Sunday, November 1

A daily field guide to visual culture

Since 2009

The village of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas on Tristan da Cunha, a scatter of small houses on a green coastal plateau between steep slopes and the open South Atlantic

Travel

The Hardest Places on Earth to Reach

Twelve remote places you can still get to, exactly how to do it, and seven more on the far side of the map that are closed for now.

Oct 2911 min read

Sketch of a 1970s style boxed Halloween costume called The Data Center, with a cellophane window showing a server rack costume and a plastic vent mask, a starburst reading Hums All Night, a 99 cent sticker and the line Child Size, Hum Not Included

Design

The Scariest Halloween Costume of 2026 Is an AI Data Center

Cardboard, grey paint, two fans and a very large water bottle. How to build 2026's scariest costume, hum…

Oct 295 min read

Prue, the young heroine of LAIKA's stop-motion film Wildwood, rides on the back of The General, a giant golden eagle puppet with hand-laid feathers, against a sunset sky

Animation

Inside Wildwood, the Stop-Motion Epic LAIKA Built Out of Portland

Fifteen years in the making, LAIKA's Wildwood rebuilds Portland by hand, from a half-scale Pittock Mansion to an…

Oct 2111 min read

Latest

New on Moss & Fog

$The new lowercase Apple Music wordmark in white on black, with a rainbow wave of refracted light rippling through the Apple logo and the end of the word$

Graphic Design

A Logo You Can Hear

Apple Music's new logo was played, not drawn: Fred again.. notes sent through a tray of mineral oil and filmed in camera. Here's how it was made.

Nov 13 min read

Black standing-seam metal A-frame cabin with a projecting entrance and a timber-lined triangular bay window holding a cushioned window seat, set on a lawn with stepping stones and pine trees

Architecture

A Tiny A-Frame Built Around One Window

Poland's Mini Domy gives its little Mini Brda A-frame a bay window with a daybed inside, plus a real bathroom,…

Nov 12 min read

An extreme macro photograph of a moth by Kavaliauskas — revealing the extraordinary wing pattern, eye structure, and delicate scale detail normally invisible to the naked eye

Culture

Welcome to the Dark Half of the Year

Tonight starts the darker half of the year, so we turned off the lights and pulled sixteen of our darkest,…

Oct 315 min read

Mid-century style painting of a witch in a pointed hat and flowing cape riding a chrome jet broom with twin turbines past a huge yellow full moon, a black cat in a bubble basket behind her, over a Space Age city with a needle tower and a monorail

Design

Imagining a Retro-Future Halloween

We made the Halloween brochure the Space Age forgot: a robot at the door, a witch on a jet broom…

Oct 302 min read

Sculpture

Fredrik Raddum Ties His Sculptures in Knots

Fredrik Raddum ties his painted figures in knots. His new Copenhagen show, Arme og Ben, finds the joke hiding between…

Oct 292 min read

Pull up a chair

The most delicious corners of our archive, from a croissant that swallowed a cookie to the Negroni and its century behind the bar. Come hungry!

Food & Drink

Browse seventeen years by color

Pick a color and we pull the stories where it fills the frame.

Red Orange Gold Green Teal Blue Violet Pink Brown Night Fog

Culture

Around now, years ago

Favorites we ran at this time of year, one from each year, still worth your time.

A self-sufficient bivouac shelter by Carlo Ratti Associati, designed for the Alps ahead of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Games — a pod-like structure that generates its own water and electricity while perching in the kind of terrain that has historically just let climbers freeze

2025

Architecture

The guides, our long reads

Where seventeen years of stories are gathered into one place each.

Or wander by subject in the Atlas, by feel in the Senses, or by color further up.

The Shop · Curated Objects

Objects Worth Keeping

Twelve things with a maker behind them, chosen the way we choose what runs on the site: because someone got it exactly right.

Giant Sequoia Pinecones, Set of Three $12

Mossy Walls Room and Body Spray $20

Luna Moth Pin $13

Thick Lines Tree Souvenir Patch $8.50

Pocket Terrarium, Self Sustaining Miniature Ecosystem $11

Cabin Porn $40

Minty Hot Cocoa Tin, Milk Chocolate Mint $17.25

The Outdoors Oracle $29.95

Sapele Balance Stones, Set of Five $79

Field Studies Vol. III: The Rare Ones (Set of Four Printable Art Prints) $6

Max Dinnerware, Bowls (Set of 6) $51 ~~$60~~

Sold out Rare Trees $40

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