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DisegnoPersonalised Inhaler Hale, a new company designing cases for asthma inhalers, took inspiration from a prop used in a James Bond film (image: Hale).
DisegnoThe Soul of the Archive Nicolau Carmenati turned the sculptures of his grandfather, architect Vincenzo Carmenati, into lamps (image: Carmenati Archive).
DisegnoThe Crit #45: Deborah Cook The Crit , a fortnightly podcast from Disegno , asks designers to pass judgement on their careers, sharing their greatest wins and their biggest fumbles.
DisegnoFour Moons From Home Architect and artist Dima Srouji created windows filled with Palestinian flora for the Mosaic Rooms (image: courtesy of the Mosaic Rooms).
DisegnoWhat’s In a Chair? Yinka Ilori, photographed in Chairman (image: Kane Hulse). When I first interviewed Yinka Ilori in 2016, it was for an article in Mr Porter , commissioned to explore a selection of five different…
DisegnoThe 21st-Century Highway and the City The Jaguar Type 01, photographed in New York (image: courtesy of Jaguar). In his 1964 essay ‘The Highway and the City’, American sociologist Lewis Mumford provided a striking assessment of the…
DisegnoThe Crit #44: Stephen Burks and Malika Leiper The Crit , a fortnightly podcast from Disegno , asks designers to look back over their careers, reflecting on their proudest achievements and the missteps they’ve learned from along the way.
DisegnoThreading History The textile work of Senegalese-French artist and designer, Aissa Dione (image: Djibril Drame). When I first came to Dakar in November 2023, I reached out to textile designer Aissa Dione through a…
DisegnoEngineering the Bloom Øivind Slaatto’s new lamp for Carl Hansen & Søn takes inspiration from the mathematical principles that characterise the growth of begonia flowers (image: Carl Hansen & Søn).
DisegnoA Cartographical Statement Onne is an interactive map of Sweden marked in red to show the threats to Sámi communities (image: Petter Schölander).
DisegnoGilding the Lily Marcin Rusak’s work explores the preservation and decay of plants (image: Marcin Rusak Studio). Inside Marcin Rusak’s studio on the outskirts of Warsaw is an archive of material research: lightweight…
DisegnoThe Tower and the Landscape Wildlife Tower 01, designed by Pearce+ (image: Samuel Bray). The tower is tall, stacked with homes of different sizes.
DisegnoThe Crit #43: Alexandra Gerber The Crit , a fortnightly podcast from Disegno , invites designers to pass judgement on their careers to date, sharing both their favourite designs and worst missteps.
DisegnoLDF 2026 Round Up Isabel + Helen’s train designed to make eggs spin when pulled (image: Isabel + Helen). Last week saw London given over to the 2026 edition of the London Design Festival (LDF), an annual celebration…
DisegnoEvolving Craft Kataginu by Arimatsu Narumi Shibori and Bethan Laura Wood (image: Ed Reeve). Traditional crafts are used in unexpected ways in this year’s edition of Craft x Tech , an exhibition exploring possible…
DisegnoDisegno #42 The cover of Disegno #42 features EVJ bag No. 16, designed by Elisa van Joolen and commissioned by Z33 House For Contemporary Art Design and Architecture; Jan van Eyck Academie; 38CC; and Het Nieuwe…
DisegnoA Welcome Limitation Design Everything With Limitations on display at Aram (image: Kane Hulse). In 1972, Charles Eames used his short film Design Q&A to expound a view of design as being a discipline whose task is to…
DisegnoA Canvas for Life Chybík + Krištof’s Jihlava Municipal Arena is a multifunctional public space (image: Fabrice Fouillet).
DisegnoThe Crit #42: Adam Nathaniel Furman The Crit , a fortnightly podcast from Disegno , asks designers to evaluate their own careers, reflecting on their greatest hits and biggest missteps.
DisegnoCraft and Spectacle Es Devlin in the “A Full Moon Rising” space at Homo Faber (image: courtesy of Homo Faber). As I arrived in Venice for the latest edition of Homo Faber , the biannual craft exhibition organised by the…
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