Stories
A Brick is Born
From Disegno #23, an interview with Hella Jongerius’ on her year of looms and weaving for her project Interlace, textile research.
Design Line: 25 – 31 March
Pepsi bids a sweet farewell to sugar with its rebrand, a Pantone-matched Ketchup-red tattoo ink from Heinz, and a fashionable AI hoax all feature on this week’s Design Line.
Design Line: 18 – 24 March
Pokémon meets traditional Japanese crafts in a new exhibition, New York debuts a controversial new logo, and Jeremy Scott creates couture from cars in this week’s Design Line.
A Radical Reduction
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has developed a powder-to-liquid soap to cut down on plastic waste.
Gesamtkunsthandwerk in Coromandel
A summer of collaboration between designers, potters and artists at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries on New Zealand’s Coromandel peninsula.
Design Line: 11 – 17 March
Everyone’s shooting for the moon in this edition of Design Line, as NASA reveals a fashionable new look for its astronauts, while the UK Space Agency funds the design of a tiny lunar nuclear reactor.
Queer Refusal
Queer voices in design and urbanism explore architecture as a site of disobedience in a roundtable to mark the publication of Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories.
A Neotenic State of Mind
From Disegno #22, Justin Donnelly unpacks the science behind super-cute furniture that makes your subconscious squee.
Design Line: 4 – 10 March
Clapping and scrolling all around this week on Design Line as David Chipperfield finally gets his Pritzker Prize, Bethan Laura Wood enters the NGV’s permanent collection, and Spotify attempts to get a bit of that TikTok magic.
Design Line: 25 February – 3 March
This week, Design Line spotlights China’s design for a new lunar lander, the Ukrainian postal service’s stamp-based message to Putin, and Nokia’s digital-first rebrand.
Learning from Failure
Designer Ineke Hans shares what she learnt from the second life of her recycled plastic chair Rex in Learning from Failure.
Better Sensation
Johanna Agerman Ross travels to Burgundy to interview designer Erwan Bouroullec at La Grange, the rural retreat that’s transforming his practice.
Design Line: 18 – 24 February
The design world addresses the climate crisis in this edition of Design Line, with new initiatives, prizes and promises to make the Venice Architecture Biennale carbon neutral.
To Be Clear
Phone (1) by tech startup Nothing is a transparent smartphone that’s a direct response to the industry’s obsession with black box design and programmed obsolescence.
Embrace the Weird
Sophie Tolhurst reviews Weird Sensation Feels Good, and asks what gets sanitised when an internet phenomena is embraced by traditional design institutions.
Design Line: 11 – 17 February
Pharrell Williams gets the nod from Louis Vuitton, Jony Ive’s new heraldry, and the 15-minute city moral panic all feature on Design Line this week.
Politically Erect
Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper documents the rigorous testing processes at Worlds Best Condom Factory in Denmark.