Disegno #36
The cover of Disegno #36, featuring a still from Tactile afferents, a film by Joanna Piotrowska and Formafantasma for Oltre Terra, an exhibition at Norway’s Nasjonalmuseet.
Sheep, sugar machetes, second-hand windows, and masturbatory shower heads. These are just some of the building blocks of Disegno #36, the new issue of The Journal of Design which is available to purchase now.
‘Control’, Disegno #36.
The new issue brings together a series of essays, interviews, reports, roundtables and photo galleries that assess different elements of the design process, exploring the way in which contemporary practitioners interact with the world around them.
Designer Corinne Quin digs into the phenomenon of the sizegiver, in which online communities place everyday objects into photographs to enable judgement of another object's material properties.
‘Navigating Friction’, Disegno #36.
Marianna Janowicz follows up on the design implications of Brda Foundation’s Okno project, which manages the international distribution of windows to Ukraine as a form of humanitarian relief.
Disegno’s editor-in-chief Oli Stratford provides feedback of the Apple iPhone, examining the ways in which the tech company is seeking to minimise and control its environmental impact and legacy.
Studio Saar invites Rupal Rathore and Eshwarya Grover to Udaipur to examine the construction of Third Space, a community space seeking to simultaneously engage the city’s cultural, social and environmental context.
‘Regional Modernisms, Tropical Skins’, Disegno #36.
Amal Alhaag and Bachir Tayachi meet with designer Yassine Ben Abdallah for a discussion about the potential for design to operate in the context of colonial legacies and entrenched ethnographic institutions.
Modern art emerges as a discipline in deep collaboration with Lagos’s tropical modernist architecture, in a piece in which Olorunfemi Adewuyi and Ọlájídé Ayẹni seek to reset the discussion around a historic architectural style.
Formafantasma meet with Evi Hall at Oslo’s Nasjonalmuseet to discuss the research behind Oltre Terra, an exhibition that reframes design’s use of wool as a complex symbiotic relationship with sheep.
‘Following Whom?’, Disegno #36.
Selma Alihodžić visits a semi-industrial neighbourhood in Tokyo to get to grips with Mio Tsuneyama and Fuminori Nousaku’s philosophy of architecture as a process of urban wild ecology.
The economies behind sex tech come under the microscope when India Block and Claudia Chanhoi look into Hansgrohe and Lovehoney’s design for a masturbatory shower head.
And Nathan Ma and Jonas Holthaus drop by Ableton’s Berlin office to explore the industrial design development behind the company’s new musical instrument, the Push 3.
Disegno #36 comes out in print on 13 September 2023, and is available to order now.
Disegno #36 includes:
Material
As Big as A...
The curious phenomenon of online sizegivers
Corinne Quin
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Opinion
Learning From Failure
Adam Nathaniel Furman shines a light on intellectual property theft and cinematic vindication
Adam Nathaniel Furman, India Block and Leonhard Rothmoser
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Distribution
The Necessity of Uncertainty
Windows, Ukraine and architectural reuse
Marianna Janowicz
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Objects in Review
Never Static
A game of bilboquet with Philippe Malouin
Evi Hall and Fabian Frinzel
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Feedback
Control
The environmental legacy of Apple’s iPhone
Oli Stratford
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Opinion
Seen on Screen
Truth through furniture in Rye Lane
Lara Chapman and Leonhard Rothmoser
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Construction
Home, Work and Where Else?
Studio Saar crafts a climate-sensitive community space for Udaipur
Rupal Rathore and Eshwarya Grover
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Objects in Review
Less Volume, More Meaning
A slower than instant professional Polaroid
George Isleden and Fabian Frinzel
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Opinion
The Parthenon Rhymes with Cinderella Castle
Greek classicism and the House of Mouse
Tetsuo Mukai and Leonhard Rothmoser
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Context
Navigating Friction
Yassine Ben Abdallah on letting objects die
Amal Alhaag and Bachir Tayachi
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Objects in Review
Glassware is Like Onions
Shrek-green glassware from Anna Jewsbury
Lara Chapman and Fabian Frinzel
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Collaboration
Regional Modernisms, Tropical Skins
The forgotten art of Nigeria’s modernist architecture
Olorunfemi Adewuyi and Ọlájídé Ayni
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Objects in Review
Motley
Leftover fabulousness in the bags of Ayzit Bostan
Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel
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Research
Following Whom?
Formafantasma removes the wool from your eyes
Evi Hall
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Objects in Review
Notes of Mustard
Luring back lapsed players with a coat of yellow
Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel
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Philosophy
Radically Unfinished
Deconstruct, reconstruct, repeat: a new model for Tokyo’s housing
Selma Alihodžić
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Objects in Review
Lessons in a Flash(light)
Ambessa and Pentagram’s torch for displaced children
Lara Chapman and Fabian Frinzel
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Economies
Keep it Clean
Hansgrohe, Lovehoney, and the business case for pleasure
India Block and Claudia Chanhoi
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Development
The Portable Orchestra
Ableton pushes the industrial design of musical instruments
Nathan Ma and Jonas Holthaus
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Objects in Review
Lemon Aid
Alexandra Hakim’s slice of relief for Lebanon
India Block and Fabian Frinzel
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End Note
No Randomness
Why the chocolate bar comes in equal pieces
Oscar Lhermitte
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