one of youth culture's most ubiquitous brands, recognisable for its ‘Tri-Ferg’ logo (graphic designer Fergus Purcell’s riff on the Penrose triangle), which has appeared on a slew of collaborations, from Gucci to Mercedes-AMG, as well as Wedgwood, Stella Artois and Rizla (the results are full of the deadpan wit you find in Palace’s weekly drops). The logo also hangs over its bricks-and-mortar stores in London, New York, LA, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai (among others), and Manor Place, a community space in south London conceived with Nike, which opened in 2025.

For their guest edit of Wallpaper*, Tanju and Skewis turn the lens from themselves towards 17 members of the Palace community – friends, collaborators and muses from the worlds of skating, fashion, art, music and beyond, all of whom have done sterling work for the brand. Together, they encapsulate Palace's come one, come all spirit. ‘Palace is for everyone,’ says Tanju.

In fact, we have 30 designs of the week – choose your favourite from Wallpaper’s 30th birthday cakes, kindly cooked up by some of our creative friends and collaborators. Among our ‘bakers’ are Patricia Urquiola, whose confection is pictured here, Norman Foster, Issey Miyake, Hannah Martin, Nmbello Studio and many more. They all look delicious – help yourself.