Stories
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.
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.
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.
Socially Kinetic Colour
Yinka Ilori creates a new entry point to Milton Keynes, on an installation that argues for the affective and social power of colour and pattern.
A Silent Statement
Edith van Berkel’s new collection of rugs for Maharam is rooted in traditional Nepalese textile production techniques, including weaving with nettle fibres.
Minimal Colour
Morag Myerscough and Tracey Neuls discuss colour and sustainability in aid of their collaboration on the DOT Morag trainer.
The Crit #23: Lise Vester
Lise Vester joins The Crit to discuss designing for hospice patients, drawing inspiration from CBT therapy, and creating lamps that evoke science fiction and fantasy.
A Foldable Home
Amélie Pichard and Maison&Objet’s up-and-coming studios meet the realities of modern life with multifunctional pieces, objects that evoke the natural world, and designs which balance technology with handcraft.
Mapping the Hinterlands
Louise Bennetts blurs the past and present in designs that translate urban fabric into textile.
LDF 2025 Round Up
Disegno’s London Design Festival 2025 round up includes insertable objects, car boot sales, camping tents, decomposing packaging and much more.