Herringbone the cloth, with its distinctive zigzag pattern, has been around since 600 BC. Herringbone the label hasn't been around quite that long, but they still make timeless stuff.

John Casey has left his mark on us. Quite literally: we ordered stamps from his tiny New York store to shoot the volume seven cover. And you can too.

There are a few things you expect from an online store. Nice products, home delivery, good service and such. You don't expect to learn stuff. Tell that to Kaufmann Mercantile.

Once the domain of cyber punks and disenfranchised nerds, Max Ogden is turning the idea of hacking on its head, using its open-source anarchy for community benefit.

Luke Stockdale is a graphic designer and handyman from Melbourne who is making steel signs in Nashville, Tennessee, as Sideshow Sign Co. 

We recently learnt that a shoemaker is not a cobbler (he's the repair guy) but a cordwainer. In Australia, there are few finer cordwainers than Belmore. We paid a visit to their factory in Sydney's Inner West, which has been making shoes for over 40 years. 

If you close your eyes and imagine tweed being woven, you might picture a twinkly-eyed family leaning over ancient looms in a dusty workshop set in rolling green fields. Meet Molloy & Sons and imagine no more.

When things break, they're finished, right? Not so for Paulo Goldstein.

Behind every good product, there is a great workshop. CDR (short for Craft, Design, Realisation) makes tables, bookshelves and chairs at a large space in Botany, Sydney. In a new section on the Smith site, we take a look at what goes on behind the scenes.

Here's a cycle story from over Western Australia way, where Matt Andrews is fusing art and architecture into custom Flying Machine frames with offbeat paint jobs.