Stories
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.
Place of Speech: The Casa do Povo
Resistance and performance at Casa do Povo, São Paulo’s historic anti-fascist Jewish community centre.
The Forensic Kit: A redesign
Designer Kate Strudwick prototypes a modern forensics kit that could help clear the backlog of unsolved crimes.
An About Turn for Chess
Daniel Weil’s Chess on Earth offers a gentle, peaceful route into a traditionally martial game.
A Hotel is a Plot
A trip into Eimear McBride’s novel Strange Hotel reveals the rich literary potential of hotel architecture.
Last Car to the Future
Tesla’s long-awaited futuristic Cybertruck has been spotted on a test track. What can future-concept car designs such as Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine tell us about how to imagine tomorrow?
A Pachinko Game on Anabolic Steroids
Immersed in the surreal world of Tokyo’s pachinko arcades, Luke Caspar Pearson elaborates on the architectural complexity of Japanese medal games.
A Meeting of Waste Streams
From Disegno #26, Attua Aparicio Torinos creates emoji plates out of discarded porcelain from Jingdezhen and glass remnants.
Old Skins for New Boots
From Disegno #26, the making of Matthias Winkler’s debut collection of non-binary boots made from deadstock material that includes old lederhosen.
Vinyl Made Easy
Yuri Suzuki shares Easy Vinyl Maker, the only affordable record cutter on the market.
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.