When did you last earmark a page or plunge nose-deep into a magazine to inhale the heady scent of freshly printed ink? In the age of Snapchat and clickbait, these moments are few and far between. But independent magazines have created a trend for a new kind of optimized content: print products where the medium is just as important as the message.
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Don’t Miss: “Dior and I”
Under the empathetic lens of Dior and I director Frédéric Tcheng, the elite and occasionally ostentatious world of high fashion comes secondary to the documentary’s universally compelling tale: that of a leader with a creative vision, a legacy to uphold, and a loyal and skillful team backing him.
Read MoreHospital Rooms
When London-based curator Niamh White and artist Tim A Shaw visited a close friend in an English psychiatric ward, they were immediately struck by the unit’s sterility. As visually oriented people, they felt the austere interiors might not be conducive to a quick recovery, particularly for patients with creative or artistic inclinations.
Read MoreMini Living: a promotional editorial
Disegno Magazine worked with Mini to write a story on the design installation Mini Living: Do Disturb, which was shown at the design fair Salone Del Mobile in Milan this year. Mini worked together with the Japanese architecture studio ON Design and the engineering firm Arup to create an alternative design of cohabitation in a limited space.
Read MoreThe keepers of the books
Stowed in banana boxes or safeguarded in freezers: As ISIS ransacks libraries in Iraq, Camilla Sterne looks back on the lengths people have gone to preserve the world’s valuable archives. Final project for Magazine Journalism Masters at City University London.
Read MoreVitra Design Museum opens new exhibition space showcasing classics
Germany’s Vitra Design Museum has opened a new archive and exhibition space called Schaudepot, which brings the gallery’s 7,000 piece collections out of storage and into public view.
Read MoreThe changing libraryness of libraries
As funding cuts sound the knell for UK branch libraries, a new breed is emerging worldwide. What do these modern marvels say about the role of contemporary libraries? Final project for Masters in Magazine Journalism at City University London.
Read MoreMore is More
Wataru Tominaga’s clothing designs are brazen. They have a sense of childlike abandon — the sort of outlandish shapes a youngster might concoct when set loose with a handful of markers and a giant notepad.
Read MoreThe Eighth Wonder of the World
The Brunel Museum opens a music venue and exhibit space in the historic Thames Tunnel, thanks to a staircase and doorway engineered by London architecture firm Tate Harmer.
Read MoreThe Spectre of Milan: Marco de Vincenzo
For the 2016 iteration of Milan’s Salone del Mobile, Disegno created a large format newspaper that shares oral histories about Milan’s place in design lore.
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