The FDA ban on Juul has stalled. From Disegno 25, Natalie Kane examines the design themes, memes, and appeal to teens of these slick flavoured e-cigarettes.

The passing of Marcus Fairs, a car design from Kanye West, and Google’s move to protect abortion-seekers’ data feature on Design Line.

Bulldozers are moving in to Mumbai’s chawls, but plans to replace low-cost, low-rise worker housing with high-density towers could destroy existing communities.

Inside Emeco’s home away from home, as the furniture makers overhaul an “architecturally dishevelled” 1940s former workshop in Venice, Los Angeles.

Pinch punch, first of the month, it’s Design Line, with the Design Parade winners, senior leadership on the move at The Met, and drama in Ghana over David Adjaye’s landmark project.

Yuri Suzuki’s Ambient Machine reveals the analogue pleasures of a bank of toggle switches.

Mitzi Okou chairs a roundtable with contributors to The Met’s new Afrofuturist period room including curator Hannah Beachler, the costume designer of Blank Panther.

The difference between direct experience versus written evocation comes up for debate as Jonathan Olivares opens his new showroom for Kvadrat in New York.

The mid-summer Design Line is here, with a look at the US’s wave of unionisation, video game disaster simulations, and BIG’s mock-up mistake.

Danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen’s midcentury designs for concertgoers and working people have been reissued by Carl Hansen & Son on the centennial of his practice’s founding.

The Crit is back with discussions about Salone del Mobile, the shocking findings of the Bartlett investigations, and the claimed sentience of Google’s LaMDA chat bot.

From touch to time, craft takes on a sensory approach at this year’s Homo Faber: Living Treasures of Europe and Japan.

Here comes the Design Line, featuring news from 3 Days of Design, the story of the scandal rocking The Bartlett, and the discovery of worms that eat plastic waste.

On the evolution of the graduate show, examining how the the end-of-year get-together for graduating designers has morphed into a platform for talent and trends.

A rewilded crater where Japanese knotweed is being turned into paper, traditional mushroom hats, and firewood exhibition furniture feature at BIO27 in Ljubljana.

The stories East Quay, a new kind of arts and community centre designed by the Onion Collective and Invisible Studio in one of England’s most deprived regions.

Day three of Salone del Mobile includes the Disegno dispatch on Loewe’s luxe approach to refurbishment, Formafantasma’s contemporary take on Mario Bellini, and Konstantin Grcic’s new collection for Plank.

A second day at the Salone del Mobile brings a trip to ECAL’s collaboration with Yamaha, Aldo Bakker’s objects for marijuana, and Front’s nature-infused installation with Moroso and Kvadrat.