Design highlights
Our Loundon Design Festival round up includes foraging food, making hooks, and much more.
Disegno is proud to announce the launch of The Crit: Designers Review Themselves, a new fortnightly podcast in which designers look back on the highlights and lowlights of their careers. The first episode, with Yinka Ilori, is now available to download.
Homo Faber's 2024 festival in Venice traces the journey of life and death and explores the humanity and immortality of craft.
Disegno and BLOND invite you to a panel discussion disentangling inspiration in the design process, as well as the launch of a new issue of the Journal of Design.
The new Residence of the Swiss Ambassador in Algeria bucks the trend of imposing embassy architecture with a modest building designed for family life.
Sarah Brunnhuber creates zero-waste garments with unexpected fringe details that illustrate her production process.
Oli Stratford explores designs for pets, and the negotiations involved in living alongside a non-human animal.
A stone drain in Marseille inspires Mitre and Mondays’ trough-like, acid yellow serving platter
British indie rock band Glass Animals released a song which would enjoy cultural staying power, just like the Sony Cube TV which shows up in its music video.
The Design Museum’s Barbie exhibition takes visitors on a nostalgic journey through 65 years of mainstream taste in beauty, fashion, architecture and interiors.
Miranda Clow tells the story of how Jasper Morrison’s tin barbecue emerged as the solution to the mystery of a ceramic original.
Inga Sempé writes design fictions imagining the objects left behind when a man goes out and never returns for Disegno #37.
Marina Tabassum’s Khudi Bari relief housing designed for the Ganges Delta finds itself transported to Vitra’s alpine campus.
At Southern Sweden Design Days Malmö’s designers interpreted the theme of ‘care’ by tending to themselves, their spaces, and their materials.
What can design do to reflect different, more inclusive, values and aesthetics? Join Disengo and Rimadesio for an evening exploring design’s potential to engender change.
A new online marketplace and launchpad for emerging designers aims to make the design industry more equitable.
Gabriel Tan and Joaquim Pombal take inspiration from one of Portugal's most popular desserts in their new collaboration.
Disegno and Aram invite you to an evening discussion exploring how designers can respond to contemporary issues and capture a sense of timeliness in their work.
For our autumn 2024 edition, Disegno is commissioning a series of essays that focus on the theme of memory in design.
Disegno explores the immersive design of the British Library’s exhibition Beyond the Bassline, and the DIY innovations of Black British musicians, engineers and fans over the last 500 years.
Sanjana Varghese swipes through TikTok to get under the hood of social media’s reigning interface design for Design Reviewed #1.
Felix Chabluk Smith considers getting his trousers taken up as part of a new French repair scheme for Design Reviewed #3.
Watch a recording of Muse, Speak!, a panel discussion hosted by Disegno and BLOND about the topic of inspiration in design.