A summer of collaboration between designers, potters and artists at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries on New Zealand’s Coromandel peninsula.

Queer voices in design and urbanism explore architecture as a site of disobedience in a roundtable to mark the publication of Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories.

From Disegno #22, Justin Donnelly unpacks the science behind super-cute furniture that makes your subconscious squee.

Designer Ineke Hans shares what she learnt from the second life of her recycled plastic chair Rex in Learning from Failure.

Johanna Agerman Ross travels to Burgundy to interview designer Erwan Bouroullec at La Grange, the rural retreat that’s transforming his practice.

Phone (1) by tech startup Nothing is a transparent smartphone that’s a direct response to the industry’s obsession with black box design and programmed obsolescence.

Sophie Tolhurst reviews Weird Sensation Feels Good, and asks what gets sanitised when an internet phenomena is embraced by traditional design institutions.

Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper documents the rigorous testing processes at Worlds Best Condom Factory in Denmark.

For Seen on Screen, Sharon Lam breaks down how the googly eye motif became the emotional through-line of Everything Everywhere All At Once.

How some downtime watching Netflix provided the moment of inspiration for Julien Renault to design the Pastis chair and table for Hay.

Disegno reveals the secrets of Forward, Nike’s years-long confidential research project culminating in a new material made from plastic bottles.

Maison&Objet returns to Paris for 2023 with an enthusiastic message of caring for the environment and each other.

Eighteenth-century pottery meets knock-off Gucci in this column from Tetsuo Mukai mapping the history of designing and making fakes.

Grab your backpack and trail mix, Tom Chung has gone full gorpcore with Piton, a portable lamp inspired by outdoor adventure gear for Muuto.

A journey through the surprisingly prescient career of Front, the Swedish design studio selected as the Guest of Honour for the 2023 Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Andra Formen is a Swedish design collective turning e-scooter’s dumped in Malmö’s canals into cheekily branded objects.

Lauren Yoshiko is beguiled by HopStep, a cut crystal vessel that converts into a cannabis pipe designed by Aldo Bakker for J. Hill’s Standard.

From Autun to Foshun, Brendan Cormier traces a century of manufacturing Xavier Pauchard’s ubiquitous Tolix Chaise A.