A daily field guide to visual culture
Art, architecture, nature, and design, discovered and shared since 2009.
We sorted the Moss & Fog archive by feel: five shelves, Taste, Smell, Touch, Sound and Sight, and a new way into seventeen years of stories.
Thirteen museums built to be worth the journey on their own, from a grain silo carved into galleries in Cape Town to a mirrored bowl in Rotterdam holding an entire collection.
From the kukeri of Bulgaria to the caretos of Portugal, seven European villages that spend midwinter in fur, horns and bells, driving the dark half of the year out of town.
16 Years of Exploration
The Atlas
Eight curated destinations across architecture, nature, art, design, and beyond: the best of Moss & Fog, all in one place.
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.
Rare Trees
$40
Mushroom Hat, Mustard Corduroy
$40
Terrazzo Gem Soap, Mini
$7
Mini Wireless Color Changing Lamp
$25
Gravitas Stacking Game
$49
Thick Lines Tree Souvenir Patch
$8.50
Pocket Terrarium / Self Sustaining Miniature Ecosystem
$11
Cabin Porn
$40
Colour Hexagon Enamel Tray
$17.50
The Outdoors Oracle
$29.95
Field Studies Vol. III: The Rare Ones (Set of Four Printable Art Prints)
$6
Max Dinnerware, Bowls (Set of 6)
$51 We sorted the Moss & Fog archive by feel: five shelves, Taste, Smell, Touch, Sound and Sight, and a new way into seventeen years of stories.
An interactive, painted map of how autumn color sweeps across the United States and Canada, September through November, with a date slider, a timelapse, and a button that finds you in the season.
Mycelium leather, timber skyscrapers, sand batteries and ferries that fly. Twenty-five sustainable designs, from biomaterials to clean tech, that prove the future can be beautiful.
Thirteen museums built to be worth the journey on their own, from a grain silo carved into galleries in Cape Town to a mirrored bowl in Rotterdam holding an entire collection.
From gravity-defying paintings to double-exposure dreamscapes, these are the eight most hypnotic surreal artworks we’ve discovered, and adored.
It looks like a fairytale forest powered by Victorian steam tech, but the machinery isn’t just for show.
Autumn travels. We followed it to six places where the season is spectacular and the crowds have not caught on yet, from a Hokkaido volcano to a Hungarian marsh full of cranes.
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