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After Plastic
Sony’s Hirotaka Tako and Philip Rose tell Disegno how industrial design is moving beyond plastic with the help of rice husks, bamboo and glowing digital fungi.
In Screaming Colour
Made for Maison et Objet A look into Maison&Objet’s 2022 immersive installation from the international art collective teamLab.
The Robotics of Modern Parenting
Michael David Mitchell wonders if the Snoo, a robotic crib designed by Yves Behar, is the solution to the alienation and difficulty of bringing up a baby in modern America.
The Crit #18: Of Tea
The Crit brings you everything you need to know about design in February 2022.
From Victoriana to Victoriana
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.
A Fashion System of One’s Own
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.
Seen on Screen: Riget
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.
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.