Our friends in Moscow had their poster-printing chops down well before the Bolsheviks turned up.

Ever gone over to a mate's and wished that you could leave with a few choice objects? Melbourne's 'Open House' gives free reign to this whim; objects include furniture by Smith Journal volume one alumnus, Greg Hatton.

Handmade gifts beat store-bought, hands down. And handmade products beat factory-produced goods, nine times out of ten. Made By Hand is a Brooklyn-based website that documents and promotes the emerging move away from mechanised manufacturing to making things the old fashioned way.

How's this for niche: Daniel Heer's family have been in the hand-crafted horsehair mattress business since 1907. 

Philosopher, artist, madman, genius - what's in a name anyway? Joe Davis is a man who thinks big, talks fast, and initiates some unusual projects combining science and philosophy to question reality, religion, and human nature.

Bees are busy. Not only are they one half of the most famous sex education program on the planet, but they're also makers of the sweetest kind.

Film nerds, rejoice — we may well have found your new favourite website.

Rob Cordiner gave us a tour of his Melbourne studio, Parts & Crafts, for Smith Journal volume one. There was so much to cover that we couldn't talk in detail about his publishing house, Smalltime Books. This is the story.

The American Alpine Club is a non-for-profit advocacy group for rockclimbers, mountaineers and generally alpine-inclined outdoorsy types.

There's one thing we know about Canadians: they don't take kindly to bullshit. Maybe that's why Vancouver natives Savannah Olsen and Walter Manning opened Old Faithful Shop.