Stories
An Experiment in Sitting
From Disegno #11, dancer Adrien Dantou gets comfortable in Hieronymous, designer Konstantin Grcic’s series of experimental seating structures.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Yes, Yes, Yes
Yinka Ilori’s Lego launderette evokes memories of childhood, and the sensations of fun and possibility that emerge from the mundane.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Town House Triumphant
Grafton Architects’ Town House for Kingston University has won the Stirling Prize, but does its concrete construction justify itself in an era of climate collapse?
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.
Ceaseless Porousness
Anicka Yi’s boundary-blurring bio-robots have opened to the public in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
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.