Stories
A Welcome Limitation
A roundtable with the team behind Design Everything for their new exhibition at Aram: a fictional flat filled with objects created through the limitations on new designers’ work.
A Canvas for Life
Chybík + Krištof’s Jihlava Municipal Arena is a new multifunctional public space in Czechia that is designed to serve the local community as much as possible.
The Crit #42: Adam Nathaniel Furman
Adam Nathaniel Furman, an artist and designer, joins the show to discuss the history of colour in architecture and the challenges of viral design.
Craft and Spectacle
Es Devlin’s art direction for the fourth edition of the Homo Faber biennale explores the potential for stagecraft and physical proximity to shape appreciation of craft.
Paper Heirlooms
Tanaka Eyewear’s new glasses are made from compressed paper composite, and embrace impermanence by allowing the material to develop a patina and using gold to repair dents or chips.
Sketches of Utopia From Hell
In Disegno #38, Darran Anderson travels to architect Erich Mendelsohn’s first building in Poland and reflects on desecrated gravesites around the world.
Bamboozling Lamp
Nosou’s new lamp 0º was designed and produced in rural Japan to support craftsmanship and manufacturing outside of the country’s urban centres.
Surviving What?
In Disegno #39, Disegno’s editor-in-chief Oli Stratford tours Mudac’s preppers exhibition and contemplates the movement’s critique of consumerism.
Social By Design
Textile designer Leo Germanangue has created Designrs, a new app which connects a city’s creators, that combines his maximalist aesthetic with his desire to minimise screen time.
The Crit #41: Jon Ardern
Jon Ardern, cofounder of design and experiential futures company Superflux, joins the Crit to discuss the emphasis on materiality, emotion, and sensory feedback in the studio’s work.
The Energy of Emotion
Masquespacio, ambassadors for the September 2026 edition of Maison&Objet, share their belief around why design needs more authenticity.
The Crit #40: Hugh Miller
Pentagram’s Hugh Miller joins the show to discuss the tempo of graphic design, as well as the importance of self-criticism for any creative practice.
Transformative Repair
Guy Keulemans and Trent Jansen explore the design potential of wear and tear, in an exhibition that seeks to repair the objects we surround ourselves with.
A Bedroom in a Box
Thélonious Goupil’s Bienvenue spare bedroom expands hospitably out of a small, wooden box.
The Crit #39: Leyu Li
Food designer Leyu Li joins The Crit to discuss using design to challenge cultural hierarchies surrounding food, incorporating social media into her practice, and the pleasures of commercial work.
Incomplete
In Disegno #39, Ama Benewaa Tawia dreams up alternative uses for abandoned spaces with Ghana’s Limbo Museum.
Presented as a Group
Communally designed, the Office Series objects by students from ECAL examines alternative, ego-less ways of working.