The Crit brings you everything you need to know about design in February 2022.

Disegno speaks to fashion designer Mary Katrantzou about pushing the envelope for colour and pattern with her postage stamp butterfly tile collaboration with Villeroy & Boch.

As a new display of Bethany Williams’s work opens at London’s Design Museum, we revisit our interview with the designer from 2020 about working in fashion during lockdown.

A beautiful new wing to Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet stands in stark contrast to the glowering menace of the existing building, as made famous in Lars von Trier’s TV series Riget.

Poet Richard Osmond explores in verse a design project from Goldsmiths’ Interaction Research studio: sunglasses for puffins.

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 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.

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.

Front dives into the history of the mirror, with a collection for Galerie Kreo that explores its material and cultural resonances.

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.