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The Design Line: 29 January – 4 February
Theaster Gates reveals his Serpentine Pavilion, Texas bans a graphic novel and Notre Dame enters the metaverse in this week's the Design Line roundup.
The Crit #17: Clement Weather
The Crit welcomes new years’ both Gregorian and Lunar with dicussions around the values and vices of NFTs, and the covid-induced design fair calendar summer crunch.
Don’t Cross the Streams
Disegno goes on a Netflix binge and asks, are we in charge of the viewing algorithms or are they in charge of us?
Divine Inspiration
Designer Max Lamb shares a series of objects made from Portland limestone and reclaimed wood, created for a modernist church in London.
The Design Line: 22-28 January, 2022
A demolished Marcel Breuer house, the Mackintosh fire inquiry result and Shell's carbon capture fail feature in this week's the Design Line roundup.
A Point in the Path
Disegno speaks to Mac Collins about receiving the Design Museum’s inaugural Ralph Saltzman Prize and his hope to plot a non-linear route through the discipline.
Metaverse Meditations
Andrés Reisinger talks to Francesca Anderson about his latest digital design, Winter House, and why he believes reluctant designers should embrace the metaverse.
The Biggest Machine on Earth
Disegno delves into the world of lean web design, asking whether there is anything the discipline can do to curb online’s rapacious thirst for energy.
The Design Line: 15-21 January, 2022
The Design Line marks the passing of Ricardo Bofill and André Leon Talley, and passes comment on floating tennis courts and design fair drama.
An Extruded Performance
As he prepares to open a new clay performance and exhibition at 100 Bishopsgate, artist Anton Alvarez speaks to Disegno about his method.
The Seduction of the Bureaucrat
Alison Sinkewicz explores how a series of controversial artworks from Steven Shearer revealed Vancouver’s toxic mixture of rapacious development, public art, and drug overdoses.
Parallel Designs
Studio Weiki Somers does the design time warp for The Roaring Twenties, an exhibition at Museum Kranenburgh in The Netherlands that remixes objects from the past and the present.
The Design Line: 8-14 January, 2022
The Design Line is back, because chairs have been on television, NFTS have invaded a Fijian island, and doctors have genetically engineered a pig’s heart to make it fit for a man.
Relearning History
Disegno discovers the original pioneer of DIY and the secrets of the Soviet space race at Vitra’s exhibition Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today.
Discrete Contact
Felix Chabluk Smith explores the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, reimagined and restored by architect Tadao Ando and designers Ronan and Ewan Bouroullec.
A Floral Algorithm
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg talks about surrendering control, designing for other species, and digital gardens as part of her new project: Pollinator Pathmaker.
The Design Line: 1-7 January, 2022
Calatrava’s slippery bridge, a health tracker for dogs and a country in crisis over cryptocurrency feature as part of Disegno’s new weekly feature: Design Line.
Lightning Rods
Kristina Rapacki explores the history of vaccine hesitancy and asks how graphic design could communicate more effectively with the public to combat online misinformation about immunisation from Covid-19.