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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.

THE DAILY DISPATCH
Large white mushroom with exposed gills arranged beside broken eggshells and a small piece of red fruit.
Lampoon Issue 34
Fungi have entered the chat
Between the lips or in a bowl. Mushrooms, mold, and contamination. Fungi grow from computer screens - between sterile environments and humidity
Translucent circular glass form containing air bubbles of varying sizes, suspended against a pale white background.
Lampoon Issue 34
Bigger than the sperm they float beside: plastic particles found in human semen
Particles carrying traces of mercury have been found in samples from healthy men on three continents — the associations with sperm count keep accumulating
Tomasz Kręcicki painting of a pink fingertip with a translucent drop of liquid suspended beneath it against a black background.
Lampoon Issue 34
Saliva, hygienic or erotic? Tomasz Kręcicki paints a hole in a sock 
From Domenico Gnoli to Lucio Fontana, Tomasz Kręcicki works on transparency, cropping and roughness, painting overlooked materials until they hold more meaning than they should
Portrait of the model in glasses and a dark burgundy coat with a wide collar, eyes lowered.
Lampoon Issue 34
Saliva for the Stranger – Ivan Ugrin for Lampoon SALIVA
An exchange of saliva, sweet and honest spit — even the bacteria on our tongues seem snobbish: they give no consideration to hit-and-run encounters
3D Printing in Fashion: today’s aesthetics are pornographic experiences
Crafting
3D Printing in Fashion: today’s aesthetics are pornographic experiences
From on-demand production and recyclable materials to CGI, technology promises to challenge fashion's culture of excess. Iris van Herpen, Heron Preston, Francis Bitonti, and Grace Ling offer four case studies
Close-up of a cracked, pale circular formation embedded in dark, layered earth, with a narrow rod extending from its center toward the right.
The Art Field
Vital Mud: the Hypothesis that life began in clay
Hiske Altena turns doubt into a method and curiosity into a form of knowledge. A l scientific theory about how everything around us is interconnected.
Close-up portrait of Maja Malou Lyse with voluminous platinum-blonde curls, smoky eye makeup and soft pink lips, photographed by Lalo + Eva
Lampoon Issue 34
Feminist pornography: subverting the dominant gaze
Maja Malou Lyse bought the Marilyn Monroe nude that hung in the Playboy Mansion: the Danish artist on who owns an image of a body, from Annie Sprinkle to the feminist pornography debate
Traditional Japanese sake barrels wrapped in straw, decorated with black calligraphy, green mountain motifs, red seals and colorful floral emblems.
Lampoon Issue 34
Saliva and chewed rice, spat into a jar: kuchikamizake and what Japan offered to the kami
Saliva saccharified the rice before koji mold did, and the drink went to the gods first: a journey through Japanese fermentation, from the Kojiki to a biotoilet built on sake technology
Intimate painting by Pierre Bonnard depicting a seated woman in a loose white robe, bending forward with one bare leg raised across her lap, rendered in muted blue, pink and cream tones.
The Art Field
A Modigliani at $100 million and a box of flashlights on Bantayan
From the Grand Palais, where 211 galleries showed Warhol, Duchamp and Holzer, to the island where the fellowship funded by one of the fair’s partners buys diving lamps
Dieter Urbach's 1971 architectural utopia Großhügelhaus, showing women beside a swimming pool, colorful umbrellas, trees and large sloping residential structures.
Architecture
Josef Kaiser and the modernity of GDR architecture
From Socialist Classicism to functionalist modernism: the transformation of architecture in the GDR through the work of architect Josef Kaiser
Miu Miu installation with a framed artwork against brown curtains and purple flooring.
The Art Field
Art Basel Paris 2026: Alice Diop’s Geste de Consolation brings the Public Program to Palais d’Iéna
At Miu Miu’s Geste de Consolation, Alice Diop turns spectatorship into part of Palais d’Iéna’s architecture, making visitors conscious of how they look, where they sit, and how they are seen
Close-up of a folded linoleum sheet showing its textured backing, smooth surface and curved edge.
