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No Randomness: The London plane tree

Oscar Lhermitte explains why the London plane tree is so widely used in urban planning.

The Crit #4: Seetal Solanki

Seetal Solanki joins The Crit to discuss her career to date, reflecting on her interest in materials, site-specific design solutions, and making education more accessible and enjoyable.

Just My Type

Design studio BNAG and type foundry ABC Dinamo flirted across disciplinary boundaries to create metal brackets which add typographic elements to furniture.

At All Scales

In Disegno #37, Evi Hall brought together a roundtable of designers and biologists to reflect on the opportunities and challenges of these disciplines meeting in the realm of bio-tech.

The Crit #3: Martino Gamper

Martino Gamper joins The Crit to coincide with Before, After and Beyond, his retrospective at 11 Mansfield Street.
Curated by Martino Gamper and Sarah Douglas

Open Call: Survival

For our spring 2025 edition, Disegno is commissioning a series of essays that focus on the theme of survival in design.

Ties that Bind

The State of Fashion 2024 biennale in the Netherlands used a decentralised curatorial structure to showcase work from the Global South that addresses the ongoing effects of colonialism and overconsumption on the fashion industry.

Event Invitation: Are We Having Fun Yet?

Disegno invites you to a gaming night and panel discussion to explore how the digital space of video game could influence other design fields

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Disegno #38

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Disegno #38 includes:

Yui Tezuka climbing onto the roof of her childhood home; the digital legacy of Bandai-Namco’s Tamagotchis; building an educational space in nature with ANO Ghana; a seaside trip to Hat Projects’ new business centre; ÉCAL students’ thirsty furniture; a visit to Erich Mendelsohn’s first ever building and a journey through desecrated graves; Yuri Suzuki’s AI-generated sonic architecture; cave_bureau’s bid to save Mt Suswa from water scarcity; Nigel Shafran’s beautifully everyday workbooks; Stephen Burks Man Made’s work to sculpt objects honouring ancestors; experiments led by Folkform at the last Masonite factory in Sweden; celebrating the natural composition of linoleum with Christein Meindertsma; and making energy output physical with Industrial Facility.

Disegno #38 is released on 16 September 2024.

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