Design Reviewed – Issue 2

The team behind Disegno is proud to announce Design Reviewed, a new biannual publication devoted to experiential writing around design and its users.

Each issue of Design Reviewed contains 10 essays in which writers get hands-on with design and its various manifestations in the world. The texts are not qualitative assessments of their subjects, but rather personal reflections on design and the contexts in which it operates.

The issue is structured around 10 different forms of design output: technology, ecology, media, object, body, system, interface, policy, space and phenomena. While these categories are not exhaustive, they aim to provide a structuring principle for a discipline that is increasingly diffuse and varied.

As sunshine, sweat and unbearably hot buses mark the arrival of summer at Disegno’s HQ, we are turning our fans on full-blast, settling down on flat-packed furniture with cooling cans of something fizzy, and dipping into the new edition of Design Reviewed.

Travelling from the Amazon rainforest to Tokyo’s public toilets, from a Munich-based manufactory to Chicago’s streets and suburbs, and from 1980s USA to contemporary London’s grassroots football pitches, the issue contains 10 essays in which writers get hands-on with design and its various manifestations in the world.