Stories
A History of Swiss Aluminium
The making of sand-cast aluminium chairs, designed by Moritz Schmid and Ville Kokkonen, using 3D-printed moulds by a family-run foundry in Switzerland.
Of Fashion and Space
Celine Art Project, a contemporary-art collection presented by the luxury-fashion house Celine, prompts a look into how fashion continuously reinvents its retail spaces.
Formafantasma’s Findings
Alice Twemlow visits Formafantasma at their home studio to discuss research, raw materials, and walking the line between climate crisis and commercial design.
Beta Testing
Brian Hioe walks the unfinished corridors of the much-delayed Taipei Performing Arts Center, an OMA-designed building mired in local political controversy.
The Design Line: 1 – 7 October
The V&A finally cuts ties to the Sackler family, Coperni sprays a dress onto Bella Hadid, and the European Union makes its move against charger clutter.
The Texture of Colour
Sabine Marcelis rearranges the rainbow for furniture in the Colour Rush! exhibition at the Vitra Schaudepot, captured here by Laurence Kubski.
Radio Resurrection
Industrial Facility takes Pure back to its roots with the Evoke Play, a minimalist radio for the streaming era.
The Design Line: 24 – 30 September
Another major fashion house rebrands, the UN makes a declaration on architecture and climate change, and 3D-printed balance benches feature on Design Line this week.
Everybody Come
Yinka Ilori takes Georgina Johnson of a tour of his new Sam Jacob-designed London studio and unpacks his colourful community-minded philosophy.
LDF 2022 Diaries: Day Three
Finish your LDF 2022 experience off in style with Disegno’s hand-picked list of all the shows you should see before the week is up.
Night Consumer
Disegno and the Het Nieuwe Instituut present Design Drafts #1 with this online exclusive from Andrew Pasquier on the festivalisation of nightlife design.
LDF 2022 Diaries: Day Two
How many designers does it take to fell a tree? What happened to Shoreditch’s Tramshed? All this and more answered in today’s report from London Design Festival 2022.
Disegno at LDF
The Disegno guide to all our parties and events to RSVP to ahead of London Design Festival 2022, which begins on 17 September.
LDF 2022 Diaries: Day One
This week the Disegno team is exploring the 2022 London Design Festival. Over the coming days we’ll be sharing our reflections from the festival and picking out some of the installations and exhibitions that stood out.
The Design Line: 10 – 16 September
Design Line casts its beady eye over the Young Climate Prize, London Design Medals, Patagonia, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
A Clean B.I.L.L. of Health
A new robot from Nike cleans and repairs worn-out shoes, but should the brand’s entry into a new area of repair be seen as a service or an installation?
The Crit #23: White Whale
To celebrate the upcoming launch of Disegno #34 our co-hosts give a behind-the-scenes view of some of the most topical pieces from the new issue.