Stories
A View from the Magpie’s Nest
Tiiu Meiner goes behind the scenes at the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam to find out how museums are coping with increasing costs for collection-preserving climate control during the energy crisis.
Vacation, All I Never Wanted
For Design Reviewed #1, Oli Stratford swelters through the heat in Bali to review The Desa Potato Head resort’s zero waste strategy.
Design Line: 1 – 7 April
This week, Design Line features Nike’s period-proof football shorts for the Women’s World Cup, a mysterious installation from Studio Swine, and the best of the design world’s April Fools Day pranks.
A Radical Reduction
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has developed a powder-to-liquid soap to cut down on plastic waste.
Design Line: 11 – 17 March
Everyone’s shooting for the moon in this edition of Design Line, as NASA reveals a fashionable new look for its astronauts, while the UK Space Agency funds the design of a tiny lunar nuclear reactor.
Fibre to Form
Disegno reveals the secrets of Forward, Nike’s years-long confidential research project culminating in a new material made from plastic bottles.
The Crit #26: Beltless
The Crit is back in 2023! Join hosts Oli Stratford and India Block as they unpack on January’s design news and reflect upon their progress (or lack thereof) with their New Year’s resolutions.
Design Line: 7 – 13 January
Fashion for dogs, a smart tech solutions to a solar power problem, and a failed rocket launch all feature in this week’s Design Line.
The Crit #25: The 2022 Review
Our annual round-up episode of The Crit is here, looking back on some of the design stories that tickled us or made us go “hmmm” in 2022.
What Drives Us Together
Seven prototypes for living through the climate crisis get taken for a test drive at Driving the Human’s festival in Berlin.
The Design Line: 5 – 11 November
A killer VR headset, Virgil Abloh’s bequest to Black fashion, and the great tech layoffs feature on Design Line this week.
The Design Line: 22 – 28 October
The Design Line looks at a week in design television, the unravelling of Made.com, Nigo’s World Cup kit for Japan, and much more.
Formafantasma’s Findings
Alice Twemlow visits Formafantasma at their home studio to discuss research, raw materials, and walking the line between climate crisis and commercial design.
The Design Line: 13 – 19 August
Solar-powered personal technology, the Nakagin Capsule Tower becoming an NFT, and discovering lost Cambodian treasures in architects photos feature in Design Line.
The Design Line: 16 - 22 July
Es Devlin builds a giant ring light in the desert, the Unicode Consortium launches the goose emoji, and Minecraft bans NFTs in this week’s Design Line.
Traditional Futures
A rewilded crater where Japanese knotweed is being turned into paper, traditional mushroom hats, and firewood exhibition furniture feature at BIO27 in Ljubljana.
The Design Line: 5 - 11 March
Chile appoints an architect and urban planner to address the heat crisis, a Twitter bot calls out the gender pay gap, and design-focused brands leave Russia in this week’s Design Line.
After Plastic
Sony’s Hirotaka Tako and Philip Rose tell Disegno how industrial design is moving beyond plastic with the help of rice husks, bamboo and glowing digital fungi.