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Seetal Solanki joins The Crit to discuss her career to date, reflecting on her interest in materials, site-specific design solutions, and making education more accessible and enjoyable.
Design studio BNAG and type foundry ABC Dinamo flirted across disciplinary boundaries to create metal brackets which add typographic elements to furniture.
In Disegno #37, Evi Hall brought together a roundtable of designers and biologists to reflect on the opportunities and challenges of these disciplines meeting in the realm of bio-tech.
Martino Gamper joins The Crit to coincide with Before, After and Beyond, his retrospective at 11 Mansfield Street.
Curated by Martino Gamper and Sarah Douglas
For our spring 2025 edition, Disegno is commissioning a series of essays that focus on the theme of survival in design.
The State of Fashion 2024 biennale in the Netherlands used a decentralised curatorial structure to showcase work from the Global South that addresses the ongoing effects of colonialism and overconsumption on the fashion industry.
Disegno invites you to a gaming night and panel discussion to explore how the digital space of video game could influence other design fields
Feria Hábitat Valencia’s 2024 fair featured emerging designers and established brands trying their hand at reinvention.
Nobel Prize winner Han Kang's novel The White Book reflects on the history of the colour white across art, architecture and design.
Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska blends industrial silhouettes with natural, curved forms in Flaner, her new outdoor furniture collection.
The second episode of The Crit is now live and sees designer Bethan Laura Wood look back on her own career.
Watch a recording of Muse, Speak!, a panel discussion hosted by Disegno and BLOND about the topic of inspiration in design.
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.
Oscar Lhermitte explains why the London plane tree is so widely used in urban planning.