Stories
Irreverent Objects
Disegno brings together a group of Spanish designers to discuss their approaches to weaving irreverence and humour into their work.
Design is Happening
Jareh Das interviews Nifemi Marcus-Bello about Africa – A Designer’s Utopia, his project documenting unauthored West African design.
Be Like the Wind and Water
Yemi Awosile speaks with Georgina Johnson about her largest public installation to date, The Forty-seventh Samsara, for the 2023 Triennale Art & Industrie in Dunkirk.
A Brick is Born
From Disegno #23, an interview with Hella Jongerius’ on her year of looms and weaving for her project Interlace, textile research.
Better Sensation
Johanna Agerman Ross travels to Burgundy to interview designer Erwan Bouroullec at La Grange, the rural retreat that’s transforming his practice.
Front Did it First
A journey through the surprisingly prescient career of Front, the Swedish design studio selected as the Guest of Honour for the 2023 Stockholm Furniture Fair.
Systems of Care
Four designers gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance and complexities of using the word “care” to think about design.
Enter the Matrix
1970s feminist architecture collective Matrix tell curator Viviane Stappmanns how they made space for women in design in this roundtable interview.
Fair Curation
Disegno speaks with Vincent Grégoire of NellyRodi, the agency tasked with setting the theme and creative direction of the Maison&Objet trade fair.
Playing Together
MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.
All Together Now
Members of All in Awe, the co-operative non-profit studio founded by Eva Feldkamp, gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance of altruism in design.
A Question of Preservation
Melting sugar machetes tell the colonial history of La Réunion in the work of designer Yassine Ben Abdallah, the winner of the 2022 Gijs Bakker award.
Everybody Come
Yinka Ilori takes Georgina Johnson of a tour of his new Sam Jacob-designed London studio and unpacks his colourful community-minded philosophy.
Dead Stock, Live Stock
A conversation with Reet Aus and Alexander Taylor about reducing material waste within fashion design and the ways in which global industry could better accommodate upcycling.
The Toggle Switch
Yuri Suzuki’s Ambient Machine reveals the analogue pleasures of a bank of toggle switches.
The Whole Tapestry
Mitzi Okou chairs a roundtable with contributors to The Met’s new Afrofuturist period room including curator Hannah Beachler, the costume designer of Blank Panther.
Whereof One Cannot Speak
The difference between direct experience versus written evocation comes up for debate as Jonathan Olivares opens his new showroom for Kvadrat in New York.