Design
What is linoleum? Patented in 1863, it is returning to architecture and design projects
Linoleum is made from linseed oil, pine resin, wood flour and jute, and it takes oxygen and weeks of time to come into being. The "natural" label, however, is not enough to account for its impact
Where does heavy leather come from, and what happens before it becomes a shoe?
Textile Fibers
Where does heavy leather come from, and what happens before it becomes a shoe?
From the structure of collagen to chestnut, mimosa and quebracho tannins: the collaboration between Cuoio di Toscana and Paul Andrew becomes the occasion for an inquiry into heavy leather
Lampoon SALIVA Issue 34 — Horny for Culture, Fall Winter 2026, animated editorial banner exploring saliva, intimacy, science, sex and fashion
Black-and-white close-up of an oyster shell, highlighting its rough, layered texture and natural ridges against a white slatted background
Lampoon Issue 34
Food
Oysters: what the Mediterranean Sea produces
Paolo Varrella farms oysters in the Gulf of Poets whose phytoplankton exists nowhere else in Italy; while Red Oyster and Julia Qiu rebuild a culture Rome had before France did
Ibrahim Mahama, Nyamuthia, 2025–2026. Hanging textile artwork combining burgundy and white striped fabric, overlapping geometric strips and brown cloth covered with small raised elements.
The Art Field
Art Basel Paris 2026: a fifth edition read through its materials
From tar to recycled X-ray silver: how 211 Art Basel Paris exhibitors work their materials, October 23 to 25
Extreme close-up of burgundy lips, exposed teeth and an extended tongue with visible moisture and skin texture.
Naturally Sourced
Humanities
Eighty million bacteria per kiss: saliva, and everything it does when nobody’s watching
Saliva digests, protects, transmits, ferments and cleans centuries-old paintings — a biological interface running on distributed chemistry that requires no central command
Cream Dior Bar jacket with a fitted waist, sculpted hips, notched lapels and five fabric-covered buttons, displayed over a black skirt.
Fashion
People, places, and knowledge behind LVMH: Les Journées Particulières
Les Journées Particulières: LVMH opens the workshops behind its objects
Glowing amber sculpture with rounded protrusions and thin streams of liquid dripping from its edges against a black background
Design
Fashion
Rubber as structure and surface: Rich Aybar tests one material
Photographs of his work read as glass or resin. The haptic quality does not transfer. Aybar asks how far a single material goes as structure, surface, and the layer against the body
Cropped torso wearing a textured cream jacket and low-rise khaki shorts, revealing a dark symbol in the pubic area. Natacha Voranger for Creatives Tool.
Fashion
How much it costs to make an image, and who pays for it
Thirteen years in fashion led Voranger to build Creatives' Tool: it takes rates anonymously and returns median figures by brand, profession and years of experience. A photographer can look up what to charge
Loewe SS27
Fashion
Loewe Spring/Summer 2027: McCollough and Hernandez stage the collection as theater
llough and Hernandez's third show, at the Château de Vincennes for the Loewe spring/summer 2027 collection: balloon skirts like stacked paper, plasticised collars, leather with the seams erased
Lampoon SALIVA, Issue 34, Covers
Lampoon Issue 34
Lampoon SALIVA — the introduction, the editor’s letter
Lampoon SALIVA — the new issue of Lampoon, autumn 2026: a colorless liquid, slightly stringy — a kiss holds 80 million bacteria, Horny For Culture
Pink lace underwear wrapped around the forked trunk of a tree in a forest, surrounded by moss, fallen leaves, and branches.
Sex
What questions would you ask if your pen pal were an 18-year-old female chatbot? Brea Souders
Another online Pervert – Brea Souders turned 2 years of chatbot conversations into images: the chatbot is a "she," programmed by men who taught her how to speak and what to say
Saint Laurent SS27: gold leaf on latex, forty-nine gilded looks
Fashion
Saint Laurent SS27: gold leaf on latex, forty-nine gilded looks
Anthony Vaccarello has spent September inside a succession rumour. His answer at the Trocadéro: fifty-nine looks, forty-nine of them gilded, gold leaf laid on latex, and a black velvet finale
Agar agar, Gelatine, Glycerine. Valeria Pulici, Photography Kira Issar
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?
