Stories
Event Invitation: Through the Fun House Mirror
What can design do to reflect different, more inclusive, values and aesthetics? Join Disengo and Rimadesio for an evening exploring design’s potential to engender change.
Objective Studies
A new online marketplace and launchpad for emerging designers aims to make the design industry more equitable.
An Ambient Helper
Ambient Works launch an air quality monitor designed for workshops and studios.
Clay Pudding
Gabriel Tan and Joaquim Pombal take inspiration from one of Portugal's most popular desserts in their new collaboration.
Event Invitation: Correct for the Time?
Disegno and Aram invite you to an evening discussion exploring how designers can respond to contemporary issues and capture a sense of timeliness in their work.
Seeking Short Stories
For our autumn 2024 edition, Disegno is commissioning a series of essays that focus on the theme of memory in design.
Heartbeats
Disegno explores the immersive design of the British Library’s exhibition Beyond the Bassline, and the DIY innovations of Black British musicians, engineers and fans over the last 500 years.
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.