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A Rebirth

Stefan Diez’s Ayno lamp heralds the restoration of the storied German lighting brand Midgard, a company esteemed by the Bauhaus that has now returned to prominence with a new approach towards lighting.

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What Lies Beneath

With so much plastic foam ending up as landfill, can designers and manufacturers work together to find a more sustainable future for furniture?

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Protest Too Much

The 2021 Turner Prize has gone to Array, the Belfast-based art collective that uses protest as its medium, just as the UK government seeks to criminalise peaceful civil disobedience.

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The Clock and the Hunchback

Lemmi Shehadi speaks to the people working to rebuild Mosul’s multi-faith community by repairing the places of worship destroyed by the IS and US airstrikes.

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Snap Happy

Enter the Disegno photography competition for your chance to win an Ayno lamp by Stefan Diez for Midgard.

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Nothing About Us Without Us

Jesse Rice-Evans reviews Sara Hendren’s What Can A Body Do? and asks why discussions around adaptive design still refuse to centre disabled people.

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The Crit #15: Garden Via Algorithm

The Crit welcomes Apple repair kits; says goodbye to The Tulip; despairs over Munger Hall; asks how AI can attract bees; and tracks a cow from field to sofa.

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Virgil Abloh (1980 - 2021)

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

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Disegno #31

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.

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Take an E-seat

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

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Data Centre Detectives

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

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Circle Back

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.

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