Yoshino Takayama’s kinetic machines, exhibited at Designtide Tokyo, reframe technological control through the vagaries of natural forces.

In Disegno #39, Marianna Janowicz investigates the link between comfort and survival in design for childbirth.

In Disegno #39, Studiomama create iron castings that advantage of the brain’s tendency to ascribe human-like qualities to the world around us.

Continuity, Edward Robinson’s exhibition with Jousse entreprise, explores an industrial designer’s approach towards furniture design.

Disegno is proud to announce El Salón, a Clerkenwell Design Week installation for Interiors from Spain, designed by Tomás Alonso.

In Disegno #39, Tiiu Meiner plays Multiform, a non-hierarchical sport designed by Gabriel Fontana that encourages collaboration.

Pigment Collective’s new imprint, Argent Comics, is bringing luxury bookmaking techniques to the world of comics.

Tetsuo Mukai, cofounder of London-based studio Study O Portable, joins The Crit to talk about making objects that interrogate our relationship with design.

Isac Lindberg designs an architectural dessert bowl for Palace, a storied restaurant in central Helsinki.

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.

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 explores experimentation within design, examining themes of research, transformation, survival, adaptation and originality.

In Disegno #39, Studio Brynjar & Veronika made pâte de verre windows using a glass technique that has been celebrated for its capacity to mimic natural stones.

Duncan Riches discusses Unit.d, a new gallery for affordable industrial design, whose debut show includes works by Michael Marriott and Jasper Morrison.

In Disegno #39, Rachel Lee and Sarita Sundar trace a shapeshifting chair from its colonial origins to modern deconstructions.

Phil Garnham, executive creative director at Monotype Studio, joins The Crit to talk about the changing landscape of type design.

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.

Johanna Gibbons, landscape architect and current keeper of the Faculty of Royal Designers, joins the Crit to discuss the entanglements between communities and ecology.