We are all pornstars now: what my AI deepfakes taught me about the future of desire
Sex
Digital Intelligence
We are all pornstars now: what my AI deepfakes taught me about the future of desire
A digital anthropologist let an AI clone her, then watched her avatar seduce strangers — on avatar envy, looksmaxxing, and the animal fashion keeps putting back on the runway
Archival costume illustration from the Tiffany & Co. Jean Schlumberger exhibition, depicting a theatrical figure in a pale blue and white ruffled outfit with orange accents
High Jewelry
Jean Schlumberger at Tiffany & Co.: I Am Only a Pencil, in Paris
The Exhibition I Am Only a Pencil in Paris: Jean Schlumberger’s creative process at Tiffany & Co., from sketch to workshop
Pillings, friction, wool: when the flaw becomes the design 
Fashion
Pillings, friction, wool: when the flaw becomes the design 
Anatomy of pilling - from fibres, friction and washing to Ryota Murakami, who has made it the language of a brand
Rick Owens Spring Summer 2027: the womenswear collection turns stone into light
Design
Fashion
Rick Owens Spring Summer 2027: the womenswear collection turns stone into light
Stone, the Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear collection, reads the stone as stoicism. The millefoglie jackets take 45 hours each
Balenciaga Summer 2027: Pierpaolo Piccioli rebuilds the basque through the seam
Fashion
Balenciaga Summer 2027: Pierpaolo Piccioli rebuilds the basque through the seam
For Balenciaga Summer 2027, Pierpaolo Piccioli takes basque shapes from the house archive and transfers them onto T-shirts and leather jackets, using exposed seams to build volume from everyday garments
Samnang_Rubber Man_Cambodia
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 came from
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
The Art Field
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
What do young creators do for a living? Different jobs, sex working too
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
Xevi Solà, Dimanche 1, 2025, oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm
The Art Field
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
Nelio Biedermann’s novel Lázár, published by Rowohlt Berlin, with a white horse on a red illustrated book cover.
Literature
Nelio Biedermann: the youngest writer with the oldest story to tell
What began as a teenager’s attempt to write about his family became Lázár: a century-spanning novel of castles, war, desire, instability and disappearing worlds. An interview with Nelio Biedermann
Branislav Šimončík - Alisa Volkova, Vogue Portugal, 2023, Embodiment haute couture collection, A_W 2023–24
Fashion
Radical tailoring: What does it mean today?
Radical tailoring: when tailoring moves beyond human anatomy, using construction to enlarge, displace, and reconstruct the dressed body
Open Studio Homme Plissé Issey Miyake: Henri Matisse, The Snail and the pleats 
Music and Performance
Fashion
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 side.
Mushroom Clouds, Zheng Mahler 08
The Art Field
Mushrooms framed by steel, concrete, and digital code: Zheng Mahler’s Clouds
Built from fungi, fog, datasets, and machine learning, Zheng Mahler's Mushroom Clouds asks what happens when an exhibition becomes a living system
Barnabé Fillion for Arpa Studios, 2020. 
Sound Industry
Design
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
Yuri Kasao Jellyfish Leather
Textile Fibers
Naturally Sourced
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
Lampoon
Naturally Sourced
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
Troye Sivan, Something to Give Each Other, Gordon von Steiner
Fashion
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
Cover_Audible
Sound Industry
Dracula without images: how Audible builds cinematic horror
An interview with Robin Morgan-Bentley, director of scripted drama and original fiction at Audible UK, on how Dracula is built as cinematic audio, from editorial development to studio recording and Dolby Atmos.
Circular illuminated installation of contemporary glass vessels reflected in a dark water surface inside the Homo Faber exhibition space in Venice
Reportage
Crafting
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
One Hundred Chairs by Martino Gamper
Design
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
Michel Blazy Le lâcher d_escargots, 2009
Naturally Sourced
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
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