Softspot 2025 gift guide or the everyday materials to

or the everyday materials to be found in Faye Toogood’s studio

wondering what to cook with what we’ve got

Machines and Robots speculates on whether machines could also be creative

Anna Barbieri

Softspot 2025 gift guide or the everyday materials tosoftspot is a fragile space seeking to make sense of a complex now. Imagined as a container for the near and the close, it contains a patchwork of prose, verse and visual work that oscillate between the subjective and the objective. more Written through the lens of one writer and augmented by a conversation of contributions and references, the book represents a study in how words can be written and how they can be held in a hand. Each softspot