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.

Disegno goes on a Netflix binge and asks, are we in charge of the viewing algorithms or are they in charge of us?

Designer Max Lamb shares a series of objects made from Portland limestone and reclaimed wood, created for a modernist church in London.

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.

Andrés Reisinger talks to Francesca Anderson about his latest digital design, Winter House, and why he believes reluctant designers should embrace the metaverse.

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.

As he prepares to open a new clay performance and exhibition at 100 Bishopsgate, artist Anton Alvarez speaks to Disegno about his method.

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.

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.

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.

Felix Chabluk Smith explores the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, reimagined and restored by architect Tadao Ando and designers Ronan and Ewan Bouroullec.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg talks about surrendering control, designing for other species, and digital gardens as part of her new project: Pollinator Pathmaker.

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.

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.