Stories
Vacation, All I Never Wanted
For Design Reviewed #1, Oli Stratford swelters through the heat in Bali to review The Desa Potato Head resort’s zero waste strategy.
Reading Between the Signs
Khorshed Deboo takes stock of the hand-painted multilingual signs of Mumbai vanishing due to policy change for Design Reviewed #1.
Poppers On Main
Amelia Abraham sniffs out Bompas & Parr’s luxury poppers Excalibur XO and the mainstreaming of queer nightlife culture for Design Reviewed #1.
Connection is Medicine
Helen Gonzalez Brown reviews the Apple Watch Ultra and grapples with anxiety, mortality, and the cult of wellness for Design Reviewed #1.
From the Sea
Disegno meets the avant garde designers creating seaweed couture at Reykjavik’s DesignMarch 2023.
The Spectre of Milan
First published in Disegno #10 to mark Milan Design Week, Hella Jongerius, Paola Antonelli, Patricia Urquiola the late Alessandro Mendini – and many more – share their oral histories of the city.
Du français au russe en français
Jasper Morrison’s Raami project for Finnish design brand Iittala prompts consideration of the history of informal dining and convivial tableware.
A Radical Reduction
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has developed a powder-to-liquid soap to cut down on plastic waste.
Gesamtkunsthandwerk in Coromandel
A summer of collaboration between designers, potters and artists at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries on New Zealand’s Coromandel peninsula.
A Neotenic State of Mind
From Disegno #22, Justin Donnelly unpacks the science behind super-cute furniture that makes your subconscious squee.
Better Sensation
Johanna Agerman Ross travels to Burgundy to interview designer Erwan Bouroullec at La Grange, the rural retreat that’s transforming his practice.
Embrace the Weird
Sophie Tolhurst reviews Weird Sensation Feels Good, and asks what gets sanitised when an internet phenomena is embraced by traditional design institutions.
Fibre to Form
Disegno reveals the secrets of Forward, Nike’s years-long confidential research project culminating in a new material made from plastic bottles.
United by Design
How architectural workers in the UK and US are unionising to resist the industry’s toxic culture of overwork and underpay.
The Everywhere Chair
From Autun to Foshun, Brendan Cormier traces a century of manufacturing Xavier Pauchard’s ubiquitous Tolix Chaise A.
Whose Future?
As major institutions put on exhibitions curating utopian visions for the future, Zara Arshad enquires as to whether they have grappled fully with their colonial pasts.
Without the Mess
Less Gesamtkunstwerk and more 3D-simulated catalogue, the first Muji-branded hotel in Shenzhen offers Brendan Cormier a hollow experience.