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Butter Wouldn’t Melt
Baguette Studio demystify industrial processes by making wax lamps using rotational moulding, a technique typically employed in plastics production, in front of their customers’ eyes.
The Crit #27: Ab Rogers
Ab Rogers, exhibition designer for Wes Anderson: The Archives, joins The Crit for a discussion about design, healthcare, colour and welcoming children into architectural discourse.
Open Call: Experimentation
Disegno is looking for contributions to our 41st issue, released during Milan Design Week in April 2026, which will be themed around ideas of “Experimentation” in design.
Four Legs Good
Frank Rettenbacher explores Thonet’s tubular steel programme for the creation of the S 243, a chair that replaces the cantilevers of the 20th-century with four legs.
Do Androids Dream of Acid House?
In Disegno #38, dance music historian Frank Broughton listens to sound designer Yuri Suzuki’s AI-generated sonic architecture.
The Crit #26: Ori Orisun Merhav
Material researcher and designer Ori Orisun Merhave joins The Crit to discuss bio-inclusive design, and the joys of making objects with insects.
Foot Traffic
Marc Sadler’s latest collection with luxury flooring company Listone Giordano was inspired by 19th century wooden pavements, and industrialises a technique that fell out of favour due to industrialisation.
Silent Guidance
The Doshi Retreat is a new space for contemplation on the Vitra Campus and a memorial for its architect, Balkrishna Doshi, who passed away shortly after completing the building’s design.
Colour as Resource
Sophie Smallhorn applies colour as volume, in a chromatic table whose design is shaped by material efficiency.
Formal Wear
Artist Diane Simpson’s exhibition Formal Wear brings together over four decades of sculptures inspired by the forms of fashion, furniture and architecture.
The Crit #25: Samuel Ross
Artist and designer Samuel Ross joins The Crit to discuss pushing materiality forwards within luxury design, the challenges of working as an innovator within internal teams, and creating designs that speak to a particular generation of British culture.
Site Responsiveness
Max Lamb’s Exercises in Seating 3 brings together chairs Lamb has made over the last 10 years, many of which respond directly to the site their materials were extracted from.
Postcolonial Reclamations
Jawad Elhusuni’s Postcolonial Reclamations exhibition brings together proposals from local architects and architecture students which reconstruct Benghazi’s urban landscape while engaging with its colonial history.
Mixed Messaging
Studio Vit introduces organic profusion to strict geometry in a body of work that explores the interconnectedness of all things.
Dirty Looks
The Barbican’s Dirty Looks exhibition interrogates how dirt has been used in fashion as both a symbol of rebellion and a rumination on the inevitability of decay.
The Crit #24: Nick Foster
Fresh from releasing his new book Could, Should, Might, Don’t, futures designer Nick Foster attends his Crit to discuss the limitations in our thinking about what is coming next.
Illumination Through Books
Livia Lauber’s catalogue of design goes on display at Tenderbooks, illuminated by new, print-inspired lighting.