Stories
This Is Not a Rhinoceros
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg lets her AI rhino loose in London’s Natural History Museum, prompting philosophical questions about extinction and complicity.
Systems of Care
Four designers gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance and complexities of using the word “care” to think about design.
What Drives Us Together
Seven prototypes for living through the climate crisis get taken for a test drive at Driving the Human’s festival in Berlin.
It Hides a Mess!
Evi Hall reflects on Cabine, Inga Sempé’s standing mirror for Ariake that’s produced on different continents for a more resilient supply chain.
Whose Future?
As major institutions put on exhibitions curating utopian visions for the future, Zara Arshad enquires as to whether they have grappled fully with their colonial pasts.
An Act of Renewal
Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni makes subtle updates to Laufen’s Ilbagnoalessi bathroom set.
Fernando Campana (1961 - 2022)
Brazilian designer Fernando Campana, one half of the Campana Brothers, has died at the age of 61.
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.