Stories
Puffin Poem
Poet Richard Osmond explores in verse a design project from Goldsmiths’ Interaction Research studio: sunglasses for puffins.
From Rouge to Rage
Glenn Adamson and Sarah Archer explore the changing cultural significance of the colour pink, accompanied by an assortment of rose imagery, shot by Theresa Marx at Berlin’s Terrassenhaus.
The Design Line: 5 – 11 February
This week's the Design Line includes a new director for the Cooper Hewitt, a redesign of Sketch’s Instagram-famous pink room, and MVRDV breaking its silence over the Marble Arch Mound.
A Bacterial Banquet
The Portal Tables project at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, sees The Decorators explore commensality, with a series of inflatable furniture that invites humans and microbes to dine together.
Source of the Amazon
Disegno speaks to Danielle Dean about Amazon (Proxy), a multimedia installation that has Amazon Mechanical Turk workers retell the story of Henry Ford’s failed plantation in the Amazon.
Seven Excerpts About Seven Mirrors
Front dives into the history of the mirror, with a collection for Galerie Kreo that explores its material and cultural resonances.
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.