Disegno looks back on the genre-defying career of Virgil Abloh, the trailblazing Black designer who is dead at the age of 41.

Disegno’s 31st edition is filled to the brim with exciting and insightful long-form journalism to restore your flagging spirits and warm your arterial cockles.

Niall McLaughlin Architects’s timber library for Magdalene College, Cambridge, has won the Wood Awards’ 2021 Gold Award.

After the V&A’s U-turn, Glenn Adamson explains how museums have got themselves in a muddle when it comes to chronological order.

Inside the weird world of NFT furniture, where you can spend thousands on a chair you’ll never be able to sit on.

An exhibition in London reveals the secret lives of data centres, the hidden architecture that’s poised to take over the world.

Invisible Lines is a capsule collection of round glasses designed by a group of friends who posted the titanium frames back and forth across the globe during the pandemic.

After years of planned obsolescence and criticism from the right-to-repair movement, Apple is going to offer at-home DIY repair kits for iPhones and Macbooks.

Honext is the sustainable building material that solves sludge problems for paper mills by turning waste into a recyclable MDF alternative.

Odd Matter’s Afterlife crate for Supernovas is a durable and multipurpose home accessory made from recycled plastic that offers an alternative to fast furniture.

From Disegno #29, an interview with solar designer Marjan van Aubel on her new sunshine-powered lamp Sunne and the dream of a solar democracy.

From Disegno #10, architecture writer Matthew Allen presses his nose up against the glass of the many windows of Grace Farms, the mysterious utopian community centre designed by Sanaa in Connecticut.

From Disegno #11, dancer Adrien Dantou gets comfortable in Hieronymous, designer Konstantin Grcic’s series of experimental seating structures.

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

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

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”.

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.

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.