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Music and Performance
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...
Agricultural field / natural fiber crop landscape. Photo: Kristaps Ungurs
Fashion
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?
Barnabé Fillion for Arpa Studios, 2020. 
Sound Industry
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
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Sound Industry
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
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Natural Materials
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...
olorful abstract paintings leaning against a studio wall.
Design
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
Netsuke
Crafting
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
Sex
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