Stories
Chairing the Woman’s Role
Ella Bulley shapes new narratives about women’s roles and the representation of their bodies through a family of three wooden chairs.
Disegno #36
Prepare to be stopped in your tracks: the new issue of Disegno is available to buy now!
Design Line: 2 – 8 September
This week on Design Line, a secret city-building project surfaces in California,the Stirling Prize shortlist is released, and a crumbling concrete crisis hits.
Disegno at LDF 2023
Join Disegno and Brompton Design District at LDF for a pair of panel discussions on the benefits of working together in design.
Learning from Failure with Stephen Burks
Stephen Burks reflects on what success truly means when the design industry resists diversity.
Terms of Address
ProxyAddress creator Chris Hildrey on designing a system to redistribute postal addresses to help people experiencing homelessness.
Design Line: 26 August - 1 September
Tremaine Emory quits Supreme, Space 10 closes down, and iFixit takes on the always-broken McFlurry machine in this week’s Design Line.
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.