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The Crit #31: It’s About Time Morris!
The hosts dive into a trio of reports on designing more sustainable cities and touring exhibitions in this episode of The Crit, which features an exclusive interview with Olivier Lacrouts of Studio d-o-t-s.
Seeing Through the Walls of Silicon Valley
Claude Dutson employs technology to snoop around the secretive headquarters of Silicon Valley, probing the methodological limits of proprietary architecture.
Design Line: 19 – 25 August
Spaceships, driverless cars and wind-powered cargo ships – transport abounds in this week’s edition of Design Line.
Never Break the Chain
Tracing the links between chair and jewellery design with the Transition chain necklace from Hall Haus.
Design Line: 12 – 18 August
This week’s Design Line reports on a new tool from Arup that models Urban Heat Islands, the first period product tests to use actual blood, and England’s attempt to outlaw unisex public toilets.
Marble Dust in the Air
Eshwarya Grover documents the work of Studio Raw Material turning Makrana’s marble industry offcuts into furniture.
Economies of Objects
Michael Snyder visits industrial designer Fabien Cappello’s studio in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he collaborates with a local hojalata workshop to create handcrafted tin objects for the home.
Design Line: 5 – 11 August
A guide to more sustainable touring exhibitions from Urge Collective, legal trouble over the Tetris movie, and Tesla’s cardboard cat bed all feature on this week’s Design Line.
Seen on Screen: Ekstrem
Bodies and chairs get extreme in Netflix’s Physical 100, with the arrival of Terje Ekstrøm’s Ekstrem.
Dedicated Music Device
Evi Hall takes a turn with the NW-A306, Sony’s new take on the Walkman typology.
Design Line: 29 July – 8 August
MIT’s design for a wearable ultrasound, a Roblox-enabled app for The Met, and Walthamstow FC’s William Morris kit all feature in this week’s Design Line.
Bowl of Shadows
Svitlana Biedarieva talks with designer Danuta Kril about reinterpreting traditional smoked ceramics from Havarechyna, rescuing clay ahead of the Russian invasion, and celebrating Ukrainian cultural heritage.
A View from the Magpie’s Nest
Tiiu Meiner goes behind the scenes at the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam to find out how museums are coping with increasing costs for collection-preserving climate control during the energy crisis.
Design Line: 22 – 28 July
Mathieu Lahanneur unveils the design for the next Olympic torch, BIG and ICON complete their first 3D-printed house, Twitter rebrands to X in this week’s Design Line.
The Crit #30: Mr Threads
The 30th episode of The Crit features an interview with Timorous Beasties, alongside discussions of the allegations against David Adjaye, Meta’s Twitter challenger Threads, and the tumultuous opening of the Young V&A.
Copy Cows and Rocks of Foam
From Disegno #35, Lara Chapman follows Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren of Front through the Swedish woods, where they are documenting the outdoors in order to bring it inside.
Design Line: 15 – 21 July
A deepfake advert for the Women’s World Cup goes viral, Sebastian Cox creates a timber-lined Aesop shop, and e-bike makers VanMoof declares bankruptcy in the latest edition of Design Line.