The Daily Dispatch includes reviews and critical readings of books, exhibitions, photography projects, architecture, independent publications and cultural initiatives. Each contribution connects individual work to a wider system of production, politics, technology and material culture.
Updated with new content every day, The Daily Dispatch extends Lampoon’s editorial research beyond the rhythm of the print edition. It is a continuous journal of contemporary culture — grounded in evidence, direct observation and an interest in how things are made.
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How much it costs to make an image, and who pays for it
Thirteen years in fashion led Voranger to build Creatives' Tool: it takes rates anonymously and returns median figures by brand, profession and years of experience. A photographer can look up...
Lampoon SALIVA — the introduction, the editor’s letter
Lampoon SALIVA — the new issue of Lampoon, autumn 2026: a colorless liquid, slightly stringy — a kiss holds 80 million bacteria, Horny For Culture
Rubber as structure and surface: Rich Aybar tests one material
Photographs of his work read as glass or resin. The haptic quality does not transfer. Aybar asks how far a single material goes as structure, surface, and the layer against...
What questions would you ask if your pen pal were an 18-year-old female chatbot? Brea Souders
Another online Pervert – Brea Souders turned 2 years of chatbot conversations into images: the chatbot is a "she," programmed by men who taught her how to speak and what...
We are all pornstars now: what my AI deepfakes taught me about the future of desire
A digital anthropologist let an AI clone her, then watched her avatar seduce strangers — on avatar envy, looksmaxxing, and the animal fashion keeps putting back on the runway
Jean Schlumberger at Tiffany & Co.: I Am Only a Pencil, in Paris
The Exhibition I Am Only a Pencil in Paris: Jean Schlumberger’s creative process at Tiffany & Co., from sketch to workshop
Pillings, friction, wool: when the flaw becomes the design
Anatomy of pilling - from fibres, friction and washing to Ryota Murakami, who has made it the language of a brand
Saliva: few drops on a classical portrait — Naruki Kukita and the Bukkake series
From a Bushwick studio the painter works in oil and pre-Impressionist layers, adds the anime figure last, and teaches in a dojo where students learn the form before breaking it
Loewe Spring/Summer 2027: McCollough and Hernandez stage the collection as theater
llough and Hernandez's third show, at the Château de Vincennes for the Loewe spring/summer 2027 collection: balloon skirts like stacked paper, plasticised collars, leather with the seams erased
Rick Owens Spring Summer 2027: the womenswear collection turns stone into light
Stone, the Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear collection, reads the stone as stoicism. The millefoglie jackets take 45 hours each
Balenciaga Summer 2027: Pierpaolo Piccioli rebuilds the basque through the seam
For Balenciaga Summer 2027, Pierpaolo Piccioli takes basque shapes from the house archive and transfers them onto T-shirts and leather jackets, using exposed seams to build volume from everyday garments
Nelio Biedermann: the youngest writer with the oldest story to tell
What began as a teenager’s attempt to write about his family became Lázár: a century-spanning novel of castles, war, desire, instability and disappearing worlds. An interview with Nelio Biedermann
Saint Laurent SS27: gold leaf on latex, forty-nine gilded looks
Anthony Vaccarello has spent September inside a succession rumour. His answer at the Trocadéro: fifty-nine looks, forty-nine of them gilded, gold leaf laid on latex, and a black velvet finale
Radical tailoring: What does it mean today?
Radical tailoring: when tailoring moves beyond human anatomy, using construction to enlarge, displace, and reconstruct the dressed body
Open Studio Homme Plissé Issey Miyake: Henri Matisse, The Snail and the pleats
Matisse cut and pinned paper coated in gouache; Homme Plissé Issey Miyake sets pleats in with heat and pressure. At Tate Modern, Open Studio puts the two methods side by...
Cotton, nylon and polyester together – Why can’t we recycle fashion ?
The new ecodesign regulation bans the disposal of unsold stock, but cotton, nylon and polyester sewn together make separation expensive. Where does a garment nobody recycles end up?
From tapper to mill, the plot disappears: how natural rubber gets its paper trail back
Eighty-five percent of the world's natural rubber is tapped by smallholders, one tree at a time, and new EU rules now require every buyer to prove which plot the cut...
How the stereo speaker became one of design’s quietest icons
From hi-fi engineering to fashion boutiques, the stereo speaker has evolved beyond consumer electronics into a design object shaping interiors, listening culture and contemporary aesthetics
Dracula without images: how Audible builds cinematic horror
An interview with Robin Morgan-Bentley, director of scripted drama and original fiction at Audible UK, on how Dracula is built as cinematic audio, from editorial development to studio recording and...
