Michael Marriott joins The Crit for our Christmas episode, discussing his interest in resourcefulness and moderation in design and reflecting on how to embrace the joy of festive season while steering clear of materialism. 

Bisila Noha joins The Crit to discuss her career to date, reflecting on her experiences learning from pottery communities around the world and making work which honours the contributions of women of colour to art and crafts.

Stefan Diez joins The Crit to discuss his career to date, reflecting on his interest in technically complex, circular designs that are both playful and elegant.

Seetal Solanki joins The Crit to discuss her career to date, reflecting on her interest in materials, site-specific design solutions, and making education more accessible and enjoyable.

Martino Gamper joins The Crit to coincide with Before, After and Beyond, his retrospective at 11 Mansfield Street.
Curated by Martino Gamper and Sarah Douglas

The second episode of The Crit is now live and sees designer Bethan Laura Wood look back on her own career.

Disegno is proud to announce the launch of The Crit: Designers Review Themselves, a new fortnightly podcast in which designers look back on the highlights and lowlights of their careers. The first episode, with Yinka Ilori, is now available to download.

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 30th episode of The Crit features an interview with Timorous Beasties, alongside discussions of the allegations against David Adjaye, Meta’s Twitter challenger Threads, and the tumultuous opening of the Young V&A.

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.

The hosts take a journey to ethics town in this episode of The Crit, exploring architecture-washing, dubious partnerships and exhibitions that are more ethically mindful.

The Crit is back for a Milan Design Week special, where our hosts pick out a couple of events, installations and themes that caught their eye – both for better and worse

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.

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.

The latest episode of The Crit is out, looking back on design news in October.

To celebrate the upcoming launch of Disegno #34 our co-hosts give a behind-the-scenes view of some of the most topical pieces from the new issue.

The Crit returns for discussion of Jonny Ive and Apple, the data implications of overturning Roe Vs. Wade, the 2022 Stirling Prize shortlist, and much more.

The Crit is back with discussions about Salone del Mobile, the shocking findings of the Bartlett investigations, and the claimed sentience of Google’s LaMDA chat bot.