A roundtable between Deyan Sudjic, Justin McGuirk, John Pawson, and Morag Myerscough about the making of London’s new Design Museum; Samsung and Apple grapple over design patents in the US Supreme Court; field notes on the singular urbanism of the refugee camps of Western Sahara; a report on redesigning money in the age of immaterial cash; archival material from Alexander Girard’s childhood utopia; George Sowden’s plans to retire the lightbulb; a photoessay exploring the cultural landscape of Dionysos, a marble quarry outside Athens; portraits for political conciliation with Faye Toogood; a conversation between Zowie Broach and Sam Jacob about the future of design education; a special project on perception in design by Laureline Galliot by way of A.A. Milne; reflections on the limitations of the limitless procedural generation of No Man’s Sky; unpacking vulgarity at the Barbican Art Gallery.
