A new guide from Start with Data argues that taxonomy — the naming system, the category tree, the controlled vocabulary that every commerce platform runs on — is quietly being recognised as a design discipline, with large language models now auto-mapping supplier categories, proposing synonyms at scale, and surfacing emerging categories no human has yet named.

Today's signal sits across three movements. Craft as living archive: the European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy maps how 3D scans, hand-motion capture and blockchain provenance are bringing embodied gesture into the fashion-heritage record, Reverie Page covers Arth Atelier's exhibition Anchored in Motion which presents craftsmanship as continuous practice rather than finished object, and the Sustainability Directory puts the global handmade-crafts market  ...