India Block

The summer 2023 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, this issue contains ten essays in which writers get hands-on with design and its various manifestations in the world. The texts offer personal reflections on design and the contexts in which it operates, but are not intended as qualitative assessments of their subjects. We hope they make you chuckle, ponder and perhaps even tug at your sun-warmed heartstrings. Our second issue includes essays by Nathan Ma, Piti Koshimura, Michael David Mitchell, Simón Ballen Botero, Adrienne Brown, Natalie Kane, Ann Morgan, as well as Disegno s India Block, Lara Chapman and Oli Stratford. It has been designed by Jonas Hirschmann, with creative direction from Studio AKFB.

The team behind Disegno: A Quarterly Journal of Design 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 ten 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. This issue is structured around ten 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. In contrast to Disegno s journal format, Design Reviewed is a smaller, more book-like publication, which takes its cue from publications such as field guides, jotters and technical manuals. It is a publication designed to be portable and handy, with a cream dust jacket to help protect it during journeys. While Disegno will be reserved for long-form reporting, in-depth interviews, and emerging project stories, Design Reviewed will be a space for reflection on design as its users experience it