Martino Gamper joins The Crit to coincide with Before, After and Beyond, his retrospective at 11 Mansfield Street.
Curated by Martino Gamper and Sarah Douglas

For our spring 2025 edition, Disegno is commissioning a series of essays that focus on the theme of survival in design.

The State of Fashion 2024 biennale in the Netherlands used a decentralised curatorial structure to showcase work from the Global South that addresses the ongoing effects of colonialism and overconsumption on the fashion industry. 

Disegno invites you to a gaming night and panel discussion to explore how the digital space of video game could influence other design fields

Feria Hábitat Valencia’s 2024 fair featured emerging designers and established brands trying their hand at reinvention.

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang's novel The White Book reflects on the history of the colour white across art, architecture and design.

Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska blends industrial silhouettes with natural, curved forms in Flaner, her new outdoor furniture collection.

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.