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The second edition of the Craft x Tech initiative explores Japan’s Tokai region, and places its culture of craft into fresh relationships with contemporary designers.

Disegno #42

Disegno #42 explores transformation within design, examining themes of transition, adaptation and renewal.

A Welcome Limitation

A roundtable with the team behind Design Everything for their new exhibition at Aram: a fictional flat filled with objects created through the limitations on new designers’ work.

A Canvas for Life

Chybík + Krištof’s Jihlava Municipal Arena is a new multifunctional public space in Czechia that is designed to serve the local community as much as possible.

The Crit #42: Adam Nathaniel Furman

Adam Nathaniel Furman, an artist and designer, joins the show to discuss the history of colour in architecture and the challenges of viral design.

Craft and Spectacle

Es Devlin’s art direction for the fourth edition of the Homo Faber biennale explores the potential for stagecraft and physical proximity to shape appreciation of craft.

Paper Heirlooms

Tanaka Eyewear’s new glasses are made from compressed paper composite, and embrace impermanence by allowing the material to develop a patina and using gold to repair dents or chips.

Sketches of Utopia From Hell

In Disegno #38, Darran Anderson travels to architect Erich Mendelsohn’s first building in Poland and reflects on desecrated gravesites around the world.

Input / Output

Disegno #42

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Disegno #42 includes:

Elisa van Joolen’s caretaker scheme for hybridised plastic bags; Fredrik Paulsen bringing the skatepark to design through Joy Objects; a reimagination of public space from Civic Square; infrastructure for Kuba textile artisans in the studio of Kilubukila; museum preservation's tense meeting with biomaterials in Aléa Work’s Dirty chair; a careful balance of childhood freedom and parental control in Jon Marshall’s smartphone alternative; 63 years of papier-mâché protest in the performances of Bread and Puppet; and RK Collective’s activist stadium bucket seats, made from discarded Iranian headscarves.

Disegno #42 is released in September 2026.

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