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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UN’s Convention to combat Desertification highlights gender inequality issues
Women play a role to ensure the health of the land. The UN’s Convention educates about effectively working the land and destroying barriers for women
Workaholics vs. artisanship, the Fendi collection is for men who create
Using the Fendi Factory landscape as inspiration, Silvia Venturini reveals its sphere of development. The menswear line comes as a praise to the production chain
What happens in Milan stays in Milan. Dear reader, don’t read
Benedetta Spreafico, Matei Octav, Tea Barbagallo team up for a story where escapism seems the last chance of contemporary man choked by society's self-imposed
Skyscrapers rise, New York sinks: How the many buildings are making the city sink
New research has found that New York City is sinking at an average rate of 1-2 mm per year. The Big Apple is in a race against time to find...
Felipe Escudero and the architectonic revolution in Quito – a reportage
An Architect from Ecuador is rebuilding Quito based on his Stanley Kubrick aesthetic passion. Felipe Escudero, brings a holistic approach prioritizing the positive impact on the surrounding community
Using beauty and ugliness together – Thirza Schaap’s plastic waste sculptures
Hidden behind the surface – In her photographs, Dutch artist Thirza Schaap uses plastic waste as a material to create sculptures that mix daintiness and disgust
The topoi of human history – present and past in Pietro Ruffo’s work
Geographic maps and writing, geometric overlays and experimentation with different materials: the breakdown of Pietro Ruffo’s operas and career
Objects of Common Interest: design is halfway between ephemeral and concrete
Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis are the creative minds behind the design duo Objects of Common Interest: Milan Design Week, Poikilos at Nilufar Depot
World Oceans Day: the impact of offshore oil and gas on the oceans
The Rosebank oil and gas field located 130 km from the Shetland archipelago could affect 16 British Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): the World Oceans Day
Quira: an insight into contemporary femininity through the materiality of clothes
Veronica Leoni, finalist at the LVMH Prize 2023, recounts herself and her brand Quira through the names of the people and places that have defined her path
In conversation with Jayden Elijah: «I was a quiet kid, well that’s what my mom says»
Currently seen starring in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dee Rees newest TV show, Saint X, Jayden Elijah, opens up to Lampoon digital edition
COP28 – we had 27 conferences already and still no real outputs
UAE Dubai's COP28: Nations around the world have taken measures towards dealing with the climate catastrophe, but with time its consequences have only worsened
Green is burning: Andriu Deplazes’ first Italian solo show at Collezione Maramotti
When something is burning it recalls us that «we are closer to the actual war that is happening now than we think we are», explains Deplazes about his exhibition
What does the Rana Plaza disaster mean for the fashion industry after ten years?
The biggest disaster that happened in the fashion world and caused by the sick logic of the system, how the industry evolved
The ordinary absurdity of mundane lives – Marivan Martins for Lampoon online
«This series is an ode to it. It is totally ordinary and totally cheesy. It is about trying to watch the royal wedding. It is about feeling special on your...
Dear Diary: a teen drama photo editorial by Andrea D’Auria, Lampoon Digital Edition
«Dear Diary, I wanted to tell you that I have nothing more to tell you. Everything that happened cannot be written» – Andrea D'Auria for Lampoon Online
Design and humankind: Marcel Wanders, the AI speculation in Milano with Moooi
«We are a design company, not a styling company», a talk with Marcel Wanders and the EveryHuman's Algorithmic Perfumery, a project for Moooi
Tearing down love from its pedestal — introducing Ryder The Eagle
In conversation with French singer Ryder The Eagle, for the release of his newest album Megachurch: Tearing down love from its pedestal while keeping faith in life and music
Art at its highest altitude. The reality of Hauser & Wirth St. Mortiz
Giorgia von Albertini, director of Hauser & Wirth St. Mortiz, on her approach to contemporary art: «the opening in December 2018 was a natural extension of the gallery’s activities in...
Being a duo but individual collections: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
For the first time in more than twenty years of career, by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec presents two separate collections for Flos at Euroluce 2023
Climate change and infectious diseases – understating how the arthropod vectors work
Climate change and arthropod vectors - new research shows that climate change is causing the diffusion of the arthropod vectors in higher elevations and latitudes
Fosbury Architecture, decentralizing spaces: Everyone Belongs to everyone else
Fosbury Architecture, a collective curating the 18th Venice Biennale, challenges the norms of the exhibition., «pushing people to go outside the outskirts of the Biennale»
SpazioSerra and Virginia Dal Magro – the undefined movement of traces and spaces
«It can become a concept of above and below, of visible and invisible, of natural and artificial». Observing the gap in between and the threshold in creation
Fabio Quaranta: what happens in the post-menswear era?
