The twelfth issue of MacGuffin is dedicated to 'The Log' and takes a walk in the woods to explore the design and politics of timber. From the last Norwegian trunks that floated down the Glomma to the indigenous logs that help map the Amazon, and from Jamaican lacebark trees to online chatbots: meet the logs that function as totems, design tools, oracles, wormholes, comic figures, activist artworks, village idiots, prison cells, logbooks, nightmares and dreams. Our favorite articles in this issue present an appraisal of Lina Bo Bardi wooden furniture and an insight into the railway sleepers of Mien Ruys. And naturally we are a big fan of Rotterdam based artist Frank Bruggeman, whose work is featured on the cover. Featuring: James Beckett, José Bessa Freire, Khaled Jarrar, Emily King, Eliot Haworth, Rudy Guedj, Ellef Prestsæter, Olga Prader, Formafantasma, Santídio Pereira, SulSolSal, Max Lamb, Kai Lobjakas, Lou-Lou van Staaveren and many, many more.