designum 1/2026

A broad look at what design really is.

This issue of Slovak magazine Designum moves across scales and disciplines: from handmade craft to digital production, from small visual identities to large public works, from exhibitions to museum collections. It shows design not as a fixed field, but as a system that depends on care, context, and support.

Inside, you’ll find interviews, essays, and critical reflections on contemporary practice: Ivana Palečková on photography and her design work, Veronika Selingerová’s ceramic reliefs for Bratislava’s ZWIRN, or how digital technologies reshape fashion and communication. There’s also a look at the Trnava Poster Triennial and its political themes, and transmediale as a platform for questioning technology.

It also expands into museum and historical context: a critical look at the Slovak Design Museum’s new exhibition, reflections on publishing through Ľubomír Longauer’s book series, and thoughts on interior design as something shaped by use itself.

Designum is a Slovak design magazine with over 30 years of history, focused on contemporary local design, theory, reflections, and design history.