Fresh lipstick and fat bacteria; Oli Stratford tours the studio of Shellworks, an experimental company making biodegradable beauty packaging.

This week on Design Line, the Playdate gaming console launches, a London landmark temporarily escapes demolition, and Netflix has a rocky first quarter.

Natalie Kane, Keiichi Matsuda and Florian Dussopt explore the design significance of the metaverse as part of a live event hosted at Molteni&C.

Weed’d head of design Simone Bonanni talks to Disegno about ceramic bongs and developing a made in Italy cannabis culture.

Crystal Bennes ventures to Gipsön, the mysterious island made of radioactive waste from the fertiliser industry that sits off the coast of Sweden.

This week on the Design Line we explore the demolition of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Aric Chen taking on the London Design Biennale, and an app that makes web browsing more accessible.

Roland Lamb, founder of Roli and creator of the Seaboard Rise 2, sits down with Disegno to discuss the philosophy of designing new musical instruments.

Sophie Tolhurst talks to designer Matty Bovan about fitting photos, the less glamorous yet more revealing behind-the-scenes images of creation in process.

This week on The Design Line we look at a new Lego campus, an incubator for Black designers, Twitter’s new billionaire majority shareholder, and much more.

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

From Disegno #30, Peter Kapos reviews the Vitra Design Museum exhibition and book, German Design 1949-1989, and asks if romanticising the past poses a risk in the present.

A roundtable exploring whether challenging the way that design treats plants help to shift our perceptions of materials, value, resources and equity?

This week on The Design Line, the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity launches, a SCI-Arc panel goes wrong, The Bartlett gets a new director, Dyson raises eyebrows with its invention, a row over biopiracy at the UN, and three new museums for Doha.

Joe Lloyd reviews the return of Maison&Objet design fair, as an unseasonal heatwave bathes Paris in sunshine and a distinctly bon vivant atmosphere.

Disegno’s 32nd print edition is now available, featuring stories about Matrix, Hannah Beachler, Stefan Diez, the Nagakin Capsule Tower, the chawls of Mumbai, and much more.

Academic and pole dancer Carolina Are the connections between OnlyFans' attempt to design out porn and the draconian legislation trying to cleanse the internet.

A week in design brings news of the death of Stephen E. Wilhite, the creator of GIFs; the discovery of microplastics in blood; a long belated shortlist for the directorship of the Architectural Association; and much more.

A recreation of Ettore Sottsass’s 1960s Casa Lana in the Triennale Milano offers a compelling portrait of the designer mid-career.