Stories
An Important Failure
The Design Museum’s Enzo Mari exhibition grapples with its subject’s prescience and legacy, while also suggesting contemporary design’s failure to heed his message.
Rising, Dancing, Twisting
Oli Stratford becomes lost in the relationship between lava lamps and respectability for Design Reviewed #3.
The Modern Milkman
Jonna Dagliden Hunt pours out domestic products with På(fyll), a container engineered to reduce plastic waste, for Design Reviewed #3.
The Attention of Passersby
Joe Lloyd corrals the miscellaneous thoughts behind Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise crusade for Design Reviewed #3.
Stock Creep
Lara Chapman scrolls through an alternative stock photography website that aims to court designers for Design Reviewed #3.
The Corruptibility of Olive Oil
Lily Wakeley questions whether equipping AI to analyse olive oil leaves a bad taste in the mouth for Design Reviewed #3.
Good Road, Bad Road
For Design Reviewed #3, Evi Hall got on her bike to forge a new relationship with London’s streets with help from Beeline’s Velo 2.
To Speak Amongst Ourselves
Joshua Segun-Lean sifted through the influences behind Lagos Space Programme’s fashion collections for Design Reviewed #3.
Working Between the Lines
What is transdisciplinary design and how does it impact us today? In this roundtable, a collection of students and a coordinator from the IED’s Transdiciplinary Design Master’s programme discuss the course’s foundational principles and how this shapes their work and design philosophies.
Remnants of a Retreating Sea
For Design Reviewed #3, Michael Snyder reviews Tatiana Bilbao’s ruin-like aquarium in Mazatlán, Mexico.
Radically Unfinished
Holes in the House uses repeated deconstruction and reconstruction as a new model for Tokyo’s housing.
Design Line: 17 - 23 February
From golden syrup to golden shoes, this week’s Design Line ponders how the language of design is being co-opted for political messages, as well as including stories about material tracing, manufactured outrage and un-radical retrofitting.
Following Whom?
The members of Formafantasma come together to discuss Oltre Terra, their exploration of the history of sheep, and how interspecies relationships are fertile territory for design.
Regional Modernisms; Tropical Skins
Olorunfemi Adewuyi explores the forgotten art of Nigeria’s modernist architecture.
Design Line: 10 - 16 February
We all know the world is a complex place and this week’s Design Line sees everyone, from governments and funding bodies to art collectives and AI, grappling with how to navigate this complexity – some, we feel, are doing a far better job than others.
Navigating Friction
For Disegno #36, Amal Alhaag spoke with designer Yassine Ben Abdallah about his practice, working with institutions and letting objects die.
Home, Work, and Where Else?
Studio Saar crafts a climate-sensitive community space for Udaipur.