From logo to lounge chair, Magnus Englund charts the creation of Jasper Morrison’s single-piece plywood furniture through the history of Isokon Plus.

The Disegno team sign off for 2021. Thank you to everyone who has made it what it was.

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Eames Office, the practice has launched a new edition of Charles and Ray Eames’s groundbreaking 1943 Molded Plywood Sculpture. To mark the occasion, Disegno sat down with the designers’ grandson, Eames Demetrios, to discuss the sculpture’s significance to their practice.

As 2021 draws to a close, The Crit invites you to settle down, relax and plug in to our design review of the past year. Happy holiday listening!

A look at Maison&Objet’s Rising Talent Award, which for the March 2022 edition of the fair is honouring six emerging designers from Japan.

As the NHS prepares to roll out the IUB Ballerine, Helen Brown explores the uncomfortable history of design for contraceptive intrauterine devices.

Arctic researcher Lola Sheppard interviews architect Dorte Mandrup about the Ilulissat Icefjord Centre in Greenland, a visitor hub serving witness to a glacier beaten back by climate change.

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.

Balkrishna Doshi, architect of low-cost housing for the poor in India, has expressed his delight at winning a Royal Gold Medal at the age of 94.

A celebration of Iittala’s 140th anniversary explores the supernatural tales, magic, and witchcraft that haunt the history of Finnish glassblowing.

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

Benjamin Bansal and Manuel Oka explore the empty streets of Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital that was purpose-built by the military junta to deter protesters.

Jeremy Myerson looks at the changing landscape for design for the elderly through the eclectic and imaginative contributions to the 19 Chairs project.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.