Stories
Seeing Through the Walls of Silicon Valley
Claude Dutson employs technology to snoop around the secretive headquarters of Silicon Valley, probing the methodological limits of proprietary architecture.
This Is Not a Rhinoceros
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg lets her AI rhino loose in London’s Natural History Museum, prompting philosophical questions about extinction and complicity.
Playing Together
MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.
The Pursuit of ’Appiness
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls designed their apps to be addictive – now they’re offering ways to wean ourselves off them. But can you ever design a perfect digital detox?
Radio Resurrection
Industrial Facility takes Pure back to its roots with the Evoke Play, a minimalist radio for the streaming era.
On Behalf of the Invisible End-User
Destiny Thomas asks what the unequal rollout of e-scooters in major American cities tell us about technology and racial equity.
Asks For a Hit of Your Juul
The FDA ban on Juul has stalled. From Disegno 25, Natalie Kane examines the design themes, memes, and appeal to teens of these slick flavoured e-cigarettes.
Map publishes ambient technology e-paper
We share an article on ambient technology and the screen, published as part of Map Project Office’s e-paper about connected tech in the home.
Velo 2 by Jon Marshall for Beeline
Pentagram’s Jon Marshall has returned to his back catalogue, designing a new version of the Velo bicycle navigation device.
Do We Still Love Our Bookstores?
How have Amazon and its online competitors changed the way we buy books? With the launch of Bookshop.org, Disegno set out to investigate.
Counter Measures
How can we measure time in a way that centres long-term environmental change rather than human industry?
The Tourists
Founded in 1958, the DSN is the Earth’s most sophisticated means of interplanetary exchange – the system by which NASA passes telemetry data between Earth and its spacecraft.