Stories
Design Line: 8 – 14 April
Guillermo Andrade is named creative advisor of football’s League Cup, the NYPD debuts crime-fighting robots, and fashion says farewell to Mary Quant in this week’s Design Line.
Disegno at Milan Design Week 2023
A complete list of Disegno’s talks, launches and publications for this year’s Milan Design Week, including the arrival of Disegno #35.
Design Line: 1 – 7 April
This week, Design Line features Nike’s period-proof football shorts for the Women’s World Cup, a mysterious installation from Studio Swine, and the best of the design world’s April Fools Day pranks.
Du français au russe en français
Jasper Morrison’s Raami project for Finnish design brand Iittala prompts consideration of the history of informal dining and convivial tableware.
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.