Renée Levi covers the Hayward Gallery façade with seven fluorescent colors
Audemars Piguet Contemporary commissions the Swiss artist to create a large-scale painting on perforated industrial mesh for London's brutalist landmark on the Southbank
Homo Faber: respect and attention: the message it spreads offers civic value
In Venice, on the island of San Giorgio, Homo Faber 2026: imagination is that confusion that resembles the sky, but a cornucopia can offer flowers and some salad
What remains of a chair: Martino Gamper and the design of waste
From Martino Gamper to Markus Friedrich Staab, chairs built from recovered materials reveal the labor, the limits and the contradictions hidden behind the unique piece
How do you milk a snail?
The great snail rush: ethical farming innovations and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
Yann Turchi: Image as Proximity
Analog process, lived perspective, and narrative control: photography as presence, not performance.
Milk can become textile: what a dairy does with a milk it cannot sell
Don’t cry over spilled milk. The story behind the idea of transforming food waste into fabric
The US(er): Marcel Top archives Trump-era government propaganda
We Will Not Be Stopped collects and verifies DHS and ICE posts, tracing how state violence is edited
Danny Boyle’s Ink: The film, the material and the industry behind it
Danny Boyle’s Ink opens Venice Film Festival 2026 with Rupert Murdoch’s story, but the real subject is the material behind the press industry
Why is that man still burning? some lines about Burning Man
Demna, Veronica Leoni, and Louise Trotter and the rave aesthetic: it has nothing to do with the networking o that scrolls across screens every day. It is an aesthetic escape...
How porn, once a political project, became the most catalogued sector on the web
The passport to pleasure: how porn went back to asking for your documents: from the magazine under the mattress to the hundred billion of the digital market
About Netsuke – carved in ivory or wood, hidden in kimonos
Netsuke are carved counterweights, worn at the waist to balance a pouch tied to a kimono sash. Merchants wore them against silk for decades, and the friction finished the carving
The right to disappear: nun core and the end of the hot girl summer
From Nun Girl Summer to the medieval Beguines, Melissa Febos's The Dry Season traces what remains when desire stops pointing toward someone else — and who, finally, it belongs to
What do young creators do for a living? Different jobs, sex working too
Showing off online for money can help pay the rent and be a political act. They don't have clients, but a lot of fans
The Algorithm and the Hating: how outrage became fashion’s invisible engine
From Crocs to Balenciaga, ridicule has accelerated trends rather than ended them. Three voices from inside the industry explain why — and what it costs
Why are you always somewhere else? Xevi Solà, some paintings
From fashion photography to Lucian Freud, by way of Jonh Cheever, Catalan painter Xevi Solà explains how he builds characters who are always somewhere else
The value of coconut husk fiber: what to do with the 85 percent we burn
Coir board holds together without synthetic glue, using lignin present in the material. What happens when the waste stream becomes the raw material? Where the sustainability claim runs into trouble?
Léon Prost: documenting without distance
Flash, and refusal of idealization: photography as exchange rather than performance, Léon Prost - the images resist polish in favor of directness
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
Ninety-five percent water, five percent collagen: the jellyfish washing ashore as a textile
Salted, cross-linked, dyed with medieval egg yolk: researchers in the Netherlands, Japan and Israel are turning jellyfish collagen into fabric that behaves like skin because – structurally – it still is
How CHART 2026 is redefining the art fair model: in conversation with Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Lowering the threshold without lowering artistic ambition: CHART Art Fair’s approach to new collectors, public engagement and contemporary art
Sea resources: Bysco’s naturally sourced textile fiber from mussel waste
Bysco developed a textile fiber that comes from mussel secretions. Its technical properties can allow the replacement of synthetic fibers like fiberglass and polyester
The Director Who Came From Fashion: Pop Music’s New Image Economy
Today, pop artists hire directors from fashion's inner circle. The resulting videos carry fashion's grammar — and what that trade costs the music remains an open question
Working titanium: anodizing, welding and printing the metal that won’t apologize
Fifty cents of titanium equals thousands in gold: the metal builds its case in jewelry on strength, purity and permanence: resistant to resizing, soldering, and to the market logic of...
The Bauhaus produced its own image with the same method it used for chairs
Photography arrives late at the Bauhaus and becomes the language through which the school builds and circulates its own image — the book New Woman, New Vision
LVMH, Chanel – why are the big groups buying up Italian artisans?
It may look like a new form of colonization – but there are positive outcomes, and greater protections: a reflection on the Italian manufacturing district, our heritage
Clitoris: an intersectional perspective on sexual pleasure
Desire is never neutral. From the clitoris erased by theory to a $43 billion wellness market, who gets to feel pleasure safely, and who still doesn't
350 species in one seagrass meadow: how One Ocean Foundation operates
From the Caprera Canyon to Posidonia restoration in Cala di Volpe, One Ocean Foundation builds infrastructure for marine science — the exhibition As Above, So Below in Venice
