Melting sugar machetes tell the colonial history of La Réunion in the work of designer Yassine Ben Abdallah, the winner of the 2022 Gijs Bakker award.

The Design Line looks at a week in design television, the unravelling of Made.com, Nigo’s World Cup kit for Japan, and much more.

Less Gesamtkunstwerk and more 3D-simulated catalogue, the first Muji-branded hotel in Shenzhen offers Brendan Cormier a hollow experience.

What will the Anthropocene leave behind? From Disegno 33, Lara Chapman unearths the fossils of the future.

Netflix enters the video gaming arena, IKEA raises its prices on flatpack furniture, and the death toll mounts for a desert megacity in this week’s Design Line.

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls designed their apps to be addictive – now they’re offering ways to wean ourselves off them. But can you ever design a perfect digital detox?

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.

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.

Alice Twemlow visits Formafantasma at their home studio to discuss research, raw materials, and walking the line between climate crisis and commercial design.

Brian Hioe walks the unfinished corridors of the much-delayed Taipei Performing Arts Center, an OMA-designed building mired in local political controversy.

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.

Sabine Marcelis rearranges the rainbow for furniture in the Colour Rush! exhibition at the Vitra Schaudepot, captured here by Laurence Kubski.

Industrial Facility takes Pure back to its roots with the Evoke Play, a minimalist radio for the streaming era.

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.

How bona to vada dally screeving about the palare of the omee-palones. Discover the history of Polari, the secret language of Britain’s gay community.

Yinka Ilori takes Georgina Johnson of a tour of his new Sam Jacob-designed London studio and unpacks his colourful community-minded philosophy.

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.

Disegno and the Het Nieuwe Instituut present Design Drafts #1 with this online exclusive from Andrew Pasquier on the festivalisation of nightlife design.