Jareh Das interviews Nifemi Marcus-Bello about Africa – A Designer’s Utopia, his project documenting unauthored West African design.

How a shared home, four creatives feeling stifled in lockdown, and a Portuguese master crucifix carver resulted in the playful Foot Stool by Protect 213A.

This episode of The Crit features an interview with Ilona Gaynor, along with a discussion of AR goggles, AI sofas, and an upcoming exhibition about emails.

For Design Reviewed #1, Lily Wakeley enters the Chihuahuan desert, where questions over production of the spirit sotol get to the heart of cross-border identities and spatial politics.

For Design Reviewed #1, Oli Stratford swelters through the heat in Bali to review The Desa Potato Head resort’s zero waste strategy.

Yemi Awosile speaks with Georgina Johnson about her largest public installation to date, The Forty-seventh Samsara, for the 2023 Triennale Art & Industrie in Dunkirk.

Khorshed Deboo takes stock of the hand-painted multilingual signs of Mumbai vanishing due to policy change for Design Reviewed #1.

In this Disegno podcast episode, India Block is joined by designers Marcel Wanders, Yves Béhar, Anahita Mekanik, Frederik Duerinck and Clark Scheffy to discuss how designers and brands can strike up purposeful partnerships with artificial intelligence.

Amelia Abraham sniffs out Bompas & Parr’s luxury poppers Excalibur XO and the mainstreaming of queer nightlife culture for Design Reviewed #1.

For Design Reviewed #1, Vic Parsons reflects on their years using chest binders and examines the design history – and future – of gender-affirming garments.

Helen Gonzalez Brown reviews the Apple Watch Ultra and grapples with anxiety, mortality, and the cult of wellness for Design Reviewed #1.

An adaptive reuse project from architecture and design practice EBBA has turned a London eel pie shop into a Cubitts store.

For Design Reviewed #1, India Block relaxes into the world of cosy video games with a review of indie developer Witch Beam’s breakout hit Unpacking.

Disegno meets the avant garde designers creating seaweed couture at Reykjavik’s DesignMarch 2023.

For Design Reviewed #1, Matthew Turner finds a home away from home on the Elizabeth line train, with its carriage interiors designed by Map Project Office.

Studiomama’s Kyora Board for Cotto strikes a balance between sculptural object and home exercise equipment.

Disegno visits Newcastle’s Farrell Centre: an architecture space that aspires to present a more participatory view of urban planning.

A study of the Spanish design industry, as told through nine new launches during Milan Design Week 2023.