Interview highlights

Disegno brings together a group of Spanish designers to discuss their approaches to weaving irreverence and humour into their work.

Yemi Awosile speaks with Georgina Johnson about her largest public installation to date, The Forty-seventh Samsara, for the 2023 Triennale Art & Industrie in Dunkirk.

Jasper Morrison’s Raami project for Finnish design brand Iittala prompts consideration of the history of informal dining and convivial tableware.

From Disegno #23, an interview with Hella Jongerius’ on her year of looms and weaving for her project Interlace, textile research.

Disegno catches five minutes with Gbolade Design Studio to speak about their exhibition Breaking Ground at The Africa Centre.

Johanna Agerman Ross travels to Burgundy to interview designer Erwan Bouroullec at La Grange, the rural retreat that’s transforming his practice.

A journey through the surprisingly prescient career of Front, the Swedish design studio selected as the Guest of Honour for the 2023 Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Four designers gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance and complexities of using the word “care” to think about design.

1970s feminist architecture collective Matrix tell curator Viviane Stappmanns how they made space for women in design in this roundtable interview.

Disegno speaks with Vincent Grégoire of NellyRodi, the agency tasked with setting the theme and creative direction of the Maison&Objet trade fair.

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.

Members of All in Awe, the co-operative non-profit studio founded by Eva Feldkamp, gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance of altruism in design.

Melting sugar machetes tell the colonial history of La Réunion in the work of designer Yassine Ben Abdallah, the winner of the 2022 Gijs Bakker award.

Yinka Ilori takes Georgina Johnson of a tour of his new Sam Jacob-designed London studio and unpacks his colourful community-minded philosophy.

A conversation with Reet Aus and Alexander Taylor about reducing material waste within fashion design and the ways in which global industry could better accommodate upcycling.

Yuri Suzuki’s Ambient Machine reveals the analogue pleasures of a bank of toggle switches.

Mitzi Okou chairs a roundtable with contributors to The Met’s new Afrofuturist period room including curator Hannah Beachler, the costume designer of Blank Panther.

The difference between direct experience versus written evocation comes up for debate as Jonathan Olivares opens his new showroom for Kvadrat in New York.

Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular zoom with David Chalmers to philosophise about virtual architecture and the challenge of designing civic spaces in a privatised metaverse.

Disegno interviews Hanna Ter Meulen, co-founder of Early Majority, a technical outerwear brand addressing the pockets gender gap.

Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s artistic and general director, discusses transforming the institution into the world’s first zoöp: a body dedicated to ecological regeneration and representing non-human life.

From Disegno #31, a roundtable interview with Herzog & de Meuron on the opening of M+, a Hong Kong museum in built on reclaimed land in a city at a political crossroads.

Natalie Kane, Keiichi Matsuda and Florian Dussopt explore the design significance of the metaverse as part of a live event hosted at Molteni&C.

Weed’d head of design Simone Bonanni talks to Disegno about ceramic bongs and developing a made in Italy cannabis culture.

Roland Lamb, founder of Roli and creator of the Seaboard Rise 2, sits down with Disegno to discuss the philosophy of designing new musical instruments.

Disegno meets with MSCHF to talk how product design can be performance art, and whether a discipline entwined with commerce can still offer consumerist satire.

From Disegno #25, Tamar Shafrir goes beyond the banal, circle-heavy interfaces of period-tracking apps to examine the profitable industry of harvesting fertility data.

Sony’s Hirotaka Tako and Philip Rose tell Disegno how industrial design is moving beyond plastic with the help of rice husks, bamboo and glowing digital fungi.

Michael David Mitchell wonders if the Snoo, a robotic crib designed by Yves Behar, is the solution to the alienation and difficulty of bringing up a baby in modern America.