Lampoon / Transition: Mr. Heron Preston and the promise he can confirm
We need to educate consumers on what they are consuming. Designer Heron Preston on presenting a whole new material to the world in coming months
We need to educate consumers on what they are consuming. Designer Heron Preston on presenting a whole new material to the world in coming months
Post-war, post-austerity, and post-conscription: the oil paintings, watercolors and photographs of Patrick Procktor testifying societal change in 1960s Britain
Alvaro Catalàn de Ocon creates PET lamps: he could be considered a precursor of sustainable design bridging the gap between industrial production and craftmanship
Genius Loci Marco Lavit Nicora talks about earth, Enzo Mari and a wooden sailboat and a house pulled by a horse called Maria
Celebrating sixty gay and queer artists across twenty-five countries, editor Ghislain Pascal is combating homophobic censorship with a multi-faceted platform
Olivia Rubens grew bioplastic on material from algae, without releasing toxicity in the process «We use humor as a shield and as a pathway»
«We strongly believe in the public sector». James and Claire Hyman and the brainstorming that stands for a contemporary collection in dialogue with a remote visitor
An attempt to demystify fashion’s invisible man: «He could have all the glory and fame – instead he decided to step away to let the garments and the Maison speak for him»
Berlin-based singer-songwriter, Alice Merton opens up about her musical influences, life after releasing her debut single
Why are artists still not attributed with the creative respect they are owed in a multi-billion industry in conversation with Gregor Barratt – a 27 years old man from the French Riviera
«I can tell a story about every piece of clothing I’ve ever made or bought» – Joshua James Small discusses the narrative behind his collection, Thru These Tears: escapism and sustainability
Multiple suns, artificial clouds and a sustainable utopia: with physicists, architects and engineers, the Macedonian artist prompts a dialogue between man and his surrounding environment
Pardo Hats aims to defend the value of slow fashion and to keep a distance from the fake charm of what’s instantaneous: image reference and a short introduction of Sol Pardo
David Owen and Angela Hill refined their ability to perceive an image’s potential through a process of trial and error. Their intuition and broad-mindedness define their approach to selecting titles
Defining Fictional streetwear: using ‘dead stuff’ and making it into something new, reimagining these materials in their own image – the idea of death runs through the entire project
The Descriptive, Prescriptive and Impossible: to tear down distinction between art and science – Dustin Yellin taps into societal issues: «What I do is make a trail through the woods»
«There are no boring or uninspiring things» says the artist – «Nothing is better than flowers. They are the unit of all that is beautiful, that’s why it’s called flowierdy»
The clubbing experience is conceived as intimate and shared with other people as a social activity, a way to learn more about oneself and the individuals around, away from the ordinary life
Benjamin Labatut looks at the major scientific breakthroughs of the last century and how they show that we have ceased to understand the world
Flaminia Veronesi – A fish with arms and legs, Adam in penises and nipples, a mermaid with two legs and a tail. When does one employ fantasy?
The wave of art radicalism in the 1960s founded a publication, a bulletin of information transformed into a journal of art literature and research: Gea Politi, Cristiano Seganfreddo
Italian contemporary artist Daniele Sigalot plays with aluminium and other artistic mediums to create a sense of disorientation in the mind of the observer
Robert Shore chronicles the art of Kusama Yayoi: «the discovery of her father’s affair left her with a lifelong aversion to male genitalia; the dropping of atomic bombs left a sense of reality as a hallucination»
Designer Vincenzo Palazzo discusses how «Fashion creates us, we don’t create fashion; it’s like music that finds ears to reach out for its evolution»
A Budapest-based brand, the durability in production, and the exposure that should be given to sustainable solutions and nature: case study, Nanushka, Sandra Sandor
It’s not like someone working in the post office. For an artist it’s life, it’s a way of life, it’s not something you decide to quit somehow. You’re there the moment you know that you cannot avoid it.
