India Block reports on Citibin, the trash container pilot on the front line of New York City’s war on rats.

Eshwarya Grover documents the work of Studio Raw Material turning Makrana’s marble industry offcuts into furniture.

Michael Snyder visits industrial designer Fabien Cappello’s studio in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he collaborates with a local hojalata workshop to create handcrafted tin objects for the home.

Bodies and chairs get extreme in Netflix’s Physical 100, with the arrival of Terje Ekstrøm’s Ekstrem.

Evi Hall takes a turn with the NW-A306, Sony’s new take on the Walkman typology.

Svitlana Biedarieva talks with designer Danuta Kril about reinterpreting traditional smoked ceramics from Havarechyna, rescuing clay ahead of the Russian invasion, and celebrating Ukrainian cultural heritage.

Tiiu Meiner goes behind the scenes at the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam to find out how museums are coping with increasing costs for collection-preserving climate control during the energy crisis.

The 30th episode of The Crit features an interview with Timorous Beasties, alongside discussions of the allegations against David Adjaye, Meta’s Twitter challenger Threads, and the tumultuous opening of the Young V&A.

From Disegno #35, Lara Chapman follows Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren of Front through the Swedish woods, where they are documenting the outdoors in order to bring it inside.

Disegno brings together a group of Spanish designers to discuss their approaches to weaving irreverence and humour into their work.

The Kori by Taf Studio for Artek is a recycled-aluminium lamp that pays homage to the design legacy of Alvar and Aino Aalto, the trusty E27 lightbulb, and the designers’ fondness for eggs.

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.