Interviews
Lampoon Magazine gathers interviews with fashion designers, photographers, artists, and architects who share insights on balancing creativity and responsibility in the Anthropocene. These conversations explore personal journeys, artistic methods, and the challenges of responding to complex global contexts. Designers discuss reduced production cycles and innovative reuse strategies, while artists reveal how they incorporate fragile human elements and environmental considerations into their work. Photographers describe the impact of analog processes and the inspiration behind capturing raw authenticity. Each interview offers a direct, unfiltered look at the thoughts of creative minds and addresses the significance of community, material integrity, and shared accountability. Lampoon Magazine uses these candid discussions to deepen understanding of artistic motivations and invite open dialogue about future possibilities.
Markus Friedrich Staab: lifting chairs out of the mundane, design is about having fun
Embracing fun as a design philosophy. From Dadaism to Josef Albers, Markus Friedrich Staab reimagines his functional art pieces
Mai-Thu Perret – from an all-female commune in New Mexico to a statue of Minerva in Rome
«I have been thinking about sculpture, statuary and the representations of the human figure in antiquity». Mai-Thu Perret’s exhibition at Istituto Svizzero in Rome
Street style becomes a uniform for climate change, inspired by death
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
Humor and paradox – irony and irreverence in the Italian contemporary art scene
Italian contemporary artist Daniele Sigalot plays with aluminium and other artistic mediums to create a sense of disorientation in the mind of the observer
Half a century of queer history. Stanley Stellar’s street photography and a marginalized community
«We've been portrayed as degenerates or clowns, or sinners, never human. I knew I was recording something that never existed before, and that was freedom of us and acceptance of...
Adiel’s techno music: Human connections are the core of Italian DJ and producer
From spinning discs in a local club in Rome to storming Berghain, Italian DJ Adiel talks about her techno music production
When plastic cannot be enough complicated, you start using ceramic: the case of Diego Cibelli
A journey through the artistic production of the Neapolitan artist Diego Cibelli, who manipulates the daily life objects to reveal their endless meanings
Flash Art – the avant-garde community edited by Gea Politi, Cristiano Seganfreddo
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
How architecture on an urban scale has been weaponized against people and protesters
Griffin Frazen on data visualization, 3D modelling and «using architectural thinking and technical skills to help people understand protests from a spacial perspective»
Alvaro Catalàn de Ocon blending plastic bottle with Bogota’s craftmanship
Alvaro Catalàn de Ocon creates PET lamps: he could be considered a precursor of sustainable design bridging the gap between industrial production and craftmanship
New York – Nicole McLaughlin and SUFE eluding definition: some nostalgia when you’re upcycling an item
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 chaos is always in my mind» – The paradoxical narrative of artist Levi van Veluw
Finding logic in emotions and vice versa. An exploration into the chaos of the mind through tangible artistic dialogues by Levi van Veluw
Body positivity – From architect to visual artist, from Moscow to Milan
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»
Inner demons conquered by the winner of the Hyères Festival 35th
Tom Van der Borght wields the influences of Bjork, his tenure as a social worker: he journeyed through the social issues and communities that marry his refuge
Knitting experimentation and natural dyeing: Olivia Rubens
Olivia Rubens grew bioplastic on material from algae, without releasing toxicity in the process «We use humor as a shield and as a pathway»
Lampoon / Transition: what is normalcy for Tom Van der Borght?
The bombardment of texture, volume and color, the union of playfulness and self-depreciation - and the civil and social commitment
The rebel pianist of France – Sofiane Pamart is mixing neoclassical with rap music
Childhood and adolescence split between conservatory and street, this is how Pamart's love for classical music and rap grew and gave results
Louise Lyngh Bjerregaard: «even though you have full transparency, things can still be intriguing»
The brand carving new shapes of communication. Louise Lyngh Bjerregard is all about exploring vulnerability and investigation through upcycled materials
Theo Jansen and his beach creatures – Breaking the wall between art and engineering
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...
Masculinity/Femininity. The revelation of fantasy according to Flaminia Veronesi
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?
Jamie Sutherland’s sense of childish play and hoarding as multidisciplinary creative tools
«Wherever I went, I went with myself, and I couldn't escape the person that I was in all those different scenarios» – Jamie Sutherland on creating imagined realities as a...
