Disegno #31
The cover of Disegno #31.
Whatever flavour of the festive period you observe, there comes a time when the surplus of social engagements and incessant seasonal jingles becomes too much. At such a point, all anyone wants is to hide away for a few hours with a hot beverage and quality reading material.
Rejoice then, for Disegno #31 is here and filled to the brim with exciting and insightful long-form journalism to restore your flagging spirits and warm your arterial cockles.
Disegno #31 comes out in print on 3 December 2021 and is available to order now. To save on space, you can also order a digital copy should you so desire. If you’re looking for the perfect holiday gift for design-minded loved ones – or want to give yourself something to look forward to in 2022 – we also offer personal and gift subscriptions.
In your copy of #31 , you will find a carefully curated selection of essays, photography and interviews that run the gamut of pressing issues and fascinating discoveries in design from around the world.
Carolina Are gets to the bottom of the war being waged against posting ass online, exploring how technology companies profit from platforms being systematically purged of porn, accompanied by illustrations from Exotic Cancer.
Sophie Tolhurst interviews York-based fashion designer Matty Bovan and takes us behind the couture curtain with a look at fitting photos, examining how these design-in-process snapshots capture the energy of creative genesis.
Oorvi Sharma looks to Ladakh, a remote mountainous region in India that shares borders with Pakistani and China, where homegrown architecture is under threat of high-tech homogeneity.
A roundtable of architects, anthropologists, designers and philosophers – Studio d-o-t-s’ Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts, Fernando Laposse, Natasha Myers, Livia Rossi and Gianluca Giabardo, Emanuele Coccia, and Ioana Man – debate how reframing plants as subjects, rather than objects, is vital to designing a greener and more equitable future for the planet.
Oli Stratford learns a lot about lipstick and bacteria husbandry on a visit to Shellworks, the London-based studio that’s poised to give the beauty industry an overdue makeover with fully biodegradable packaging.
Herzog & de Meuron sit down for a conversation with Juliana Kei that delves beneath the surface of M+, Hong Kong’s new multimedia museum that’s finally offering an accessible public platform for contemporary Asian art.
Crystal Bennes packs her snorkelling and camera gear for a research trip to Gipsön, a secretive radioactive island off the coast of Sweden, where she uncovers a toxic tale of economics and ecocide.
And India Block talks about AI-generated foot fetish pictures and guerilla gun-buyback programmes with MSCHF, the New York studio that’s selling stuff that satirises consumer culture.
Disegno #31 comes out in print on 3 December 2021, and is available to order now.
Disegno #31 includes:
Timeline
September to November 2021 in review
The Online Ass Wars
No porn please, we’re social media monopolies
Carolina Are and Exotic Cancer
Fitting Photos
Behind the lens with Matty Bovan
Sophie Tolhurst
Inverted Grounds; Tethered Geographies
Resistance and ecological interdependence in Ladakh
Oorvi Sharma and Tushar Verma
Plants ≠ Objects
Conspiring with plants to change design
Studio d-o-t-s, Fernando Laposse, Ioana Man, Dossofiorito, Emanuele Coccia, Natasha Myers and Overmind
The Biodegradable Aphrodite
Sated bacteria and sustainable beauty packaging
Oli Stratford and Theresa Marx
A Topography for Encounter
A journey into Herzog and de Meuron’s M+
Juliana Kei and Boy Chan
Welcome to the Island
Day trips to a secret land of radioactive waste
Crystal Bennes
The Spicy Present
MSCHF turns product design into performance art
India Block and Dean Kaufman
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