Industrial Facility takes Pure back to its roots with the Evoke Play, a minimalist radio for the streaming era.

How bona to vada dally screeving about the palare of the omee-palones. Discover the history of Polari, the secret language of Britain’s gay community.

Yinka Ilori takes Georgina Johnson of a tour of his new Sam Jacob-designed London studio and unpacks his colourful community-minded philosophy.

Finish your LDF 2022 experience off in style with Disegno’s hand-picked list of all the shows you should see before the week is up.

Disegno and the Het Nieuwe Instituut present Design Drafts #1 with this online exclusive from Andrew Pasquier on the festivalisation of nightlife design.

How many designers does it take to fell a tree? What happened to Shoreditch’s Tramshed? All this and more answered in today’s report from London Design Festival 2022.

The Disegno guide to all our parties and events to RSVP to ahead of London Design Festival 2022, which begins on 17 September.

This week the Disegno team is exploring the 2022 London Design Festival. Over the coming days we’ll be sharing our reflections from the festival and picking out some of the installations and exhibitions that stood out.

A new robot from Nike cleans and repairs worn-out shoes, but should the brand’s entry into a new area of repair be seen as a service or an installation?

This year’s Maison&Objet Rising Talent Awards looks to the Netherlands for inspiration. Disegno catches up with the awards’ judges to find out how they chose their nominated designers.

Designer Kate Strudwick prototypes a modern forensics kit that could help clear the backlog of unsolved crimes.

A conversation with Reet Aus and Alexander Taylor about reducing material waste within fashion design and the ways in which global industry could better accommodate upcycling.

From drawing to design, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec unravel the serendipitous process of creating their Rope chair for Artek.

Daniel Weil’s Chess on Earth offers a gentle, peaceful route into a traditionally martial game.

Destiny Thomas asks what the unequal rollout of e-scooters in major American cities tell us about technology and racial equity.

The 1930s legal wrangling over the plywood designs of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and Bauhaus master Marcel Breuer shows that the control of intellectual property is not a new concern for designers.

Material design studio Polyfloss is working with recyclers, artists and craftspeople in Antananarivo, Madagascar, to spin waste plastic into a soft and flexible textile.

Peek behind the curtain of Plusminus, the lighting system toolkit designed by Stefan Diez for Vibia that has more than one magic trick up its sleeve.