Stories
Fair Curation
Disegno speaks with Vincent Grégoire of NellyRodi, the agency tasked with setting the theme and creative direction of the Maison&Objet trade fair.
Playing Together
MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.
All Together Now
Members of All in Awe, the co-operative non-profit studio founded by Eva Feldkamp, gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance of altruism in design.
A Question of Preservation
Melting sugar machetes tell the colonial history of La Réunion in the work of designer Yassine Ben Abdallah, the winner of the 2022 Gijs Bakker award.
Without the Mess
Less Gesamtkunstwerk and more 3D-simulated catalogue, the first Muji-branded hotel in Shenzhen offers Brendan Cormier a hollow experience.
Fictitious Narratives
What will the Anthropocene leave behind? From Disegno 33, Lara Chapman unearths the fossils of the future.
The Pursuit of ’Appiness
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls designed their apps to be addictive – now they’re offering ways to wean ourselves off them. But can you ever design a perfect digital detox?
A History of Swiss Aluminium
The making of sand-cast aluminium chairs, designed by Moritz Schmid and Ville Kokkonen, using 3D-printed moulds by a family-run foundry in Switzerland.
Of Fashion and Space
Celine Art Project, a contemporary-art collection presented by the luxury-fashion house Celine, prompts a look into how fashion continuously reinvents its retail spaces.
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.
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.
Radio Resurrection
Industrial Facility takes Pure back to its roots with the Evoke Play, a minimalist radio for the streaming era.
Everybody Come
Yinka Ilori takes Georgina Johnson of a tour of his new Sam Jacob-designed London studio and unpacks his colourful community-minded philosophy.
LDF 2022 Diaries: Day Three
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.
Night Consumer
Disegno and the Het Nieuwe Instituut present Design Drafts #1 with this online exclusive from Andrew Pasquier on the festivalisation of nightlife design.
LDF 2022 Diaries: Day Two
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.
Disegno at LDF
The Disegno guide to all our parties and events to RSVP to ahead of London Design Festival 2022, which begins on 17 September.