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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.