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First week of a month: a digest of psychedelics and creative culture, followed two weeks later by an in-depth interview with the researchers, designers, and thinkers shaping the field.

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  1. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Psy*Design Monthly — August 2026: Art as Therapy (opens the original)

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    Editor’s NoteYayoi Kusama passed away on 14 August, aged 97. She had been having hallucinations since she was ten, and she spent nearly eighty years building containers for them. “If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,” she said.In 1977, she checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo that offered art therapy courses and provided Kusama with the stability needed to pursue her projects without distraction. This was a very intentional choice, an artist setting

  2. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    Last Day for Summer Sale (opens the original)

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    The fifth edition of the world’s leading gathering at the intersection of psychedelics, design, and creativity returns online on 6–7 November 2026 — with Rick Doblin, Robin Carhart-Harris, Marlena Robbins (Diné), Josh Rubin, David Coveney and Joyce Braverman among confirmed speakers, a programme exploring design as a living ecology, and the live reveal of the 2026 Psychedelics Design Awards winners. Tickets go from £25 to £35 on September 1st!<a class="button primary" href="https://www.

  3. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    Nutritious – How the Room Plays You Back (opens the original)

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    Welcome to Psychedelics Design – where design meets psychedelics!Nutritious — artist, DJ, producer, founder of Liquid Culture Records, founding team member of DoubleBlind Magazine, and the composer of this podcast’s theme — has spent more than two decades reading rooms for a living. The Whitney Museum. Pikes Ibiza. Rodarte at New York Fashion Week. All-night, all-vinyl residencies in the East Village. Three or four turntables treated like live instruments.Which makes him the right person to answ

  4. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    Sound & Setting: Nutritious on Reading Rooms, Liquid Culture, and Why Nature Is the Ultimate Psychedelic (opens the original)

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    Editor’s NoteWe talk constantly about set and setting — about how music shapes a room and the people inside it. I wanted to ask the question the other way round. How does the room shape the music?Nutritious was the right person to ask. He has played the Whitney Museum, Pikes Ibiza, Rodarte at New York Fashion Week; he has toured internationally with Mark Farina; he treats three or four turntables like live instruments. He was also a member of the founding team at DoubleBlind, which makes this co

  5. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    Psy*Design Monthly — July 2026: The Tipping Point (opens the original)

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    Editor’s NoteThere is a version of this moment that is easy to celebrate. Eli Lilly just paid $3.8 billion for a psychedelic drug company. The FDA published its first-ever clinical trial guidance for psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA. Compass Pathways reported the durability data it needed to complete its New Drug Application. Definium’s LSD stock doubled. Our partner Nutritious released an album that sounds like what the inside of a good day feels like. Dr. Grace Blest-Hopley gave the opening keynote a

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