MOLD

MOLD is a magazine available both online and in print that focuses on shaping the future of food. Our team of editors delivers thorough and original reporting, exploring how design can change our food systems. We highlight groundbreaking concepts in food design and technology, ranging from cellular agriculture and 3D food printing to the use of insects as food and the impact of well-designed tableware on your dining experience. MOLD shines a light on the innovative ideas set to transform how we grow, cook, and enjoy food in the future.

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MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

1 week ago | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

Publishing MOLD for the past twelve years has taught me many lessons but perhaps the most important one in this moment of personal and planetary transition is untangling myself from capitalist notions of time. I’ve adopted a personal mantra of being “on tree time.” It is a skein that weaves together two threads: the myriad rhythms that orient perceptions of time and the recognition that many environmental and community conditions have to align for ideas to take root.
Worldbuilding and the Future of Cookbooks

1 week ago | thisismold.com | Julia Skinner

This is the final piece of Wayfinding, a series on the history and design of cookbooks. The history of cookbooks sprinkles its guideposts across many disciplines and avenues for inquiry—from medicine, travel, alchemy to agriculture and beyond. By following the path of cookbook history, we necessarily spread our attention in many directions, and examine food from many angles. The future of cookbooks asks this of us, too.
MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

1 week ago | thisismold.com | Jake Stavis

Did you know that there’s a kelp farm in the Superfund site between Brooklyn and Queens? What sounds like a Lana del Rey B-side is in fact the promising work of Seaweed City, a grassroots organization founded by designers and community activists Shanjana Mahmud and Luke Eddins. Although the project started just four years ago as a casual experiment through the Newtown Creek Alliance, it has flourished into an ever-expanding citizen-science project to revitalize New York’s urban waterways.
A Solstice Goodbye

1 week ago | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

After 12 years of publishing MOLD, we are throwing a little party on our final day. Join us in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for a Summer Solstice celebration with our sister organization, Field Meridians and help us say goodbye and thank you to our incredible community of editors, contributors, and readers.
How to leave tech to become a farmer

2 weeks ago | thisismold.com | Isabel Ling

In RECOMMONING, we are searching out a more open, collectively held world where, once again, land is held in common. A collaborative series with Dark Properties. Back in 2018, I left a cushy tech job to move to the woods. When people asked why I was leaving, I told them I was going upstate to start an artist residency. While true, this didn’t tell the full story.
The Ephemeral and the Durable

3 weeks ago | thisismold.com | Julia Skinner

This is the third part of Wayfinding, a series on the history and design of cookbooks. I’m sitting on the floor of my office, sorting my family’s recipe cards into folders. A former archivist, it’s important to me that these are preserved long-term, which means buffered archival folders and boxes. Recipe cards are ephemeral: due in part to their acidic cardstock and in part to the limited cultural value assigned to them.
MOLD commits to PACBI

1 month ago | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

Today marks the 600th day since Israel launched a full scale war to mask their campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people. MOLD stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation against the Israeli occupation and genocide. We continue to honor the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their right to be in relationship and stewardship of their homelands.
MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

1 month ago | thisismold.com | Ruth Gebreyesus

Border Ecologies is a two-part inquiry into borders, exploring their ecological reality along with their economic and political origin and uses. How do you make injera? How do you make a nation? In every telling I’ve heard since leaving Ethiopia, injera refuses to be made outside of its homeland. Every story of a successfully baked injera in the United States, even in neighboring Sudan, is either a rumor, a failure, or a belabored experiment that loses integrity and appeal.
Scent Memory of a City's Past

2 months ago | thisismold.com | Sharmila Vaidyanathan

I met multidisciplinary artist Indu Antony when we were both presenting at an ethnography symposium. My paper was about what it meant for an individual to explore the city of Bengaluru on foot. Antony, on the other hand, talked about what it meant to do the same, guided by your nose. Intrigued by her project, I approached Antony after the seminar. She was standing near a table where she laid out a range of vials and scented papers ensconced in large glass bell jars to protect their odours.
Indigenous TEK for a Climate Resilient LA

Mar 26, 2025 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

This piece is a part of our series Metabolic Systems which looks into the cycles that underpin our cultures of consumption, from decay to digestion. In the first week of the new year, we witnessed an incomprehensible tragedy unfold before our eyes: Los Angeles was on fire. For 24 days, 14 firestorms tore through the city sparing nothing. The fire had its own logic, taking family homes in the historically black neighborhood of Altadena and leveling seaside mansions along the Pacific Palisades.