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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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
Audible brings Dracula to Venice: a full-cast audio series in seven languages
Robin Morgan-Bentley describe what happens in casting, microphone technique and editing when a story has no image
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
The fault is the last human trait: Jonathan Llense photographs circuits that stay unlit
Every screen is engineered to ignite at a touch: Jonathan Llense assembles complete circuits that withhold the spark, and claims failure as the gesture reserved for the human
Hélène Giannecchini and an Army of Lovers – how you process friendship today?
History asks us to rethink friendship as a political form of care. An interview with Hélène Giannecchini explores friendship as a radical way of living together
Indian cotton varieties: some seeds forgotten for 40 years
Aditi Mayer's The Artisan Archive traces the revival of India's indigenous cotton, from 40-year-old seeds to artisan livelihoods, organic farming, and a more resilient fashion supply chain
Lampoon, Horny for Culture — there is no contemporary culture but sustainability
Lampoon, Horny for Culture: sustainability as the sole form of contemporary culture — something that stimulates the erogenous receptors
Pedro Almodóvar has spent forty years refusing to let stories end
From Madrid's Movida to his most confessional films, the director keeps circling the same obsession: mothers, desire and the ending he still won't accept
Charli XCX killed the erotic album cover
Charli XCX replaced it with something far more seductive. From Roxy Music's exposed bodies to Scorsese, Jacobs, and Cale in a kitchen: desire in music learned to live inside cultural...
Football shirt: the World Cup fetish and the reality show of the male body
From the terraces to fashion, the football shirt is the fetish of a libidinal economy worth 87.5 billion dollars, turning the World Cup into a reality show of the male...
Unisex, androgyny, sex-less design: fashion has always been naked
From the androgynous Nineties to the gender-agnostic collections of 2026: fashion has spent a century trying to neutralize sex – but sex is stronger than fashion
Hugh Herr builds the cyborg: prostheses the brain feels and controls as its own
After losing both legs at seventeen, Hugh Herr turned limitation into design, engineering prostheses that seamlessly connect flesh, skin, nerves and circuits through bidirectional neural interfaces
Lampoon Ruvido — editorial identity and the coherence of a message
Lampoon Ruvido — from an American English vocabulary to ten years of publishing: the coherence of a message and the concept of rough
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Roman couture debut: Fendi after Fendi
The color people actually wear is black, Chiuri says, and she rebuilds a house on that diagnosis: a Fendi couture debut of severity, craft, and almost no fur at all
Wasted Waste: the Czech design project turning textile waste into a systemic question
Wasted Waste began at a waste management facility on the Czech-Polish border – a design project on post-consumer textile disposal, first shown at Milan Design Week
Couture is a dog’s life, and Piccioli signed up at Balenciaga anyway
For fall-winter 2026, Pierpaolo Piccioli stages Balenciaga's fifty-fifth couture collection around a Cité Universitaire courtyard, fusing tailoring and flou to prove couture still breathes today
Versace after Alaïa: what Pieter Mulier will do with bondage
Alaïa and Versace: two opposing visions of sensuality that pulled fashion out of the drawing rooms of the wealthy and into the reality of the body. Mulier and Vitale: the...
Correcting, sculpting, selling: Fashion’s permanent construction site
For fashion low target brands, a Ford Mustang, a Coca-Cola bottle, and a female body obey the same logic: form, desirability, and market value. The industry's real economic engine
The dildo: made in the Stone Age, banned by the Church, sold at Sephora
Female pleasure has always been somebody else's political problem. The history of an object every civilization made and most tried to suppress
