Thélonious Goupil’s Bienvenue spare bedroom expands hospitably out of a small, wooden box.

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.

In Disegno #39, Ama Benewaa Tawia dreams up alternative uses for abandoned spaces with Ghana’s Limbo Museum.

Communally designed, the Office Series objects by students from ECAL examines alternative, ego-less ways of working.

Industrial designer John Tree joins The Crit to talk production, the challenges of mobile phones, and the need to not obsess over your business card.

Prosthetic movement and wartime testimony form the core of A New Integrity, artist Nikita Kadan’s reflection on the costs of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Disegno is looking for contributions to our 42nd issue, released during London Design Week in September 2026, which will be themed around ideas of “Transformation” in design.

Vitra’s new lounge chair Bascule, designed by Studio Œ, presents a different type of comfort than typical lounge chairs, with slouchy upholstery that accommodates movement and acts more like a jacket than a cushion.

Special Projects’ speculative concept, Aperture, supports digital detox by allowing users to flip their phone case around to reduce their iPhone screens to a small window.

Marte Mei van Haaster’s new collection, displayed at St Vincent’s gallery, presents a method of designing furniture out of plants used to remove toxic chemicals from the land.

Joseph Yang’s bricolage timber furniture, displayed at Seoul’s INSA Gallery, play with the construction logic of a traditional nong cabinet.

A new film shot at El Salón, Disegno’s installation for Clerkenwell Design Week in conjunction with Interiors from Spain, reveals the design process of its creator, Tomás Alonso.

London-based designer Tessa Silva joins the Crit to discuss understanding the possibilities and limitations of new materials.

What role can modularity play in combatting the fetishisation of newness within interior architecture? A new podcast, featuring String’s Bo Hellberg, Ab Rogers, Tola Ojuolape and Lisl du Toit from Universal Design Studio tackles the issue.

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.