From illustration to performances, from sculpture to acting: Nicola Di Benedetto – «We were all staging the Seventies and we all were acting»
Songwriting it’s intuitive. «Often, it’s a setting or a place. Whether they connect or make any sense together, where I am physically can dictate the sounds I’m making»
Director of the Vitra Design Museum, Dr. Mateo Kries: «Museums are not only reflecting social evolutions but seeing themselves as an active part in society»
Reiner Werner Fassbinder, Alberto Arbasino, Carlo Emilio Gadda. Toshio Matsumoto. Visual researcher and creative director devoted to fashion and cinema, Giangi Giordano tells his story
«I want to know. Not believe. Not guess. I want to know» – Gian Maria Tosatti: not knowing what’s going on in ones’ territory can be a choice, but when it’s not, it’s a threat
Designer Antonin Tron: «I never claimed that ATLEIN is sustainable, because as long as you’re creating something, you’re creating waste. It’s not a perfect system»
Journaling as a therapy, Mia Moretti talks to Liza Voloshin to collect poems on love, self, and freedom, on the verge of the low touch economy in the pandemic
«I extract the bark on my own and it’s not regularly harvested either. The final product ranges from earthy brown to pink to deep terracotta colors with a scent of wood».
Former architect turned visual artist, Tatiana Brodatch explores love and nudity: «My plasticine people are the actors. The photographs and the stop-motion are the play»
The challenge to change the perception of red mud in order to consider it a potential sustainable resource. In conversation with Kevin Rouff, Paco Boekemann and Guillermo Whittembury
«Making art is like making love; it is carnal, physical—we all make love, but not everyone makes art». In conversation with the owner of Italian jewelry house Vhernier
Griffin Frazen on data visualization, 3D modelling and «using architectural thinking and technical skills to help people understand protests from a spacial perspective»
The Beach animals: machines made out of PVC tubing and sails moved by wind energy that wander the shores of Scheveningen, the Netherlands – man is by nature an artist and an engineer
How knowing the origin of your pieces helps to create a client experience that surpasses the act of buying something. «You just should care who’s made something and where it’s come from».
Former architect and graphic designer turned artist dedicates her time to the formation of organic-inspired ceramics: unglazed and rough, yet figurative and soft, the ceramic vase designs of a Danish artist
Upcycling designer Nicole McLaughlin and John-John Johnson Junya, known as DJ4Animals, repurpose university hoodies for SUFE Fund, delivering a message on the state of student debt in America
The British violinist presents new album Between the Clouds, gathering classical pieces from his 20-years music repertoire: «There is a lightness to them like a cloud»
When eco-friendliness meets body-positivity: Ella Wiznia of The Series New York’s drive to upend traditional body conceptions and produce upcycled garments
Patricia Zhou worked at dance companies across Europe or the States with her primary focus laying on Russian style ballet rather than the English techniques
Body is sacred, nudity is art, and nature is a living being. Bianca Lee Vasquez seeks the veracity and the reverence nature holds with living beings: «We need to see divinity in one another»
The exploration of storytelling and the celebration of black joy through community and clothing: Priya Ahluwalia turns to film to capture the different heritages present in London
Making products requires constant investment in improving the creative process. Mats Rombaut, founder of Rombaut and Víron: «Sustainability means necessity»
«I like this idea of a natural cycle, birth, death, the relationship between order and chaos. I aim to recreate these aspects in ephemeral sculptures, which are not made to last»
Sofia Tchkonia’s confidence to underdogs: the tinkering of trust towards local creatives has kindled a spirit to unveil the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE BECOMING YET
BUT WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
458 PAGES
RECYCLED PAPER, NO COATED
COVER IMAGE MARIE TOMANOVA
IN CONVERSATION WITH
HERON PRESTON
GIORGIO ARMANIHAKAN KARAOSMAN
DAN COLEN
REINER HOLZEMER
CYRILL GUTSCH
IAN MASSEY
LAMPOON PUBLISHING HOUSE SRL | R.E.A. DI MILANO N. 2057081
I.V. TRATTAMENTO DEI DATI © LAMPOON 2019
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE BECOMING YET
BUT WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
IN CONVERSATION WITH
HERON PRESTON
GIORGIO ARMANI
HAKAN KARAOSMAN
DAN COLEN
REINER HOLZEMER
CYRILL GUTSCH
IAN MASSEY
LAMPOON PUBLISHING HOUSE SRL | R.E.A. DI MILANO N. 2057081
I.V. TRATTAMENTO DEI DATI © LAMPOON 2019