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A Super Normal Stool

Naoto Fukasawa’s Za stool imports the designer’s notion of the Super Normal into Emeco’s collection of aluminium seating.

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Lockdown Candles

Lex Pott tells the tale of how his twisting, looping candles took off during lockdown, and the challenges behind manufacturing the perfect kink.

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Designed by Cambridge

The University of Cambridge has announced a new undergraduate course in design, promising to “merge arts and science to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges”.

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Countermeasures

From Disegno #15, Jeannette Petrik and Jonas Holthaus visit a workshop run by Jerszy Seymour for Cucula, a design programme set up to help refugees in Berlin.

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So Little

From Disegno #29, Mimi Zeiger meets the architects and residents of Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home Village, a tiny homes project offering shelter to people experiencing homelessness in LA.

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Pandemic Pictograms

Beware the chair in Sitting might just be what kills you, a new short film by Alexandre Humbert that explores the design language of 1,000 coronavirus warning signs.

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Yes, Yes, Yes

Yinka Ilori’s Lego launderette evokes memories of childhood, and the sensations of fun and possibility that emerge from the mundane.

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Here is the House

From Disegno #23, Joe Lloyd considers the riddle of conservation with Hill House, a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building sheltering from the Scottish rain beneath Carmody Groake’s mesh cloak.

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Chairing the Circle

Designer Ineke Hans has teamed up with furniture newcomer Circuform to relaunch her injection-moulded REX chair as a closed loop product made from recycled plastic.

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Rail Baltica

From Disegno #14, Crystal Bennes explores Rail Baltica – a proposed train network which intends to connect the three Baltic countries and better integrate them into the EU.

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The Crit #14: Suitably Woolly

The Crit explores Expo 2020; The Simpsons’s collaboration with Balenciaga; a new set of Eames trainers; and an extended interview with MoMu’s Kaat Debo.

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A National Design?

From Disegno #21, the journal delves into the issue of national design identity, prompted by the multi-year, multi-designer renovation of Sweden’s Nationalmuseum.

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Rigorous Self-Referentiality

From Disegno #25, curator and writer Glenn Adamson gives his verdict on the 2019 revamp of the MoMA as the institution grapples with its past.

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Toast Returns

After a six-and-a-half-year hiatus, fashion brand Toast has restored menswear to its collection – its head of menswear explains why the time was right for a comeback.

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Ceaseless Porousness

Anicka Yi’s boundary-blurring bio-robots have opened to the public in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

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Blue is the Warmest Colour

From Disegno #19, artist and designer Aboubakar Fofana on reviving the Malian tradition of natural indigo dyeing that was picked apart by colonialism and capitalism.

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