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Disegno #33
Rejoice, for Disegno’s summer 2022 edition is here! Disegno #33 includes a political report from OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Centre; colourful curation with Sabine Marcelis; a journey into Yinka Ilori’s new home; and a study of who gets left out when design imagines the future.
The Design Line: 21 - 27 May
Sit tight! It’s this week’s Design Line, filled with news about the end of Marcel Wanders Studio; a redesigned missing person poster; and Foscarini’s acquisition of Ingo Maurer’s lighting company.
It Has Pockets
Disegno interviews Hanna Ter Meulen, co-founder of Early Majority, a technical outerwear brand addressing the pockets gender gap.
A Pachinko Game on Anabolic Steroids
Immersed in the surreal world of Tokyo’s pachinko arcades, Luke Caspar Pearson elaborates on the architectural complexity of Japanese medal games.
Useful for Some; Fatal for Others
As UK restaurants are legally compelled to include calorie counts for their dishes, Georgina Bronte lays out the risks of redesigning menus.
The Design Line: 14 - 20 May
A new director for the AA, a campus for Google, accessible computer accessories, and a pavilion for Melbourne all feature on this week’s Design Line.
Enter the Zoöp
Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s artistic and general director, discusses transforming the institution into the world’s first zoöp: a body dedicated to ecological regeneration and representing non-human life.
Blocks, Each Exactly One Cubic Metre
Minecraft is raising a new generation of young gamers applying their design skills to real-world issues, but its first foray into mobile AR gaming raises questions about surveillance technology.
The Ground of Palestine
Artist Ariel Caine meets architect Dima Srouji and archaeologist Silvia Truini to discuss archaeology as a tool of colonisation and settlement in Palestine.
The Design Line: 7 - 13 May
Design Line covers the end of the iPod, more than a bit of Bitcoin drama, an ear-tingling ASMR exhibition, and a political interruption.
McModernism, USA
She said no pickles. Kate Wagner mourns the loss of garish Hamburgler decor as McDonald’s revamps itself to fit with the trend for boring, brandless spaces.
Fewer Pictures of the Cigar-Smoking
Drawn together by ArkDes, a group of architects and curators take aim at the myth of Sigurd Lewerentz, and explain why this giant of 20th-century Swedish architecture’s work was so much greater, richer and stranger in reality.
The Design Line: 30 April - 6 May
It’s a week of multi-billion rail announcements, drone chaos, rhythmic tremors, and historical dress scandal as Design Line returns with all the latest news.
A Topography for Encounter
From Disegno #31, a roundtable interview with Herzog & de Meuron on the opening of M+, a Hong Kong museum in built on reclaimed land in a city at a political crossroads.
A Meeting of Waste Streams
From Disegno #26, Attua Aparicio Torinos creates emoji plates out of discarded porcelain from Jingdezhen and glass remnants.
The Design Line: 23 - 29 April
This week on Design Line, Design Shanghai is postponed amidst lockdowns, Thomas Heatherwick shocks the world with a tree-themed design, and Prince Charles backs a gas mask for cows.
Design Drafts – an open call for new design writers
Het Nieuwe Instituut and Disegno partner to run Design Drafts an open call for new design writing and writers.
Old Skins for New Boots
From Disegno #26, the making of Matthias Winkler’s debut collection of non-binary boots made from deadstock material that includes old lederhosen.