Disegno Magazine No. 9

Exposé

A photoessay about Uruguay’s female wool workers • Jasper Morrison’s dumbphone • Understanding furniture design with Magis’s Eugenio Perazza • Mats Rombaut’s ethical footwear • A return to Villa le Lac • Welcoming the corporations to creative Berlin • 3D-printed fashion from Bruno Pieters • The story behind Michael Graves’s 9093 bird kettle

Features

Furniture design and e-commerce • Peter Pilotto’s break from digital fashion design • The history of Robin Day’s Polypropylene chair • Architecture and art in Senegal’s far east • An Adolf Loos essay about changing feet and footwear • Toronto’s burgeoning transport infrastructure • An essay on the design potential of shit

Forecast

Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec on the wonder of screens • Michael Anastassiades enters furniture design • Designing for yachts with Konstantin Grcic • Chicago’s Architecture Biennial • Saint Laurent’s maison de couture • A letter from austerity-struck Athens

The Disegno Residency

2°C
New methods for communicating climate change, with contributions from Marjan van Aubel, Sam Baron, Maria Blaisse, Ilona Gaynor, Ross Lovegrove, Neri & Hu, Parsons & Charlesworth, PearsonLloyd, Universal Design Studio and Dominic Wilcox

Disegno Magazine is aimed at those who are hungry for updates on architecture, design and fashion. The three aspects of vanity are very neatly compiled into one very special magazine and it is the most sought out magazine as it graces the stands only twice in a year. The magazine has inspired a legion of architecture, interior designers and fashion designers for many years – it is revered by the designing community in the world. The magazine has beautiful and explanatory illustrations of the latest architectural masterpieces erected across the world which is usually followed up by the input of the chief architecture and views of a critic at the end of it. The fashion section is a true fest for the eyes and gives the reader essential information regarding the hottest trends in the market. There are numerous interviews of the top fashion designers of the world and their take on the dying fashion, the latest fabric in use and other related areas. Featuring a section which answers the questions asked by you, these queries are answered by the esteemed line-up of contributors to the magazine. A must have for every design enthusiast!