Vitra Design’s director, Mateo Kries, reimagines the role of museums in post-pandemic society
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»
Nanushka – Reselling brands should inform customers how to sell a garment once they no longer want it
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
Alie, third studio album for the French indie duo Cats on Trees
«We've regained the freshness of our early days, while also growing in maturity». With their brand new album as Cats on Trees, the French duo is back to big on...
Are we ever completely still? Yann Marussich’s investigations of immobility through performance
«My work is about pain, accepting it, going with the flow of pain, to not feel it, not be affected by it, and this has been my work for over...
Michele Rizzo, Walking and (cat)walking – the impact of performances: from Marni to Off-White
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...
Sussy Cazalet on designing rugs and wall hangings. «Rothko-meets-Mondrian-meets-Klimt»
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...
Weaving stories of Balkan heritage into three-dimensional tapestries: House of Ita
«Now we call it sustainability. But using materials that already had a life gives them and our story a continuity». In conversation with textile designer Margarita Aleksievska Sclavi, House of...
ACBC, Italian footwear: accountability from the brands rather than knowledge from the consumers
Gio Giacobbe and Edoardo Iannuzzi: the Italian footwear startup expands the fashion industry’s focused sustainability efforts to a holistic circular model through collaborations
The Kingdom Choir – the British choir reintroducing Gospel music into the mainstream
«We came in as strangers and we left as family»: The The Kingdom Choir was on stage in Milano, in Via Spiga, for a celebration made possible by Ralph Lauren
References to literature and cinema: an aesthetic guide from Giangi Giordano
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
Zanele Muholi and the urge of militancy: «Visual activism is my calling, it chose me»
Zanele Muholi: «Even if a picture cannot reveal all of a person’s personality and humanity, it can provide a moment for themselves and others to recognize their uniqueness»
AIKO – latest book by photographer Florian Hetz: the art of losing and acceptance in the pictures
AIKO is the new photobook of the German photographer, with a special dedication. The loss of his father, the leitmotiv of bodies and the beauty of colours and light in...
Loose Joints – Changing the dialogue of photography in the South of France
«I think we are always trying to find stuff that’s pushing the dialogue forward about photography, rather than looking at archives», Lewis Chaplin, founder of Loose Joints
Women are not sexual objects. Miss Beige’s performances prove it
From Mother Mary’s crown to black baby Jesus, Miss Beige has a myriad of advocacy to convey
Mia Moretti and poetry as a therapy for the self – the case of an anthology
The kind of love for Mia Moretti: «the one that makes you see that in yourself and makes you want to grow to take yourself on a journey of growth»
Bertjan Pot some of the finest elements are the simplest ones
From Random Light to his ongoing series Masks, Dutch designer Bertjan Pot has been designing products based on materials and techniques, leaving the narratives to the viewer
Virgo Sun and Rising: the astrology of the architecture and architects of the past – Bianca Felicori
Bianca Felicori’s Forgotten Architecture highlights unknown and lesser-known architecture products the present is yet to know
Streetwear before its advent in the fashion sphere, the narration of the VNGRD brand
The VNGRD publication reconnects the roots of streetwear with its entry into the Milanese and international fashion scene
Techno master Richie Hawtin explores the connection between sound and fashion for Prada
«Richie Hawtin is the extrovert guy and Plastikman is the introverted side of my personality» – In conversation with one of the biggest names in the techno music scene
The story of two emerging jewelry labels: Carolina Dória and Virginia Evangelista
Sustainable materials and virtual models coexisting with traditional craftsmanship. This is how the future of the jewelry industry looks for the upcoming designers
Microbiology and digital technology merge into the art of quantum physics
Currently studying bacterial cultures and bacteria contamination, through his art Giuseppe Lo Schiavo explores the advantages of social organizations
Managing the territory and its complexity: Gian Maria Tosatti’s portrait of Europe
«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...
The meaning of white in Iceland: a journey through the world of Tamara Ferioli
Tamara Ferioli’s artistic production is a visual diary of her life and inner world, connected to Iceland’s culture and natural landscapes
Dom Pérignon, Lady Gaga and Nick Knight team up to declare the Queendom
Lady Gaga and Nick Knight create a queendom for Dom Pérignon: «Patriarchy gave birth to the idea that the kingdom was the greatest thing of all, so we declare the...
From the Renaissance masters to Rick Owens: all the influences of Pietro Franceschini
«Sometimes it is interesting to think of the same object in different versions; by changing the material, everything else changes»
