Stories
A Second Life
Feria Hábitat Valencia’s 2024 fair featured emerging designers and established brands trying their hand at reinvention.
The White Book
Nobel Prize winner Han Kang's novel The White Book reflects on the history of the colour white across art, architecture and design.
Sketching Objects
Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska blends industrial silhouettes with natural, curved forms in Flaner, her new outdoor furniture collection.
The Crit #2: Bethan Laura Wood
The second episode of The Crit is now live and sees designer Bethan Laura Wood look back on her own career.
Film: Muse, Speak! Inspiration in design
Watch a recording of Muse, Speak!, a panel discussion hosted by Disegno and BLOND about the topic of inspiration in design.
LDF 2024 Round Up
Our Loundon Design Festival round up includes foraging food, making hooks, and much more.
Introducing: The Crit
Disegno is proud to announce the launch of The Crit: Designers Review Themselves, a new fortnightly podcast in which designers look back on the highlights and lowlights of their careers. The first episode, with Yinka Ilori, is now available to download.
Folded Form
Pauline Loctin creates a floating, folded paper installation for Uncommon Holborn.
Disegno #38
Disegno #38 reflects on the role of memory in design through short stories about recollection, regeneration, preservation and legacy.
The Eternal Return
Homo Faber's 2024 festival in Venice traces the journey of life and death and explores the humanity and immortality of craft.
Event Invitation: Muse, Speak! Inspiration in design
Disegno and BLOND invite you to a panel discussion disentangling inspiration in the design process, as well as the launch of a new issue of the Journal of Design.
A Non-Light Light
Bocci's theatrical glowing orb breaks the conventions of portable design.
Soft Power Architecture
The new Residence of the Swiss Ambassador in Algeria bucks the trend of imposing embassy architecture with a modest building designed for family life.
Tangible Action
Hamed Ouattara salvages oil drums and invests in his community in Burkina Faso.
Fringe Benefits
Sarah Brunnhuber creates zero-waste garments with unexpected fringe details that illustrate her production process.
Für Edward
Oli Stratford explores designs for pets, and the negotiations involved in living alongside a non-human animal.
A Foldable Canvas
Studio Unosinotra’s customisable stool is a riff on Filippino street furniture.