Fabio Quaranta: interdisciplinary collective instead of fashion brands, archives instead of collections - «I felt the need to lose the authorial, individual aspect»
«To catch an idea you need to go primitive»: a conversation with Guglielmo Poletti
Spring Studio introduces Guglielmo Poletti's work. The designer aims to display style as a derivation of structure. Construction becomes a meaningful aesthetic
From technology and transhumanism to creating tribes: Roberto Rigon’s graphic niche
What to expect from creative merging with artificial intelligence? A conversation with Roberto Rigon, the creative director that already uses it in editorial design
Naomi Accardi: a niche that involves football and fashion
«I also feel compelled that the time has come to allow others to have a voice» Naomi Accardi traces a path for sports and fashion storytellers
Dior’s feminist deployment marks Cruise 2024 show in Mexico
The French brand lands in Latin America to rediscover traditions and urges through the evocation of the figure of Frida Kahlo
Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana: Apacheta, stone towers to mark your path
Through the Apacheta at Milan Design Week 2023, Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana form a union rooted in Argentina, Territorio Hibrido
Fact-checking: is the use of coal making a comeback? – An international analysis
Expansion of renewables will lead to a decline of twenty-eight percent in the EU power sector's CO2 emissions by 2025 and in fossil fuel-fired generation from 2023
Digital disruption in Milan contemporary art scene: Bubbles at the Hangar Bicocca
The evolution of museums: becoming digital requires an integrated approach and a shared effort - in collaboration with Studio Leftloft
The roughness of your tongue: spotlight and retro lights, Thomas Aulagner
Between Fight Club and Trainspotting. photographer Thomas Aulagner and stylist Anaïs Kevorkian for Lampoon Digital Edition: cinematic touch, humidity and rough skin
The 76th edition of the Cannes Festival. What happens in the French Riviera Cinema
With an ode to Catherine Deneuve, the 76th Cannes Festival in France remains a closed-circle ceremony. The Jury presided by Ruben Östlund looks for innovation
The Japan Meteorological Agency: how is arctic warming linked to East Asia?
The Japan Meteorological Agency: the city of Mohe close to the Russian border, recorded its lowest temperature, minus 53 degrees Celsius, on January 2023
Alteration Space – Virtual clothing, a sustainable way to compensate fast fashion damage
«3d modeling allows you to save on tailoring samples, speeds up the process, and increases productivity while saving resources»
A reportage by Gió Sbriz in Estonia: here Russia is closer than ever
Photographer-reporter Gió Sbriz catapults us into a little-known reality: far from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, on the border between Russia and Eastern Estonia
Consumerist culture attempts to turn humans into commodities. Filip Custic
As a former marketing student, Filip Custic questions the risks of capitalist culture, which argues that existence is more valuable if it can be monetized
Magic mushrooms implied in microdosing practice: Madison Margolin
After Adderall: increasing productivity through psychedelic substances in daily intakes, Madison Margolin's report
Ordering the chaos – Gina Soden: the layers of our relationship with ruins
Architectural photography – In her photographic love letters to architecture, the British artist Soden captures the beauty of forgotten spaces across Europe
Renaissance in Ferrara – Palazzo dei Diamanti re-opening by Studio Labics
Ancient and contemporary meet: architecture is a living art – the heritage of historical buildings must be made accessible and contemporary. Studio Labics vision
Kiko Kostadinov and his take on Kazuhide Takahama for MDW
Though it’s not his first attempt at interior design, «the challenging part was working with pre-existing timeless pieces», said Kiko Kostadinov to Lampoon
Eurovision for the future: Live music begins again thanks to the Song Contest edition in Rotterdam
Cultural diversity expressed through pop music is the European method of choice to have a head start after more than one year without live performances
Near the Argentario in Tuscany, is Argentaia – a fairy tale by Lukas Wassmann
Rocks have to be broken, it takes time a castle has to be built, it takes eight years – photography Lukas Wassmann, stylist Edem Dossou for Lampoon 18, the Crafted
Laura Schaeffer for Lampoon Digital – Rivers in jars and tears on a sunny day
The polarity of darkness and light, the coexistence of joy and sadness, the duality of human existence - Laura Schaeffer for Lampoon Online
The revolution in Iran where poetry takes part – Bita Malakuti speaks of Islamic womanhood
To speak about your country when you can't speak about your lover's body. Before leaving Iran, Malakuti faced censorship as much as appreciation as a theater critic
Trashion Report – Clothing waste from Europe is harming people and nature in Kenya
Trashion, the stealth export of waste plastic clothes to Kenya – Wealthy countries' fashion addiction is impacting the Global South through the used clothes trade
