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For Design Reviewed #3, Oli Stratford dives into the world of soft drink branding and redesigns, and the rise of zero-sugar formulations.
For Design Reviewed #2 Adrienne Brown takes part in a Mobile Makers workshop and reflects on the radical potential of breaking down barriers to entry into design.
Simón Ballen Botero returns to Medelin in search of a newly designed relationship with Colombia’s ecosystems for Design Reviewed #2.
Natalie Kane took a good long look through a pair of NReal Air spectacles to examine the hype around AR and technology for Design Reviewed #2.
With Hollywood beset my movies about design, manufacture and marketing, Design Reviewed #2 invited Michael David Mitchell to review Air, the story of Nike’s breakthrough sneaker, and explore what lies beneath our 80s nostalgia.
For Design Reviewed #2, Takt’s flat-pack furniture, designed to be perpetually repaired, is put to the test by a self-confessed fan of building manuals.
For Design Reviewed #2, Nathan Ma meets with Hella Jongerius amongst the faded lustre of porcelain.
For Design Reviewed #2, Lara Chapman talked tactics with Assemble’s plans to open up football pitches to more women and non-binary players.
For Design Reviewed #2, Piti Koshimura tours the public facilities of the Tokyo Toilet Project, raising questions about the social value of readily accessible bathrooms.
For Design Reviewed #2, Ann Morgan trials a shift in her parenting approach with the introduction of Sumo, Luisa Kahlfeldt’s design for a reusable nappy.
Rado’s head of research and development discusses the challenges of executing Le Corbusier’s colours in high-tech ceramic.
Ella Bulley shapes new narratives about women’s roles and the representation of their bodies through a family of three wooden chairs.
Claude Dutson employs technology to snoop around the secretive headquarters of Silicon Valley, probing the methodological limits of proprietary architecture.
India Block reports on Citibin, the trash container pilot on the front line of New York City’s war on rats.
Michael Snyder visits industrial designer Fabien Cappello’s studio in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he collaborates with a local hojalata workshop to create handcrafted tin objects for the home.
Jareh Das interviews Nifemi Marcus-Bello about Africa – A Designer’s Utopia, his project documenting unauthored West African design.
For Design Reviewed #1, Lily Wakeley enters the Chihuahuan desert, where questions over production of the spirit sotol get to the heart of cross-border identities and spatial politics.
For Design Reviewed #1, Oli Stratford swelters through the heat in Bali to review The Desa Potato Head resort’s zero waste strategy.
Khorshed Deboo takes stock of the hand-painted multilingual signs of Mumbai vanishing due to policy change for Design Reviewed #1.
Amelia Abraham sniffs out Bompas & Parr’s luxury poppers Excalibur XO and the mainstreaming of queer nightlife culture for Design Reviewed #1.
For Design Reviewed #1, Vic Parsons reflects on their years using chest binders and examines the design history – and future – of gender-affirming garments.
Helen Gonzalez Brown reviews the Apple Watch Ultra and grapples with anxiety, mortality, and the cult of wellness for Design Reviewed #1.
Disegno meets the avant garde designers creating seaweed couture at Reykjavik’s DesignMarch 2023.
First published in Disegno #10 to mark Milan Design Week, Hella Jongerius, Paola Antonelli, Patricia Urquiola the late Alessandro Mendini – and many more – share their oral histories of the city.
Jasper Morrison’s Raami project for Finnish design brand Iittala prompts consideration of the history of informal dining and convivial tableware.
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has developed a powder-to-liquid soap to cut down on plastic waste.
A summer of collaboration between designers, potters and artists at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries on New Zealand’s Coromandel peninsula.
From Disegno #22, Justin Donnelly unpacks the science behind super-cute furniture that makes your subconscious squee.
Johanna Agerman Ross travels to Burgundy to interview designer Erwan Bouroullec at La Grange, the rural retreat that’s transforming his practice.
The design of bricks made out of construction waste, as told by the architects, scientists and designers working to make materials more sensitive to their local and environmental context.