Plenty of food for thought this week. Recently in The Netherlands for the 6th Premsela lecture, Nancy Etcoff argues for the psychological essentialness of beauty and how fashion and science should be fused. Arnhem graduates reinterpret everyday materials to create exquisite objects and we see what happens when non-fashion designers work with clothing. In examining the ethics behind technological innovation and questioning our relationship with products, Studio Wieki Somers plays with symbolic objects and materials to paint an emotional picture: for example, what if products could be made from human ashes?