Stories
Industrial Continuity
Continuity, Edward Robinson’s exhibition with Jousse entreprise, explores an industrial designer’s approach towards furniture design.
Competition and Compassion
In Disegno #39, Tiiu Meiner plays Multiform, a non-hierarchical sport designed by Gabriel Fontana that encourages collaboration.
Heirloom Comics
Pigment Collective’s new imprint, Argent Comics, is bringing luxury bookmaking techniques to the world of comics.
The Crit #36: Tetsuo Mukai
Tetsuo Mukai, cofounder of London-based studio Study O Portable, joins The Crit to talk about making objects that interrogate our relationship with design.
A Bowl Fit for a Palace
Isac Lindberg designs an architectural dessert bowl for Palace, a storied restaurant in central Helsinki.
A Place We Wish to Be
In Disegno #38, Fowota Mortoo and Alfred Quartey visit ANO’s new educational space in Ghana, which is inspired by indigenous knowledge systems that combine art, education and ecology.
The Crit #35: Simone Brewster
Simone Brewster, a London-based designer, artist and educator, joins The Crit to talk about finding the wider purpose behind her design work.
Disegno #41
Disegno #41 explores experimentation within design, examining themes of research, transformation, survival, adaptation and originality.
The Gallery Industry
Duncan Riches discusses Unit.d, a new gallery for affordable industrial design, whose debut show includes works by Michael Marriott and Jasper Morrison.
In Search of the Long-armed Chair
In Disegno #39, Rachel Lee and Sarita Sundar trace a shapeshifting chair from its colonial origins to modern deconstructions.
The Crit #34: Phil Garnham
Phil Garnham, executive creative director at Monotype Studio, joins The Crit to talk about the changing landscape of type design.
Text-to-Clay
Designer and researcher Vera van der Burg trained an AI model to generate ceramic forms that she later hand-built in clay, challenging anthropomorphic ideas about the technology by treating it like a material.
The Crit #33: Johanna Gibbons
Johanna Gibbons, landscape architect and current keeper of the Faculty of Royal Designers, joins the Crit to discuss the entanglements between communities and ecology.
The Crit #32: James Melia
James Melia of Blond visits the studio for a discussion about reductionism in design, the challenges of designing refillable packaging, and his dream of designing a catheter.
Factory Diaries
In Disegno #38, design studio Folkform shared an ode to Sweden’s last Masonite factory.