Aesthetics Research Lab

This Substack will post details of all our publications, events, podcast episodes, and so on, along with thoughts and writings from our editorial team and special guest writers. All content will be freely accessible.

A newsletter about how to reverse engineer feeling good at home, using design.

Essays on philosophy and the arts

Commerce, culture, and curiosity

“All beings share a common world, but each creature has its own way of perceiving this world.” ― Montaigne

An exploration of the ever-evolving fashion sphere.

tracing beauty through aesthetic ethnographic mapping

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Essays and fictions on the places we belong & some of the places we don't

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

What the beauty industry won't tell you, from a reporter on a mission to reform it.

A global analysis of how changing values change business.