We're not sure how we first stumbled upon the work of Jed Lind, but his photo series, Small is Beautiful, was one of the visual high points of Smith Journal volume one. We recently spoke to the artist about his wider body of work, fly fishing and living in L.A.

A future wherein used books are sold in secret sounds like a dystopian nightmare. But that's what's come to pass for Michael Seidenberg.

Temperatures in Sweden might be hovering around the single digits right now, but we'd risk a little frostbite to get a closer look at the Treehotel in Harads in the country's north.

Well. This is embarrassing. See, up until watching the preview for Eames: The Architect and The Painter, a few of us thought that this mysterious 'Eames' person was, in fact, a single guy. When, as it turns out, there were two of them: Charles and Ray, an architect and a painter.

We’d never heard of a ‘fleshing wheel’ until we spoke to taxidermist Ryan Hanley for Smith Journal volume one.

"The good things in life still exist" is both the word and deed of Germany company Manufactum, which sources purposeful objects that are made using traditional manufacturing methods and materials.

You can study at fancy schools for years or you can just start making stuff at home. Butch Anthony chose the latter.

Extravagantly haired social theorist and raconteur Malcolm Gladwell made his return to the TED conference with this heartwarming story of the Norden bombsight, a revolutionary device designed to make carpet-bombing a little less indiscriminate circa World War II.

If you love something you set it free, right? Not always. According to the man behind Feather and Bone, Grant Hilliard, if you’re going to eat something then you should at least know where it came from, how it was raised and the way it died.

Bob Swerer Sr. is an outdoorsman first and filmmaker second. Based at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Bob Sr’s films document the wild just outside his doorstep and the frozen Alaskan ‘beyond’. It was through these films that we discovered Richard (Dick) Proenneke who we featured in Smith Journal volume one.