In just one year since we first featured him, Domhnall Gleeson has gone from the sidelights to the limelight. From supporting roles in Anna Karenina and Never Let Me Go, Gleeson is now—however reluctantly—one of Hollywood’s most promising lead actors, starring opposite Michael Fassbender in Frank earlier this year. Gleeson’s latest film, Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, has become a winter smash, and he’s since signed on to a film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. But buzz is already building over his starring role in Star Wars: Episode VII, directed by J.J. Abrams. We catch up with the young Irish actor just before his life changes forever.

It’s been nine years since Ilana Ben-Ari nearly lost her degree trying to design a toy that pushes children to think outside the box.

For Ben-Ari, play is one of our primal instincts. We like to solve problems, we like to be creative, and we like to solve problems in creative ways with each other. But collaborative learning and, more importantly, empathy aren’t just reserved for the playground. They are new hallmarks of the modern workplace.

It’s hard to believe Eden Full when she says there is no such thing as a child prodigy. Before she could legally buy a drink in her hometown of Calgary, she had already developed a prototype for a solar panel that was forty percent more efficient than standard panels. “It’s really just a matter of hard work,” Full reasons.

That hard work led Full to develop SunSaluter—a solar panel that rotates with the movement of the sun without the need for the active, electrical motors that power conventional solar panels. Designed specifically for developing countries in dire need of extra juice, Full won the prestigious Thiel Fellowship—worth $100,000 over two years—along with partnerships with Siemens and press from the New York Times. But the fellowship was a bit of a gamble, pulling Full out of her college plans.

Much is made of the young person’s imperative to change the world. Startups ought to think sustainably. Artists ought to think globally. Companies ought to give back. And yet how easy it is to do nothing? To head back to our social profiles or photo filters? At a time when people are more connected than they have ever been, we have simultaneously entered an age of narcissism, turning the social world into a tool to self-brand, self-define, and self-promote. And yet there is another groundswell building, one made up of young people who not only want to give back but also see the value in social innovation

Looking out over the mysterious, sculptural cliffs of RiME’s digital coast, one is caught by the beauty and wild imagination allowed to independent video game developers. “Joaquín Sorolla and the light of the Mediterranean were our main inspirations when creating RiME,” says Raúl Rubio Munárriz, creative director of Tequila Works, the company behind RiME. “Salvador Dalí’s negative space and Giorgio de Chirico’s Surrealist architecture contributed to create an eerie yet believable world.”

The standard shoot revolves around the ideas of the photographer or the creative director, with makeup artists and hairstylists working as a support team. Here at The Last Magazine, we wanted to celebrate these beauty experts in their own right, so we created a unique beauty portfolio called A Different Kind of Beauty that spans two issues and seven stunning images.

The story of Krochet Kids Intl. has been an improbable, guts-or-glory story of success following faith, says Kohl Crecelius, one of the nonprofit’s three laid-back founders. “I will tell you, there was a point where a group of about ten of us paused the night before we were going to teach the women in Uganda and we thought, What if they’re not very good at crocheting?”

It’s hard to ignore Wild Beasts, but it may be even harder to pin them down.

Phantogram has become a bit of a monster, happily eating up genres, accolades, and the lives of its two founding members, Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel. “We’re busy as fuck,” Barthel says, “but it’s a good busy.”

You might not know their names, but you definitely know their music. Meet TEN MUSIC GROUP, Stockholm’s multifaceted music label and production house behind a surprising number of your favorite songs, including Icona Pop’s delightfully shouty club hit “I Love It” and, thanks to Elof Loelv’s production, Rihanna’s spare ballad “Stay.” TEN has built its considerable reputation on Swedish talent, including Icona Pop, Niki & the Dove, Erik Hassle, Elliphant, and more.