For our autumn 2024 edition, Disegno is commissioning a series of essays that focus on the theme of memory in design.

Disegno explores the immersive design of the British Library’s exhibition Beyond the Bassline, and the DIY innovations of Black British musicians, engineers and fans over the last 500 years.

Sanjana Varghese swipes through TikTok to get under the hood of social media’s reigning interface design for Design Reviewed #1.

Felix Chabluk Smith considers getting his trousers taken up as part of a new French repair scheme for Design Reviewed #3.

Disegno explores a series of designs that could aid the transition to renewable energy in Vitra Design Museum’s exhibition Transform! The Future of Energy.

The latest issue of The Journal of Design is ready to be uboxed.

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.

Oli Stratford becomes lost in the relationship between lava lamps and respectability for Design Reviewed #3.

Jonna Dagliden Hunt pours out domestic products with På(fyll), a container engineered to reduce plastic waste, for Design Reviewed #3.

Joe Lloyd corrals the miscellaneous thoughts behind Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise crusade for Design Reviewed #3.

Lara Chapman scrolls through an alternative stock photography website that aims to court designers for Design Reviewed #3.

Lily Wakeley questions whether equipping AI to analyse olive oil leaves a bad taste in the mouth for Design Reviewed #3.

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.

Joshua Segun-Lean sifted through the influences behind Lagos Space Programme’s fashion collections for Design Reviewed #3.

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.

For Design Reviewed #3, Michael Snyder reviews Tatiana Bilbao’s ruin-like aquarium in Mazatlán, Mexico.

Holes in the House uses repeated deconstruction and reconstruction as a new model for Tokyo’s housing.

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.