‘Alternative Devices’, Disegno #42 (2026).

Image: Kane Hulse.

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‘Metamorphosis’, Disegno #42 (2026).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Beautiful Is Their Glance’, Disegno #41 (2026).

Image: Roel van Tour.

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‘Put Keyaki In Their Special Chair’, Disegno #41 (2026).

Image: Masahiro Sambe.

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‘Horse Sense’, Disegno #41 (2026).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Panels Slide; Secret Doors Open; Sights Appear’, Disegno #40 (2025).

Image: courtesy of NGV.

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‘Freedom Through Constraint’, Disegno #40 (2025).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Through A Glass Darkly’, Disegno #39 (2025).

Image: Studio Brynjar & Veronika.

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‘Surviving What?’, Disegno #39 (2025).

Image: Etienne Malapert.

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‘The Courage of the Cucumber’, Disegno #39 (2025).

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‘Thirsty’, Disegno #38 (2024).

Image: Jasmine Deporta.

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‘Give Us This Day Our Daily Watts’, Disegno #38 (2024).

Image: Kane Hulse.

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‘Mementos’, Disegno #38 (2024).

Image: Disegno.

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‘A Non-Light Light’, Disegno #37 (2024).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘Für Edward’, Disegno #37 (2024).

Image: Kristina Micotti.

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‘Unfinished’, Disegno #37 (2024).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Rising, Dancing, Twisting’, Design Reviewed #03 (2023).

Image: courtesy of Mathmos.

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‘In Praise of Faff’, Design Reviewed #03 (2023).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Control’, Disegno #36 (2023).

Image: courtesy of Apple.

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‘Motley’, Disegno #36 (2023).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘Less Volume, More Meaning’, Disegno #36 (2023).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘Notes of Mustard’, Disegno #36 (2023).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘The Scourge of Perfection’, Disegno #36 (2023).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Sugar/No-Sugar’, Design Reviewed #02 (2023).

Image: courtesy of PepsiCo.

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‘User Manual’, Design Reviewed #02 (2023).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Aggregate: A Composite Account’, Disegno #35 (2023).

Image: Donald Milne.

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‘A Quiet Cut’, Disegno #35 (2023).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘I Can Feel Your Anger’, Disegno #35 (2023).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Vacation, All I Never Wanted’, Design Reviewed #01 (2022).

Image: courtesy of Potato Head.

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‘The Doctor Will See You Now’, Design Reviewed #01 (2022).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Fibre to Form’, Disegno #34 (2022).

Image: Theresa Marx.

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‘Essential Forms’, Disegno #34 (2022).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘To Be Clear’, Disegno #34 (2022).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘Design Me Like One of Your Buff Boys’, Disegno #34 (2022).

Image: Disegno.

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‘A History of Swiss Aluminium’, Disegno #33 (2022).

Image: Rasmus Norlander.

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‘Mea Culpa’, Disegno #33 (2022).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Emeco Abides’, Disegno #32 (2022).

Image: Ramak Fazel.

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‘The Electric Ribbon Trick’, Disegno #32 (2022).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘Designing the Batman’, Disegno #32 (2022).

Image: Disegno.

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‘The Biodegradable Aphrodite’, Disegno #31 (2021).

Image: Theresa Marx.

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‘The Sugar Pot’, Disegno #31 (2021).

Image: Disegno.

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‘The Biggest Machine On Earth’, Disegno #30 (2021).

Image: Delfino Sisto Legnani.

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‘Happy Birthday’, Disegno #30 (2021).

Image: Disegno.

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‘What Lies Beneath’, Disegno #29 (2021).

Image: courtesy of SCP.

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‘Za, Naoto Fukasawa for Emeco’, Disegno #29 (2021).

Image: Choreo.

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‘Honext’, Disegno #29 (2021).

Image: Choreo.

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‘Swipe Right’, Disegno #29 (2021).

Image: Disegno.

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‘The Only Thing Left to Design is the Foot’, Disegno #28 (2021).

Image: Daniel Rybakken.

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‘OB-4 by Teenage Engineering’, Disegno #28 (2021).

Image: Choreo.

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‘Bell Chair by Konstantin Grcic for Magis’, Disegno #28 (2021).

Image: Choreo.

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‘One Star’, Disegno #28 (2021).

Image: Disegno.

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‘In the Circumstances’, Disegno #27 (2020).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Zoonotic Spaces’, Lockdown Paper (2020).

Image: Humberto and Fernando Campana.

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‘The Tourists’, Disegno #26 (2020).

Image: courtesy of NASA.

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‘Here In My Home’, Disegno #26 (2020).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Sustained Assault’, Disegno #25 (2019).

Image: courtesy of Nike.

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‘Goodbye Old Baby New Year’, Disegno #25 (2019).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Nested Betters’, Disegno #24 (2019).

