Stories
Enter the Washing Machine
Sanjana Varghese swipes through TikTok to get under the hood of social media’s reigning interface design for Design Reviewed #1.
Patching the Machine
Felix Chabluk Smith considers getting his trousers taken up as part of a new French repair scheme for Design Reviewed #3.
Power Play
Disegno explores a series of designs that could aid the transition to renewable energy in Vitra Design Museum’s exhibition Transform! The Future of Energy.
An Important Failure
The Design Museum’s Enzo Mari exhibition grapples with its subject’s prescience and legacy, while also suggesting contemporary design’s failure to heed his message.
Rising, Dancing, Twisting
Oli Stratford becomes lost in the relationship between lava lamps and respectability for Design Reviewed #3.
The Modern Milkman
Jonna Dagliden Hunt pours out domestic products with På(fyll), a container engineered to reduce plastic waste, for Design Reviewed #3.
Stock Creep
Lara Chapman scrolls through an alternative stock photography website that aims to court designers for Design Reviewed #3.
The Corruptibility of Olive Oil
Lily Wakeley questions whether equipping AI to analyse olive oil leaves a bad taste in the mouth for Design Reviewed #3.
Good Road, Bad Road
For Design Reviewed #3, Evi Hall got on her bike to forge a new relationship with London’s streets with help from Beeline’s Velo 2.
To Speak Amongst Ourselves
Joshua Segun-Lean sifted through the influences behind Lagos Space Programme’s fashion collections for Design Reviewed #3.
Working Between the Lines
What is transdisciplinary design and how does it impact us today? In this roundtable, a collection of students and a coordinator from the IED’s Transdiciplinary Design Master’s programme discuss the course’s foundational principles and how this shapes their work and design philosophies.
Radically Unfinished
Holes in the House uses repeated deconstruction and reconstruction as a new model for Tokyo’s housing.
Following Whom?
The members of Formafantasma come together to discuss Oltre Terra, their exploration of the history of sheep, and how interspecies relationships are fertile territory for design.
Regional Modernisms; Tropical Skins
Olorunfemi Adewuyi explores the forgotten art of Nigeria’s modernist architecture.
Navigating Friction
For Disegno #36, Amal Alhaag spoke with designer Yassine Ben Abdallah about his practice, working with institutions and letting objects die.
Home, Work, and Where Else?
Studio Saar crafts a climate-sensitive community space for Udaipur.
The Stories Behind
How do designers infuse their objects with stories about the materials they are made from? Disegno’s talk series “Unearthing Narratives” at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair will explore this question and many more .
