The second episode of The Crit is now live and sees designer Bethan Laura Wood look back on her own career.

Watch a recording of Muse, Speak!, a panel discussion hosted by Disegno and BLOND about the topic of inspiration in design.

Our Loundon Design Festival round up includes foraging food, making hooks, and much more. 

Disegno is proud to announce the launch of The Crit: Designers Review Themselves, a new fortnightly podcast in which designers look back on the highlights and lowlights of their careers. The first episode, with Yinka Ilori, is now available to download.

Pauline Loctin creates a floating, folded paper installation for Uncommon Holborn.

Homo Faber's 2024 festival in Venice traces the journey of life and death and explores the humanity and immortality of craft.

Disegno and BLOND invite you to a panel discussion disentangling inspiration in the design process, as well as the launch of a new issue of the Journal of Design.

Jacob Hashimoto's journey from sculpture to textile with Maharam.

Bocci's theatrical glowing orb breaks the conventions of portable design.

The new Residence of the Swiss Ambassador in Algeria bucks the trend of imposing embassy architecture with a modest building designed for family life.

Hamed Ouattara salvages oil drums and invests in his community in Burkina Faso.

Sarah Brunnhuber creates zero-waste garments with unexpected fringe details that illustrate her production process.

Oli Stratford explores designs for pets, and the negotiations involved in living alongside a non-human animal.

Studio Unosinotra’s customisable stool is a riff on Filippino street furniture.

Designer Nitzan Cohen plots a revolution of the DIY kind.

A stone drain in Marseille inspires Mitre and Mondays’ trough-like, acid yellow serving platter

British indie rock band Glass Animals released a song which would enjoy cultural staying power, just like the Sony Cube TV which shows up in its music video.

The Design Museum’s Barbie exhibition takes visitors on a nostalgic journey through 65 years of mainstream taste in beauty, fashion, architecture and interiors.