I work in a messy, dirty way. Beneath the roughness of grainy canvas and cadmium underpainting, Amit Berman stages male nudity as a zone of negotiation – trauma and tenderness, sex and self-approval

The automotive industry leaves behind a global trail of damage: a residual mix of plastic, foam, glass fibres, and micro-tissues is mostly landfilled. Not easy to clean this up

Through cross-dressing and cleansing, the men envisioned by photographer Alvarez Garcia and stylist Andrea Colace explore femininity without renouncing masculinity

Blending traditional tools and contemporary technology, artist illustrator François Berthoud carves linoleum plates by hand, uses vegetable-based ink and plays with net distortions, celebrating process over product

When luxury deserves respect: 250 new jobs in a French province, education and culture in a manufacturing district, handmade saddle stitching

From Amsterdam, BYBORRE has established a new model of digital manufacturing that blends transparency, precision, and responsibility — proving that technology can help fashion produce less, but better.

Vienna’s Gugumuck Farm: free-range snails grown on kitchen scraps and herbs can out-perform chickens and pigs in feed efficiency and shrink agriculture’s footprint

Olivier Zahm reconnects with the emotional essence of image-making: his portraits of Annabelle Weatherly reveal clarity and vulnerability, while Duran Lantink’s sculptural forms redefine beauty itself

Yuri Tuma, co-founder of the Institute of Postnatural Studies: snail mating behaviors that complicate pleasure, violence, and post-patriarchal sex narratives in backyard biodiversity hotspots

Snail mucin, gardening blogs, Derek Jarman, and heterotopias: a multi-layered reading of the garden as a metaphor for systemic violence