Image: Daisy Alexandra Ginsberg.

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‘A Company Voyage’, Disegno #24 (2019).

Image: Juho Huttunen.

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‘My Pretty Peacock’, Disegno #24 (2019).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Don’t Cross the Streams’, Disegno #23 (2019).

Image: Ugo La Pietra.

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‘Business as Usual’, Disegno #23 (2019).

Image: Disegno.

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‘The Good Neighbour Idea’, Disegno #22 (2019).

Image: Jermaine Francis.

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‘Tetris Effect’, Disegno #22 (2019).

Image: courtesy of Enhance.

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‘Material Liberation Front’, Disegno #22 (2019).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Du français au russe en français’, Disegno #21 (2018).

Image: Iittala.

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‘Soft Work by Barber & Osgerby for Vitra’, Disegno #21 (2018).

Image: Barber & Osgerby.

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‘You say “chair”, I say “wooden object shaped in such-and-such a way”’, Disegno #22 (2018).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Most Yellow Cars Tend to be Signal Yellow Cars’, Disegno #20 (2018).

Image: Jermaine Francis.

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‘The Kenneth Pint Glass’, Disegno #20 (2018).

Image: Camden Town Brewery.

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‘Strength Through Adverbsity’, Disegno #20 (2018).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Cities of Spectacle’, Disegno #19 (2018).

Image: Matthew Williams.

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‘Eventually Everything Connects’, Disegno #19 (2018).

Image: Ramak Fazel.

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‘Tears for a Cube’, Disegno #19 (2018).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Spring Cleaning’, Disegno #18 (2018).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Design on the Fly’, Disegno #17 (2017).

Image: Jörg Koopmann.

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‘Sit Tight for Citrus’, Disegno #17 (2017).

Image: Disegno.

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‘The Driver’, Disegno #16 (2017).

Image: Andrew Bush.

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‘What is New is Young’, Disegno #16 (2017).

Image: Disegno.

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‘A Blanketing Field of Cotton Poplin’, Disegno #15 (2017).

Image: Murray Ballard.

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‘The Glitch’, Disegno #15 (2017).

Image: El Ultimo Grito.

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‘A Matter of Definitions’, Disegno #15 (2017).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Alternative Facts’, Disegno #14 (2017).

Image: Nama Khalil.

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‘Fake News!’, Disegno #14 (2017).

Image: Disegno.

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‘Contextual Illumination’, Disegno #13 (2016).

Image: Delfino Sisto Legnani.

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‘Yellow Inflatable Jacket, S/S17 Balenciaga’, Disegno #13 (2016).

Image: Ayzit Bostan and Fabian Frinzel.

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‘YEV-104, Yamaha’, Disegno #13 (2016).

Image: Ayzit Bostan and Fabian Frinzel.

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‘The Collector of Cracks’, Disegno #13 (2016).

Image: Disegno.

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‘NikeLab Windrunner x Kim Jones’, Disegno #12 (2016).

Image: Studio AKFB.

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‘Panini Colette’, Disegno #12 (2016).

Image: Studio AKFB.

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‘KUFTwist by KUFstudios’, Disegno #12 (2016).

Image: Studio AKFB.

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‘Return to Sarajevo’, Disegno #11 (2016).

Image: Fabian Frinzel.

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‘Coat from Outside, A/W 16/17 Junya Watanabe Man’, Disegno #11 (2016).

Image: Studio AKFB.

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‘Ghosts and Other Functionalities’, Disegno #10 (2016).

Image: Albrecht Fuchs.

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‘Disparate Threads’, Disegno #09 (2015).

Image: Iwan Baan.

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‘Power Behind the Scenes’, Disegno #09 (2015).

Image: courtesy of Magis.

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‘A New Frontier’, Disegno #08 (2015).

Image: Nick Rochowski.

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‘Pagan Practice’, Disegno #08 (2015).

Image: Kalle Sanner.

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‘Century Camera’, Disegno #07 (2014).

Image: Jere Salonen.

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‘Wrapping Architecture’, Disegno #06 (2014).

Image: Mårta Thisner.

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‘Forest as Idea Generator’, Disegno #06 (2014).

Image: Amira Fritz.

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‘75 Watt in the Pearl River Delta’, Disegno #05 (2013).

Image: Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen.

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‘UN North Delegates Lounge’, Disegno #05 (2013).

Image: Frank Oudeman.

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‘Iceland Emerges’, Disegno #04 (2013).

Image: Glamour Et Cetera.

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‘The Fix’, Disegno #04 (2013).

Image: courtesy of Fixperts.

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‘New Technology’, Disegno #03 (2012).

Image: Colin Christie.

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‘Illuminations’, Disegno #03 (2012).

Image: Colin Christie.

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Oli Stratford Writer, editor and public speaker

Oli Stratford

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Oli Stratford
Writer, editor
and public speaker