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Doll Parts
The Design Museum’s Barbie exhibition takes visitors on a nostalgic journey through 65 years of mainstream taste in beauty, fashion, architecture and interiors.
An Important Failure
The Design Museum’s Enzo Mari exhibition grapples with its subject’s prescience and legacy, while also suggesting contemporary design’s failure to heed his message.
Design Line: 27 January - 2 February
From how we design for digital spaces to how we classify “emerging designers”, this week’s Design Line looks at some conundrums and questions the industry is engaged with.
Design Line: 28 October – 3 November
Tosin Oshinowo’s Adidas store, Climmavore’s first conference, new Design Researchers in Residence, and more. It’s this week’s Design Line.
Design Line: 14 – 20 October
This week’s Design Line brings an assessment of Skateboard at the Design Museum; a conference at Aalvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium; the Design Council’s Design for Planet programme; and RIBA announced the winner of the 2023 Stirling Prize.
The Crit #31: It’s About Time Morris!
The hosts dive into a trio of reports on designing more sustainable cities and touring exhibitions in this episode of The Crit, which features an exclusive interview with Olivier Lacrouts of Studio d-o-t-s.
The Crit #29: Let Offices Be Offices
This episode of The Crit features an interview with Ilona Gaynor, along with a discussion of AR goggles, AI sofas, and an upcoming exhibition about emails.
Design Line: 17 – 23 June
This week on Design Line, Pharrell Williams’s first Louis Vuitton collection hits the catwalk, Resolve Collective takes a stand against the Barbican, and an obituary for Michael Hopkins.
Design Line: 10 – 16 June
Tesla builds a car in 45 seconds, SFMOMA acquires a pod from the Nakagin Capsule Tower, and Compartment S4 builds a toilet that can pay for its own upkeep in this week’s Design Line.
Design Line: 22 – 28 April
Questions of race, gender and representation are discussed in Design Line this week, as design discusses racism at Milan Design Week and architecture honours Yasmeen Lari and Diébédo Francis Kéré.
Design Line: 25 February – 3 March
This week, Design Line spotlights China’s design for a new lunar lander, the Ukrainian postal service’s stamp-based message to Putin, and Nokia’s digital-first rebrand.
Embrace the Weird
Sophie Tolhurst reviews Weird Sensation Feels Good, and asks what gets sanitised when an internet phenomena is embraced by traditional design institutions.
The Design Line: 7 - 13 May
Design Line covers the end of the iPod, more than a bit of Bitcoin drama, an ear-tingling ASMR exhibition, and a political interruption.
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.
The Design Line: 26 February - 4 March
This week’s The Design Line includes Amazon’s automated organic shopping experience, the icy perils of New York’s Billionaire’s Row, and Dries Van Noten’s collectible beauty launch.
A Fashion System of One’s Own
As a new display of Bethany Williams’s work opens at London’s Design Museum, we revisit our interview with the designer from 2020 about working in fashion during lockdown.
A Point in the Path
Disegno speaks to Mac Collins about receiving the Design Museum’s inaugural Ralph Saltzman Prize and his hope to plot a non-linear route through the discipline.