Immersed in the surreal world of Tokyo’s pachinko arcades, Luke Caspar Pearson elaborates on the architectural complexity of Japanese medal games.

Minecraft is raising a new generation of young gamers applying their design skills to real-world issues, but its first foray into mobile AR gaming raises questions about surveillance technology.

Artist Ariel Caine meets architect Dima Srouji and archaeologist Silvia Truini to discuss archaeology as a tool of colonisation and settlement in Palestine.

Drawn together by ArkDes, a group of architects and curators take aim at the myth of Sigurd Lewerentz, and explain why this giant of 20th-century Swedish architecture’s work was so much greater, richer and stranger in reality.

Fresh lipstick and fat bacteria; Oli Stratford tours the studio of Shellworks, an experimental company making biodegradable beauty packaging.

Crystal Bennes ventures to Gipsön, the mysterious island made of radioactive waste from the fertiliser industry that sits off the coast of Sweden.

Sophie Tolhurst talks to designer Matty Bovan about fitting photos, the less glamorous yet more revealing behind-the-scenes images of creation in process.

From Disegno #30, Peter Kapos reviews the Vitra Design Museum exhibition and book, German Design 1949-1989, and asks if romanticising the past poses a risk in the present.

Academic and pole dancer Carolina Are the connections between OnlyFans' attempt to design out porn and the draconian legislation trying to cleanse the internet.

A new exhibition at Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum looks at the work of interior architect Åke Axelsson and how his 20th- and 21st-century furniture designs and architecture anticipated the need for responsible, sustainable design.

From Disegno #25, Lauren Teixeira tries to escape from the monstrous clutches of Zaha Hadid’s Beijing Daxing International Airport.

Alison Sinkewicz explores how a series of controversial artworks from Steven Shearer revealed Vancouver’s toxic mixture of rapacious development, public art, and drug overdoses.

Felix Chabluk Smith explores the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, reimagined and restored by architect Tadao Ando and designers Ronan and Ewan Bouroullec.

Kristina Rapacki explores the history of vaccine hesitancy and asks how graphic design could communicate more effectively with the public to combat online misinformation about immunisation from Covid-19.

From logo to lounge chair, Magnus Englund charts the creation of Jasper Morrison’s single-piece plywood furniture through the history of Isokon Plus.

As the NHS prepares to roll out the IUB Ballerine, Helen Brown explores the uncomfortable history of design for contraceptive intrauterine devices.

Benjamin Bansal and Manuel Oka explore the empty streets of Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital that was purpose-built by the military junta to deter protesters.

An essay on the beheading of the Columbus statue in Boston’s North End and the political implications of monuments.