Stories
Power Play
Disegno explores a series of designs that could aid the transition to renewable energy in Vitra Design Museum’s exhibition Transform! The Future of Energy.
Design Line: 18 – 24 November
A week of AI flare-ups, 3D-printed wool and an inflating/deflating sphere. Welcome to the Design Line.
The Texture of Colour
Sabine Marcelis rearranges the rainbow for furniture in the Colour Rush! exhibition at the Vitra Schaudepot, captured here by Laurence Kubski.
Disegno #33
Rejoice, for Disegno’s summer 2022 edition is here! Disegno #33 includes a political report from OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Centre; colourful curation with Sabine Marcelis; a journey into Yinka Ilori’s new home; and a study of who gets left out when design imagines the future.
Counterpoints
From Disegno #30, Peter Kapos reviews the Vitra Design Museum exhibition and book, German Design 1949-1989, and asks if romanticising the past poses a risk in the present.
Relearning History
Disegno discovers the original pioneer of DIY and the secrets of the Soviet space race at Vitra’s exhibition Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today.
Kazam!
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Eames Office, the practice has launched a new edition of Charles and Ray Eames’s groundbreaking 1943 Molded Plywood Sculpture. To mark the occasion, Disegno sat down with the designers’ grandson, Eames Demetrios, to discuss the sculpture’s significance to their practice.